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Joseph Anthony Movshon Center for Neural Science 100 Bleecker Street, Apt 30D New York University New York, NY 10012, USA 4 Washington Place, Room 809 New York, NY 10003, USA Phone: +1 212-998-7880 +1 212-260-6535 Fax: +1 212-995-4183 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/corefaculty/Movshon.php Date of birth: 10 December 1950 Place of birth: New York, NY, USA Nationality: USA Education 1955–1968 The Browning School, New York, NY, USA 1968–1969 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1969–1975 Churchill College, University of Cambridge 1972 B. A. (Honours) 1972–1975 Research Student, The Psychological Laboratory, University of Cambridge 1975 Ph. D. (Supervisor: Colin Blakemore) Dissertation: Plasticity of Binocular Organization in the Kitten's Visual System 1976 M. A. Honors 1972–1975 Research Training Scholarship, The Wellcome Trust 1977–1981 Research Fellowship in Neuroscience, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 1980–1985 Research Career Development Award, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health 1985 Young Investigator Award, Society for Neuroscience 1985–1986 Visiting Fellowship, All Souls College, Oxford 1985–1986 Royal Society Guest Research Fellowship, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford 1985–1986 Senior International Fellowship, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health 1986 Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities 1992 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics 1993 Herman and Margaret Sokol Faculty Award, New York University 1993 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1996 Lamport Lectureship, University of Washington, Seattle 1999 Presidential Professorship, New York University 2000 W. R. Bauer Foundation Lectureship, Brandeis University 2002 Silver Professorship, New York University Movshon 1 11/12/18 2006 A. J. Carlson Lectureship, University of Chicago 2006 Fellow, Association for Psychological Science 2007 Rank Prize Funds Lectureship, European Conference on Visual Perception 2008 Member, National Academy of Sciences 2009 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2010 Member, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives 2010 Silver Fellow, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2010 António Champalimaud Vision Award 2011 University Professorship, New York University 2012 Sc. D. (Honoris Causa), State University of New York 2013 Karl Spencer Lashley Award, American Philosophical Society 2013 Golden Brain Award, Minerva Foundation 2013–present Senior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows 2018 Crill Lectureship, University of Washington, Seattle Academic Positions (current positions in italic) 1975–1978 Assistant Professor of Psychology, New York University 1978–1984 Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University 1984–present Professor of Psychology, New York University 1987–present Professor of Neural Science, New York University 1999–2002 Presidential Professor, New York University 2002–present Silver Professor, New York University 2011–present University Professor, New York University 1987–1991, Director, Center for Neural Science, New York University 1993–1998, 2004–2016 2017–present Interim Director, Institute for Brain and Cognitive Science, NYU Shanghai 1990–2017 Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine 2017–present Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University School of Medicine 2017–present Professor of Ophthalmology, New York University School of Medicine 2017–present Investigator, Neuroscience Institute, New York University School of Medicine 1991–2003 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2014–present Non-Resident Fellow, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Research Interests Vision and visual development, neural computation. Teaching Experience 1972–1975 Tutorial and laboratory teaching of undergraduate students in psychology and physiology, University of Cambridge. 1975–present Teaching graduate and undergraduate students in psychology and neuroscience, New York University. Movshon 2 11/12/18 1985–1994 Founder and Organizer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course on Computational Neuroscience. Movshon 3 11/12/18 Learned Societies 1972–present American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS Fellow, 1993 1974–present Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Electrophysiology Section Committee, 1982–1983 Chair, Electrophysiology Section, 1984 Silver Fellow, 2010 1976–present Society for Neuroscience Program Committee, 1987–1991 (Chair, 1991) Information Technology Committee, 2006–2009 Swartz Prize Selection Committee, 2010–present Committee on Committees, 2011–present 1990–present Association for Psychological Science (American Psychological Society) APS Fellow, 2006 1996–present American Physiological Society 1999–present Cognitive Neuroscience Society Program Committee, 1999–2006 (Chair, 2005–2006) 2001–present Vision Sciences Society Program Review Board, 2001–2007 Board of Directors, 2007–2011 President, 2009–2010 2008–present National Academy of Sciences 2009–present American Academy of Arts and Sciences Professional Service National Institutes of Health, Visual Sciences B Study Section (1982–1987) Chair, NEI/DRG Workshop on Anesthesia and Paralysis in Experimental Animals, Bethesda, MD, 1984 (report published in Visual Neuroscience 1, 421–426, 1988). National Research Council, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, Committee on the Detection and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals (1988–1990) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Board of Trustees (1993–1998) National Eye Institute, Special Review Committee (1993–present), Board of Scientific Counselors (ad hoc member, 2006, 2010) National Science Foundation, Neuroscience Advisory Panel (2001–2004) National Institute of Mental Health, Board of Scientific Counselors (ad hoc member, 2001) Washington National Primate Research Center, National Scientific Advisory Board (2005, 2010– present) Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Neuroscience Fellowship Panel (1994–2000) The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Panel (1998–2004), Scholar Awards Panel (2009–2018), Board of Directors (2011– present), Vice-President (2018–present) James S. McDonnell Foundation, 21st Century Awards Panel (2000–2008) EJLB Foundation, Scientific Advisory Board (2001–2004) Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Advisory Panel for Career Awards in the Biomedical Sciences (2002–2007) Jewish Guild for the Blind, Bressler Prize Jury (2002–2004) Movshon 4 11/12/18 Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College, London, Quinquennial Review Committee (2005), Scientific Advisory Board (2006–2012) The Robert Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust, Scientific Review Board (2006–2009) The Simons Foundation, Scientific Advisory Board (2006–2014), Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain, Executive Committee (2012–present) The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee (2006) Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, Scientific Committee (2009–present) Center for Neural Circuits, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway, Scientific Advisory Board (2012–present) National Research Council, Panel on Human Research and Engineering at the Army Research Laboratory (2013–2016) Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, Florida, Scientific Advisory Board (2013–present) Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany, Scientific Advisory Board (2013–present) Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Scientific Advisory Board (2014–present) Research to Prevent Blindness, Scientific Advisory Panel (2015–present) Life Sciences Research Foundation, Peer Review Committee (2015, 2018) Infosys Science Foundation, Prize Jury in Life Sciences (2016–2018) Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, External Advisory Committee (2017–present) Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College, London, Governing Board (2017–present) Editorial Positions Annual Review of Neuroscience (Editorial Board, 1983–1987) Visual Neuroscience (Editorial Board, 1987–1989) Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Editorial Board, 1988–2003) Trends in Neurosciences (Advisory Editorial Board, 1993–1996) Network – Computation in Neural Systems (Executive Board, 1995–2003) Journal of Neuroscience (Associate Editor, 1996–2002) Journal of Vision (Editorial Board, 2000–present) Neuron (Editorial Board, 2007–present) Perception (Editorial Board, 2010–present) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Editorial Board, 2010–present) Annual Review of Vision Science (Founding Co-editor, 2013–present) Science Advances (Associate Editor, 2015–2016) Current Opinion in Neurobiology (Editorial Board, 2015–present) Movshon 5 11/12/18 Publications: Research Reports J. A. Movshon, B. E. I. Chambers and C. Blakemore (1972). Interocular transfer in normal humans, and those who lack stereopsis. Perception 1, 483–490. J. A. Movshon and C. Blakemore (1973). Orientation specificity and spatial selectivity in human vision. Perception 2, 53–60. C. Blakemore, M. Donaghy, L. Maffei, J. A. Movshon, D. Rose and R. C. Van Sluyters (1974). Evidence that nitrous oxide can maintain anaesthesia after induction with barbiturates. Journal of Physiology 237, 39–41P. J. A. Movshon (1974). Velocity preferences of simple and complex cells in the cat's striate cortex. Journal of Physiology 242, 121–123P. J. A. Movshon and C. Blakemore (1974). Functional reinnervation