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Dr. Jeffrey D. Schall

Professor of Biology

Director, Visual Neurophysiology Center

Professor Schall joined York University in the Department of Biology in 2021. Previously, he was at Vanderbilt University, where he was a professor in the Department of Psychology and the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience.

Schall was founding director of the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience since 2000. From 1998 to 2015 he also directed the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center during which he oversaw staff, services, and trainees to facilitate vision and eye research across departments and schools at Vanderbilt.

Schall is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of visual neurophysiology. He earned his PhD in anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine (1986) and subsequently completed postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has been supported by grants from the National Eye Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and now the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

Schall's scholarly accomplishments have been recognized with awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the James S. McDonnell Foundation and the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. He also received the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was president of the Vision Science Society for its 2019 meeting.

At York, Schall is a core member of the Centre for Vision Research and of the Vision: Science to Application (VISTA) program, funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. He is the inaugural scientific director of the York University Visual Neurophysiology Centre.

Current Graduate Students

Steven Errington (co-mentored with Geoff Woodman), Vanderbilt University

Beatriz Herrera (co-mentored with Jorge Riera), Florida International University

Wanyi Lu, York University

Pranavan Thirunavukkarasu, York University

Jacob Westerberg (co-mentored with Alex Maier), Vanderbilt University

Postdoctoral Researchers

Ben Corrigan, York University

Hamidreza Ramezanpour (co-mentored with Mazyar Fallah and Kohitij Kar), York University

Amirsaman Sajad, Vanderbilt University

Michelle Schall, Research Associate & Lab Manager

Harry Parmar, Queens University (co-mentored with Martin Paré)

Rivka van Klei, York University

Rebecca Werner, York University

Coauthors

Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University

Jean Bullier Université Claude Bernard - Lyon

Roger Carpenter Gonville & Caius University of Cambridge

Vivien Casagrande Vanderbilt University

Michael E Goldberg Columbia University

Owen Jones Vanderbilt University

Ann Graybiel Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jon Kaas Vanderbilt University

Audie Leventhal University of Utah

Gordon Logan Vanderbilt University

Nikos Logothetis International Center for Primate Brain Research

Alexander Maier Vanderbilt University

Anne Morel University Hospital in Zurich

Doug Munoz Queen's University

Thomas Palmeri Vanderbilt University

Martin Paré Queen's University

Sohee Park Vanderbilt University

Jorge Riera Florida International University

Ueli Rutishauser Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Francis Shen University of Minnesota

Philip Smith The University of Melbourne

Geoff Woodman Vanderbilt University

Previous Trainees

Narcisse Bichot, Research Fellow, MIT

Joshua Brown, Professor, Indiana University

Leanne Boucher, Professor, Nova Southeastern University

Jeremiah Cohen, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University

Joshua Cosman, Director of Digital Health Strategy, AbbVie

Greg Cox, Assistant Professor, University at Albany

Jacob Elsey, Graduate Student, The Johns Hopkins University

Erik Emeric, Research Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University

Keisuke Fukuda, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga

Anna Garr, Lecuturer in Psychology, Belmont University

David Godlove, Solutions Architect, Ctrl IQ, Inc.

Doug Hanes, Executive Vice President Product Management & Pricing, National General Insurance

Richard Heitz, Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics Practice, Abbott Laboratories

Shigehiko Ito, Legal Associate, White & Case LLP

Chi-Hung Juan, Professor, National Central University, Taiwan

Min-Suk Kang, Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University

Kaleb Lowe, Senior Data Scientist at data.ai

Paul Middlebrooks, Brain Inspired Podcast

Aditya Murthy, Professor, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science

Matthew Nelson, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Taihei Ninomiya, Assistant Professor, National Institute for Physiological Sciences Okazaki, Japan

Pierre Pouget, Principal Investigator, L'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, France

Braden Purcell, Data Scientist at Squarespace

Supriya Ray, Assistant Professor, University of Allahabad

Thomas Reppert, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of the South

Amirsaman Sajad, Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai

Takashi Sato, Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina

Mathieu Servant, Associate Professor, University of Franche-Comté

Veit Stuphorn, Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University

Chenchal R. Subraveti, Sr. Application Developer, Vanderbilt University

Tracy L. Taylor, Professor, Dalhousie University

Katherine Thakkar, Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University

Kirk G. Thompson, Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, NIH

Geoff Woodman, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

Bram Zandbelt, Data Scientist, Nederlandse Spoorwegen