Nick Steinmetz

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington in Seattle, and a member of the International Brain Laboratory. Before starting my own lab I completed a PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford University, studying visual attention with Tirin Moore and Kwabena Boahen. As a postdoc at University College London I worked on Neuropixels probe development and distributed coding in the mouse brain, with Kenneth Harris and Matteo Carandini.

My lab works on the neural circuits and systems underlying perception and cognition across the brain. We combine large-scale electrophysiology using Neuropixels probes, calcium imaging across the cortex, and systematic optogenetic manipulation, with behavioral tasks precise enough to model. This work has been recognised with a Pew Biomedical Scholar award, a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience, and an NSF CAREER award.