Yuta is a systems neuroscientist interested in how the brain’s internal model of the world emerges from complex interactions within neuronal circuits and from the dynamic interplay between the brain and the external environment. He is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and will launch his lab in January 2025. His lab will be part of the NUIN program.

Education and Training

2018-2024   Postdoc, University of California, San Francisco
Mentor: Dr. Massimo Scanziani

2012-2018   Ph.D., New York University
Mentor: Dr. György Buzsáki

2006-2012   M.D., Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
Mentors: Drs. Shuh Narumiya, Tomoyuki Furuyashiki

Awards and Honors

2024   Winter Brain Panel Travel Fellowship

2023   NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)

2019   NYU Sackler Outstanding Dissertation Award

2018   Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship

2012   The Nakajima Foundation Fellowship