Dr. Verstynen received his Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Berkeley and went on to do
postdoctoral training in computational neuroscience at UCSF and cognitive neuroscience at
the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon
University in the Department of Psychology and the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience
Institute, with a cross appointment in Biomedical engineering. Dr. Verstynen directs the
Cognitive Axon Lab, where he studies decision-making and learning. He is also the Co-
Director of the CMU-Pitt BRIDGE Center, a research dedicated MRI center with a strong
emphasis on computational neuroimaging. Along with his research, Dr. Verstynen also
engages in various science outreach projects, most notably using zombies to teach
neuroscience in the book Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? that he co-authored with Dr.
Bradley Voytek at UCSD.
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