Dr. Lex Kravitz received a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an Associate Professor in the Psychiatry Department at Washington University in St Louis. His research focuses on how obesity alters the brain, and in particular those brain areas that govern decision making and behavioral selection. In addition to this specific research interest, he has a passion for developing and sharing open-source hardware for neuroscience research, co-founding the website OpenBehavior.org to highlight advances in open source methods for behavioral neuroscience. Most recently he has begun investigating the intersection of open-source hardware, Internet-of-Things data collection, and open-science practices to advance a vision of a fully open and traceable research pipeline from hypothesis to answer.
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