Presidential Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

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Supported in part by The Pew Charitable Trusts, Presidential Professorships are awarded to exceptional scholars of any rank who will contribute to the diverse experiences, perspectives, and eminence of Penn faculty. They were established in 2011 to strengthen the University’s ability to recruit, retain and mentor distinguished scholars who are preeminent in their fields and have demonstrated a commitment to sustaining an inclusive and vibrant academic community.


 

machado photoCurrent Chairholder 

Timothy Machado, PhD

Timothy Machado, PhD is a Presidential Assistant Professor of Neuroscience. His lab focuses on using multiregion neural recording techniques to study how circuits across the brain send commands to control movement during different behavioral states.

With graduate work at Columbia University and a post-doc in the Deisseroth Lab at Stanford, Dr. Machado is interested in understanding how descending pathways command the brainstem and spinal cord to initiate and modify movements—especially across different brain states (like hunger, thirst, and arousal). He also started a company called CTRL-labs that used ideas related to my doctoral work to build non-invasive technologies for decoding motor intention.