Andrew Leifer

Andrew Leifer is associate professor of physics and neuroscience at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 2012. Prior to that, from 2007 to 2012, he was the NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Program in Biophysics and Department of Physics at Harvard University. He received a Lewis-Sigler Fellowship to form his own independent research group, the Leifer Lab, at Princeton University, which focuses on neuroscience and the brain, especially how collections of neurons work together to receive information from the environment, encode that information, and then process it to generate purposeful behavior. He is an Investigator in the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain and a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award and the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award.

Andrew M. Leifer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, specializing in biophysics, neuroscience, and neural circuits. His research focuses on understanding behavior and neural mechanisms in C. elegans, utilizing advanced imaging and optogenetic techniques. Leifer's work explores how neural activity translates into behavior, with a particular emphasis on locomotion and sensory processing. His studies integrate computational models with experimental approaches to decode the neural basis of complex behaviors. By combining large-scale neural recordings with behavioral analysis, he investigates how neural circuits generate and control behavior in simple organisms. His research has significant implications for understanding neural dynamics and circuit function.