Michael Peer
Michael joined the Computational Neuropsychiatry Lab at it’s foundation in 2012 after completing his B.Sc in Biology and Cognitive Sciences (magna cum laude) and M.Sc. in Parasitology (magna cum laude) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was awarded the Eshkol Scholarship from the Israel Ministry of Science for his PhD titled “Functional MRI Analyses in Neuropsychiatry”. Nowadays, he is a Fulbright & Zuckerman postdoctoral fellow at the Russell Epstein lab in the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on understanding how the brain represents large-scale environments. He is also interested in functional brain networks and their disturbances in neuropsychiatric disorders, and similarities between representation of space, time and social relations in the brain.
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