Dr. Jeffrey Schall

Biography

Jeffrey Schall is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of visual neurophysiology. He earned his PhD in anatomy from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1986 and completed postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has received funding from the National Eye Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Schall's scholarly achievements have been honored with awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the James S. McDonnell Foundation, as well as the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. He received the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of both the Association for Psychological Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2019, he served as president of the Vision Science Society. Schall is also the Canada Research Chair in Translating Neuroscience and is a core member of the Centre for Vision Research and the Centre for Integrative & Applied Neuroscience at York University, which is part of the Canada Research Excellence Fund initiative Connected Minds: Neural Machine Systems and Healthy Societies. He is the inaugural scientific director of the York University Visual Neurophysiology Centre. Schall's highly collaborative research aims to understand how the brain guides, controls, and monitors behavior, addressing fundamental questions through neurophysiological and electrophysiological data to seek explanations at neural, biophysical, and computational levels.

Research Interests