Thilo Womelsdorf

Thilo Womelsdorf is currently a Professor with the Department of Psychology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, where he leads the Attention Circuits Control Laboratory. His research investigates how neural circuits learn and control attentional allocation in non-human primates and humans. Before arriving with Vanderbilt University, he led the Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, York University, Toronto, receiving in 2017 the prestigious E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship for his work bridging the cell- and network-levels of understanding how brain activity dynamics relate to behavior.