Rafael Yuste

Brainstormer, Buddhist, Doctor, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Inventor, Musician, Scientist, Technologist

Rafael Yuste is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Columbia University. He was born in Madrid, where he obtained his MD at the Universidad Autónoma. After working in Sydney Brenner's laboratory in Cambridge, UK, he performed Ph.D. studies with Larry Katz in Torsten Wiesel’s laboratory at Rockefeller University and was a postdoctoral student of David Tank at Bell Labs. In 1996 he joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where he currently is Full Professor. In 2005 he became HHMI Investigator and co-director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Circuits and in 2014 Director of the Neurotechnology Center at Columbia. Yuste is interested in understanding the function and pathology of the cerebral cortex, using calcium imaging and optogenetics to “break the code” and decipher the communication between groups of neurons. Yuste has obtained many awards for his work, including those from New York City Mayor's, the Society for Neuroscience and the NIH Director, and is member of Spain’s Royal Academies of Science and Medicine. Yuste also led the researchers who proposed the Brain Activity Map, precursor to the BRAIN initiative, and is currently involved in helping to launch a global BRAIN Project and a Neuroethical Guidelines Commission.

Understanding the brain Historical Memory Mountain Climbing Basque Country

The necessity of ethical guidelines for Neurotechnologies and AI

Ethics, Neuroscience

This is my first TED conference

Music