Bradley Dickerson.

Bradley Dickerson

Assistant professor
Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Bradley Dickerson is assistant professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. His research is at the interface of neurobiology, biomechanics and behavior and seeks to understand how mechanosensory input structures locomotor output.

He earned his B.A. in biology at Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. in biology at the University of Washington, where he studied the collection and processing of sensory information in insect wings. As a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology, he continued to use insect flight as a model for neural circuit function. He started his lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019 and moved to the Princeton Neuroscience Institute in 2022.

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