Lisa Giocomo.

Lisa Giocomo

Professor of neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Lisa Giocomo is professor of neurobiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her lab focuses on neural circuits underlying spatial navigation and memory, and how the brain’s internal map of space adapts to changes in the environment and shifts with an animal’s behavior or task goals.

She earned a B.A. in psychology at Baylor University and completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Boston University in the lab of Michael Hasselmo. Following her doctoral work, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Norway with Edvard and May-Britt Moser. She established her own lab at Stanford in 2013.

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