Vijay Mohan K. Namboodiri is assistant professor of neurology at University of California, San Francisco. His lab studies the neuronal network mechanisms underlying learning, memory and decision-making in both health and disease. Early work from his lab has focused on the algorithmic basis of associative learning and dopaminergic brain mechanisms underlying such learning.
Namboodiri earned his B.Tech in engineering physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, after which he earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, working with Marshall Hussain Shuler. Subsequently, he did a postdoctoral fellowship with Garret Stuber at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Washington.
