Low-level multisensory processes: from the impact of early life experience to the prediction of higher-order cognition
Location: Lecture Hall - 4/10/24, 10:50 AM - 4/10/24, 11:20 AM (US/Eastern) (30 minutes)

Micah M. Murray
Professor, Scientific and Academic Director at The Sense Innovation and Research Center, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne
Professor, Scientific and Academic Director at The Sense Innovation and Research Center, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne

Micah M. Murray is an American-Swiss neuroscientist. He earned a double BA from The Johns Hopkins University (1995). In 2002, he received his PhD with honors in neuroscience from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University Hospital of Geneva, he was recruited in 2003 to the University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Switzerland (CHUV-UNIL) for a faculty position. 

He holds an adjunct professorship at Vanderbilt University. He is the founding director of the Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysiology and served as the EEG section head of the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging (2007-2023). He is the laureate of awards including from the Leenaards Foundation, the Swiss Society for Biological Psychiatry, and the Swiss Brain League. Most recently, Professor Murray has conceived and established The Sense Innovation and Research Center, which is a joint venture of CHUV-UNIL and the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO) Valais/Wallis.

Professor Murray serves as The Sense’s founding Scientific and Academic Director, which currently includes 18 principal investigators and their teams. Professor Murray’s research focuses on developing brain imaging and mapping methods as well as their applications in both health and disease across the human lifespan.