Jacqueline Gottlieb

Jacqueline Gottlieb is Professor of Neuroscience in the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Institute for Mind Brain and Behavior at Columbia University. She completed her education at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Yale University and the National Institute of Health, and she joined the Columbia Faculty in 2001. Dr Gottlieb is an internationally renowned expert on the neural mechanisms of attention and decision making, and the recipient of numerous awards including the McKnight Scholarship, Klingenstein Fellowship, and Human Frontiers research grants. Her work pioneers the study of active information sampling and curiosity, which she investigates using behavioral, computational and neurophysiological methods. A central goal of her research is to understand cognition as an adaptive process, whereby the brain dynamically allocates its resources to best serve the demands of a decision situation.