Adrienne Fairhall | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | Australian National University, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Known for | Dynamic Neural Computation Circuit Dynamics Neural Coding |
| Awards | Allen Distinguished Investigator Burroughs-Wellcome Fellow McKnight Scholar Sloan Fellow Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Neuroscience |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Doctoral advisor | Itamar Procaccia |
Adrienne Fairhall is a University Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and an adjunct Professor in the Departments of Physics and Applied Mathematics, as well as the director of the Computational Neuroscience Program at the University of Washington.
Fairhall is primarily known for her work on dynamic neural computation, particularly the interplay between cellular and circuit dynamics and coding, and she has received numerous awards for her work in the field including a Sloan Fellowship, a McKnight Scholar Award, a Burroughs-Wellcome Careers at the Scientific Interface Fellowship, and an Allen Distinguished Investigator award. In 2022, she was a Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.
Fairhall leads a theory group at the University of Washington.[1]