Rate My Professor Andrew Huberman

Andrew Huberman is a tenured associate professor of neurobiology and of ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he directs the Huberman Lab. He also holds a courtesy appointment in psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Huberman earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998, an M.A. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Davis in 2004. He completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University from 2005 to 2010. Prior to returning to Stanford, he served as assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego from 2011 to 2015. His research has focused on brain development, the neuroscience of visual perception and repair, neural mechanisms of stress and resilience, and neural plasticity. Huberman’s work has resulted in numerous publications in journals including Nature, Cell, Neuron, and Science. He has received awards such as the Cogan Award for Contributions to Vision Science and Ophthalmology in 2017, the Pew Biomedical Scholar Award from 2013 to 2017, the McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award from 2013 to 2016, the Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2006 to 2009, and the Allan G. Marr Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation in 2005. Huberman teaches neuroanatomy to Stanford medical students and has served on editorial boards of journals including Current Biology, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, The Journal of Neuroscience, and Cell Reports. He has participated in multiple faculty search and tenure review committees at Stanford and UC San Diego, chaired the Wu-Tsai Neurosciences Seminar Committee, and contributed to NIH grant review panels. Huberman has delivered over 100 invited seminars and co-directed a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course on vision.