Doris Tsao

Doris Tsao is a professor of biology at the University of California Berkeley and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She joined UC Berkeley in 2021 and prior to that was professor at Caltech from 2009 to 2021. She studied biology and mathematics at Caltech as an undergraduate and received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard in 2002. Her central interest is in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying vision. Her lab seeks to understand how visual objects are represented in the brain and how these representations are used to guide behavior. Her lab is investigating mechanisms at multiple stages in the visual hierarchy, from early processes for segmenting visual input into discrete objects, to mid- and high-level perceptual processes for assigning meaningful identity to specific objects, to processes by which these perceptual representations govern behavior.

Tsao has received numerous awards and honors, including the Eppendorf and Science International Prize in Neurobiology in 2006, the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2012, the Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation in 2014, and the Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize in 2018. Tsao was named an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 2015, a MacArthur fellow in 2018, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. She received the Kavli prize for neuroscience in 2024. To learn more visit here.

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