Misha Tsodyks

Although memory is subjective and colored by experience, a team of researchers, led by Weishun Zhong, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Member in Biology in the School of Natural Sciences, and Misha Tsodyks, C. V. Starr Professor in the School, have discovered that our brains share a universal mathematical structure for memory organization. Their findings bridge the disciplines of physics and neuroscience, revealing potential applications ranging from AI to memory disorder treatment.

John J. Hopfield, Visiting Professor (2010–13) in the School of Natural Sciences, was named a recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” He remains active within the Institute’s Simons Center for Systems Biology, which concentrates on research at the interface of molecular biology and the physical sciences.

Misha Tsodyks, C.V. Starr Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has been recognized by the Society of Neuroscience for "publishing many ground-breaking papers that overturned the dominant thinking of the time."

With the opening of the academic year on September 23, the Institute for Advanced Study welcomes an extraordinary group of new Faculty—Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Jacob Lurie, Alondra Nelson, Jim Stone, and Misha Tsodyks—who bring new fields and depth...

Michail “Misha” Tsodyks, a world-leading theoretical neuroscientist, will join the Faculty of the School of Natural Sciences as C.V. Starr Professor in the Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study, effective July 1, 2019...