Boards and Committees

Governing Board

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee 2025 Meeting

Outreach and Training Committee 2025 Meeting

Program Committee 2025 Meeting

Poster Committee 2025 Meeting

Symposium Committee 2025 Meeting

Young Investigator Awards Committee 2025

Founding Committee (1994)

CNS Trainee Association (CNSTA)

Administrative Staff

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Governing Board

• Marie Banich, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
• Roberto Cabeza, Ph.D., Duke University
• Marta Kutas, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
• George R. Mangun, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• Patti Reuter-Lorenz, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Daniel Schacter, Ph.D., Harvard University

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee 2025 Meeting

• Audrey Duarte, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin (Co-Chair)
• Brad Postle, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, (Co-Chair)
• Taraz Lee, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Amy Proskovec, Ph.D., UT Southwestern
• Preston Thakral, Ph.D., Smith College

Outreach and Training Committee 2025 Meeting

• Bradley Voytek, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (Chair)

Program Committee 2025 Meeting

• Sabine Kastner, Ph.D., Princeton University (Chair)
• Michael Anderson, Ph.D., University of Cambridge ( Past Chair)
• David Badre, Ph.D., Brown University
• Christian Doeller, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute
• Kevin LaBar, Ph.D., Duke University
• Micah Murray, Ph.D., Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Matt Lambon Ralph, Ph.D., University of Cambridge
• Alison Preston, Ph.D., UT Austin

Poster Committee 2025 Meeting

• Elisabetta Ambron, PhD., University of Pennsylvania (Chair)
• James Antony, Ph.D., California Polytechnic State University
• Ian Ballard, Ph.D., UC Berkley
• Hossein Karimi, Ph.D., Mississippi State University
• Anastasia Kiyonaga, Ph.D., UCSD
• Aaron Kucyi, Ph.D., Drexel University
• Ian M. McDonough, Ph.D., Binghampton University
• Carmen Westerberg, Ph.D., Texas State University

Symposium Committee 2025 Meeting

• Lucia Melloni, Ph.D., Max-Planck-Institute (Chair)
• Evangelia G. Chrysikou, Ph.D., Drexel University
• Olivier Collignon, Ph.D., UCLouvain
• Amy Overman, Ph.D., Xavier University
• Marcela Pena Garay, Ph.D., Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
• Sepideh Sadaghiani, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Juha Silvanto, Ph.D., University of Surrey
• Mark Wallace, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Young Investigator Awards Committee 2025

• Catherine Hartley, Ph.D., New York University (Chair)
• Ella Striem-Amit, Ph.D., Georgetown University Medical Center
• Freek Van Ede, Ph.D., VU University Amsterdam
• Joel Voss, Ph.D., University of Chicago
• Tor Wager, Ph.D., Dartmouth College

Founding Committee (1994)

• Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
• George R. Mangun, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• Steve Pinker, Ph.D., Harvard University
• Patti Reuter-Lorenz, Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Daniel Schacter, Ph.D., Harvard University
• Art Shimamura, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

CNS Trainee Association (CNSTA)

• Lauren Homann, Ph.D., University of Toronto (President)
• Sophie Allen, Ph.D., Yale University
• Patrick Bloniasz, Ph.D., Boston University
• Nichole Bouffard, Ph.D., Washington University
• Christian Cazares, Ph.D., UCSD

Administrative Staff

• Kate Tretheway, Executive Director
• Sangay Wangmo, Administrative Assistant

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