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Principal Investigator

David Kleinfeld, Ph.D.

Contact Information

dk@physics.ucsd.edu
 
office: 858-822-0342
 
lab: 858-534-3562
 
fax: 858-534-7697


Curriculum Vitae

Education

1984
 

1984
 
 
 
 

1977
 

1976

The Neurobiology Summer School, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, University of California at San Diego. Dissertation: On the Dynamics of Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers (with Prof. George Feher).

Master of Science, Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (High Honors), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Senior Thesis: Growth of Ionization Tracts in Pulsed Microwave Fields.


Academic Positions

2008-
present

2002-08

1998 -
present

1997 -
present

1996-98

1984
 

1977-79,
1981-84

Senior Fellow, Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational Biology, Salk Institute, La Jolla

Affiliated Member, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD.

Professor of Physics, UCSD.
 

Affiliated Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, UCSD.

Associate Professor of Physics, UCSD.

Postgraduate Research Physicist, Department of Physics, UCSD.

Research Assistant, Department of Physics, UCSD.


Industrial Positions

1986-95
 

1985
 

1974

Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ.

Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Intern, Accelerator Division, Argonne National Laboratories.


Other Professional Positions

 

2008
 
 

2007
 

2007 - 10
 

2007 - 11
 
 

2007
 

2006
 
 
 
 

2004 - 08
 

2004
 
 

2003
 
 

2003
 

2003, 04
 
 

2003
 

2003 - 07
 
 
 
 
 

2003
 
 
 

2002 - 06
 
 
 

2002
 
 

2001
 
 
 
 

2001
 
 
 
 

1998 - 02, 08
 

1997 - 00
 
 

1993 - 97
 
 
 

1993
 

1990, 02
 

1988, 94
 

1988
 
 

1986, 92,
97, 01, 03,
04, 08

 

Faculty, Society for Neuroscience Short Course on "Neural Signal Processing: Quantitative Analysis of Neural Activity", DC.

Visiting faculty, “Fifth Summer School on Computational Neuroscience”, Goettingen.

Member, Sensorimotor Integration (SMI) study section, NIH Center for Scientific Review

Co-Director (with Prof. Partha Mitra), "Neuroinformatics Summer School", Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.

Symposium Organizer, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Co-Organizer, "Dynamical Neuroscience XIV", National Institute for Mental Health Satellite Symposium, (with Dr. Dennis Glanzman and Profs. Emery Brown, Rob Kass and Partha Mitra), Atlanta Convention Center.

Founding Member and Program Committee, "The Barrels Society"

Program Committee, "Optical Techniques in Neuroscience", OSA Topical Meeting, Miami Beach, FL.

Symposium Organizer, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Steering Committee, "Bio Conference II", American Physical Society, San Diego, CA.

Visiting Faculty, "Methods in Computational Neuroscience" Summer School, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.

Visiting Lecturer, Summer School in Theoretical Physics, Les Houches, France.

Co-Instructor, "Imaging Structure & Function in the Nervous System" Summer School (with Profs. Fritjof Helmchen, Timothy Murphy, Martin Oheim, Florian Engert, Mark Huebener and Jack Waters), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY.

Program Committee, Commercial and Biomedical Applications of Ultrafast Lasers V, Photonics West, San Jose Convention Center, CA.

Visiting Faculty and Co-Founder (with Profs. Emery Brown and Partha Mitra), "Neuroinformatics Summer School", Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.

Visiting Scientist and Member of the External Advisory Committee, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University.

Co-Organizer, "Dynamical Neuroscience IX", National Institute for Mental Health Satellite Symposium, (with Dr. Dennis Glanzman and Profs. H. Sebastian Seung and Misha Tsodyks), San Diego Convention Center.

Co-Director, "Dynamics of Neural Networks: From Biophysics to Behavior", Research Program (with Profs. H. Sebastian Seung and Misha Tsodyks), The Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB.

Visiting Faculty, "Imaging Structure & Function in the Nervous System", Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY.

Co-Organizer, "Analysis of Neural Data" Work Group (with Dr. Partha P. Mitra), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.

Co-Director, "Methods in Computational Neuroscience" Summer School, (with Prof. David W. Tank), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.

Board of Scientific Advisors, Reuben H. Fleet Space and Science Museum, San Diego, CA.

Visiting Scientist, The Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO.

Visiting Scientist, The Racah Institute for Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

University Lecturer, "Associative Neural Nets in Computing", Case Western Reserve University, OH.

Visiting Scientist, The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB.



 
 
 
 
 
 

Date Modified: 5/2008

David Kleinfeld, PhD
Physics Department
UC San Diego
dk@physics.ucsd.edu