25 Facts About Paul Glimcher

Paul W Glimcher was born on November 3,1961 and is an American neuroeconomist, neuroscientist, psychologist, economist, scholar, and entrepreneur.

Paul Glimcher is considered to be an influential researcher in the study of human behavior and decision-making, and is known for his central role in founding and developing the field of neuroeconomics.

Paul Glimcher is responsible for neuroscience and physiology at the NYU School of Medicine.

Paul Glimcher was the lead editor of the textbook: Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, 2 edition.

Paul W Glimcher was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Arne and Mildred Glimcher.

In contrast to the artistic interests of his father, Paul Glimcher was interested in science and technology from an early age.

Paul Glimcher's was the first doctoral degree in neuroscience awarded by the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1994, Paul Glimcher began work as an assistant professor in neural science at New York University.

In 2006, Paul Glimcher became an associate professor in economics in addition to his postings in neural science and psychology, and in 2008 he was promoted to full Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology.

In 2010, Paul Glimcher became the Silver Endowed Chair in Neural Science.

Paul Glimcher was instrumental in facilitating the development of the bourgeoning of the field by recognizing these trends and arguing that future behavioral science research would require an interdisciplinary approach to overcome the inherent research limitations of any one discipline.

Paul Glimcher co-authored what is often referred to as the first academic paper in neuroeconomics, with American neurobiologist, Michael Platt, which was published in the journal Nature in 1999.

In 2014, Paul Glimcher worked with Miyoung Chun of the Kavli Foundation and began the development of a new interdisciplinary longitudinal study, called the Kavli HUMAN Project.

In 2016, in light of governmental fiscal austerity for basic research at all levels, Paul Glimcher founded Human Project Inc.

Paul Glimcher's research aims to describe the neural events that underlie behavioral decision-making using tools from neuroscience, psychology, and economics.

In 1999, with neuroscientist Michael Platt, Paul Glimcher was the first to demonstrate a utility-like value signal in the brain of a living creature.

Paul Glimcher's laboratory has conducted extensive research on the brain's reward system and, in particular, the dopamine system and reinforcement learning.

Paul Glimcher's research has appeared in academic journals in the fields of economics, psychology, and neuroscience, as well as in general scholarly journals such as Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Paul Glimcher has published nearly 100 academic articles with colleagues, postdoctoral fellows, and students.

Paul Glimcher is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the McKnight, Whitehall, Klingenstein, and McDonnell Foundations, as well as a member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives.

Paul Glimcher is or has been an investigator of the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the National Institute on Aging.

Paul Glimcher has won the Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences in 2003 and NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006.

Paul Glimcher has served on numerous advisory boards and research study committees operated by the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, including:.

Paul Glimcher has been a reviewer on multiple proposal and program review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Paul Glimcher's work has been featured in popular press such as Time, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, BBC, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Quanta Magazine, New York Magazine, Science, NewScientist, Fast Company, Vox, and The Atlantic's CityLab.