A public observatory for the human brain
The Brain Observatory was founded in 2005 by Dr. Jacopo Annese as a research lab at The University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Today, the Observatory operates as an independent, nonprofit institute that bridges science, art, and education to make neuroscience accessible and meaningful.
The Founder
Dr. Jacopo Annese graduated from the University of Rome in Italy with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology and zoology. He earned a master’s degree in neurological sciences at University College London, U.K., and completed the Ph.D. program in cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. He subsequently trained in computational anatomy at the Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada, and at the Laboratory of Neuroimaging at the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the UCSD Dept. of Radiology in 2005, where he served as a research faculty member until 2015. His research has been featured in a variety of media, including PBS NOVA, National Geographic, BBC, Discovery Channel, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Esquire Magazine, and Discover Magazine.
Advisory Committee
Marius Qwint, M.Phil.
Reader in Visual Culture
University of Portsmouth
Dana Small, Ph.D.
Psychiatry and Psychology, Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Ken Arnold
Director of Medical Museion and Professor at Copenhagen University (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Jennifer McNab Ph.D.
Radiology, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Santosh Kesari, MD, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor of Translational Neuro-oncology and Neurotherapeutics, Saint John’s Cancer Institute. (Santa Monica, CA)
Jack Glaser, Ph.D.
President, MBF Bioscience (Burlington, VT)
Todd Herrington M.D., Ph.D.
Neurology, Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, MA)