Dr. Timothy Verstynen

Associate Professor, Psychology, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Biomedical Engineering

Education

• B.A., University of New Mexico, 2001

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 2006

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco 2006-2009

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, 2009-2012

Bio

Timothy Verstynen is an Associate Professor in Psychology and the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute with a courtesy appointment in Biomedical Engineering at CMU and the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Co-Director of the CMU-Pitt Brain Imaging Data Generation & Education (BRIDGE) Center. Professor Verstynen received his Bachelors in Psychology from the University of New Mexico and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied the neural mechanisms of complex hand movements. As a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, he explored the computational mechanisms of fast adaptive priors in visually-guided reaching, followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, developing novel diffusion imaging approaches for mapping white matter pathways.