Dr. Jeffrey D. Schall
Professor of Biology
Director, Visual Neurophysiology Center
Professor Schall joined York University in the Department of Biology in 2021. Previously, he was at Vanderbilt University, where he was a professor in the Department of Psychology and the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience.
Schall was founding director of the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience since 2000. From 1998 to 2015 he also directed the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center during which he oversaw staff, services, and trainees to facilitate vision and eye research across departments and schools at Vanderbilt.
Schall is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of visual neurophysiology. He earned his PhD in anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine (1986) and subsequently completed postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has been supported by grants from the National Eye Institute, National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and now the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council.
Schall’s scholarly accomplishments have been recognized with awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the James S. McDonnell Foundation and the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. He also received the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was president of the Vision Science Society for its 2019 meeting.
At York, Schall is a core member of the Centre for Vision Research and of the Vision: Science to Application (VISTA) program, funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. He is the inaugural scientific director of the York University Visual Neurophysiology Centre.
In 2024, Schall was honored as a Canada Research Chair in Translating Neuroscience.
Current Graduate Students
Steven Errington (co-mentored with Geoff Woodman), Vanderbilt University
Beatriz Herrera (co-mentored with Jorge Riera), Florida International University
Wanyi Lu, York University
Pranavan Thirunavukkarasu, York University
Jacob Westerberg (co-mentored with Alex Maier), Vanderbilt University
Postdoctoral Researchers
Ben Corrigan, York University
Hamidreza Ramezanpour (co-mentored with Mazyar Fallah and Kohitij Kar), York University
Amirsaman Sajad, Vanderbilt University
Michelle Schall, Research Associate & Lab Manager
Harry Parmar, Queens University (co-mentored with Martin Paré)
Rivka van Klei, York University
Mani Khoshnoodi, York University
Coauthors
Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University
Jean Bullier Université Claude Bernard – Lyon
Roger Carpenter Gonville & Caius University of Cambridge
Vivien Casagrande Vanderbilt University
Michael E Goldberg Columbia University
Owen Jones Vanderbilt University
Ann Graybiel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jon Kaas Vanderbilt University
Audie Leventhal University of Utah
Gordon Logan Vanderbilt University
Nikos Logothetis International Center for Primate Brain Research
Alexander Maier Vanderbilt University
Anne Morel University Hospital in Zurich
Doug Munoz Queen’s University
Thomas Palmeri Vanderbilt University
Martin Paré Queen’s University
Sohee Park Vanderbilt University
Jorge Riera Florida International University
Ueli Rutishauser Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Francis Shen University of Minnesota
Philip Smith The University of Melbourne
Geoff Woodman Vanderbilt University
Previous Trainees
Narcisse Bichot, Research Fellow, MIT
Joshua Brown, Professor, Indiana University
Leanne Boucher, Professor, Nova Southeastern University
Jeremiah Cohen, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University
Joshua Cosman, Director of Digital Health Strategy, AbbVie
Greg Cox, Assistant Professor, University at Albany
Jacob Elsey, Graduate Student, The Johns Hopkins University
Erik Emeric, Research Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University
Keisuke Fukuda, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Anna Garr, Lecuturer in Psychology, Belmont University
David Godlove, Solutions Architect, Ctrl IQ, Inc.
Doug Hanes, Executive Vice President Product Management & Pricing, National General Insurance
Richard Heitz, Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics Practice, Abbott Laboratories
Shigehiko Ito, Legal Associate, White & Case LLP
Chi-Hung Juan, Professor, National Central University, Taiwan
Min-Suk Kang, Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University
Kaleb Lowe, Senior Data Scientist at data.ai
Paul Middlebrooks, Brain Inspired Podcast
Aditya Murthy, Professor, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science
Matthew Nelson, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Taihei Ninomiya, Assistant Professor, National Institute for Physiological Sciences Okazaki, Japan
Pierre Pouget, Principal Investigator, L’Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, France
Braden Purcell, Data Scientist at Squarespace
Supriya Ray, Assistant Professor, University of Allahabad
Thomas Reppert, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of the South
Amirsaman Sajad, Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai
Takashi Sato, Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina
Mathieu Servant, Associate Professor, University of Franche-Comté
Veit Stuphorn, Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University
Chenchal R. Subraveti, Sr. Application Developer, Vanderbilt University
Tracy L. Taylor, Professor, Dalhousie University
Katherine Thakkar, Associate Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
Kirk G. Thompson, Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, NIH
Geoff Woodman, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
Bram Zandbelt, Data Scientist, Nederlandse Spoorwegen