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Rui Costa is the President and CEO of the Allen Institute. He did his Ph.D. studies with Dr. Alcino Silva at UCLA and postdoctoral work with Dr. Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University.
He became a Section Chief at the National Institutes of Health in 2006, an Investigator of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Program in 2009, a Professor at Columbia University in 2016.
He was co-Director of Champalimaud Research and Director/CEO of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University.
He is an elected member of EMBO, and the National Academy of Medicine. His laboratory develops and uses genetic, electrophysiological, optical, and behavioral approaches to investigate how the brain adaptively controls behavior.
Rui Costa received several awards, such as the Ariëns Kappers Medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the NIH Pioneer Award, and the Mina Bissell Award, and he was Knighted Commander of the Order of Sant'Iago da Espada by the President of Portugal.
