Departmental Executive Officer 

Matthew Howard, M.D.

VanGilder Professor and Department Chair
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Faculty

Jeremy Greenlee, M.D.

Professor and Arnold H. Menezes Chair in Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Brian Dlouhy, M.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Hiroto Kawasaki, M.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Hiroyuki Oya, M.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Kirill Nourski, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Christopher I. Petkov, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Ariane E. Rhone, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist/Engineer 
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Joel Berger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

 

Sukhbinder Kumar, Ph.D. 

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

 

Christopher Kovach, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Scientists

Haiming Chen, M.S.E.E.

Research Specialist
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Christopher Garcia, M.S.

Research Associate
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Research Assistants

Anna Schwarting, B.S. 
Research Assistant 
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Hannah Smith, B.S.
Research Assistant 
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA
 

Graduate Students

Emily Dappen, B.S.
Graduate Student 
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA
 

Postdoctoral Scholars

Md Rakibul Mowla, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Carolina Deifelt Streese, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Farhad Tabasi, M.D.

Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

Ryan Calmus, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa, IA

University of Iowa Collaborators

Aaron Boes, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - Neurology
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
University of Iowa, IA

Rodica Curtu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Iowa, IA

Bob McMurray, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Linguistics
University of Iowa, IA

John Wemmie, M.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Iowa, IA

Nicholas Trapp

Assistant Professor 
Department of Psychiatry
University of Iowa, IA

Phillip Gander, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology
University of Iowa, IA

External Collaborators

Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D.

Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
California Institute of Technology, CA

Matthew I. Banks, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

Maria Tzai-Wen Chiu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biological Science and Technology
National Chiao Tung University, TAIWAN

Tim Griffiths, M.D.

Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neurology
Newcastle University Medical School, UK

Rick Jenison, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

Yukiko Kikuchi, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate (Ph.D.)
Biosciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University, UK

Paul WF Poon, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Physiology
National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN
Associate Dean of International Affairs, Medical College
National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN.

Richard Reale, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa, IA
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

Mitchell Steinschneider, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY

Nao Tsuchiya, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
School of Psychology and Psychiatry
Monash University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Zahra Jourahmad, M.D.

Oliver Elias Flouty, M.D.

Andrew Liu, M.D., Ph.D.

Yasunori Nagahama, M.D.

Emanuel J. Ray, B.S.

Zsuzsanna Kocsis, Ph.D. 

Taylor J. Abel, M.D.

Kingsley Abode-Iyamah, M.D.

Roozbeh Behroozmand, Ph.D.

Amy Belfi, Ph.D.

Nader S. Dahdaleh, M.D.

Rachel Gold, B.S.

Andy Grossbach, M.D.

Daniel Hansen, M.D.

Kenji Ibayashi, M.D., Ph.D.

Adam W. Jackson M.D., Ph.D.

Karim Johari, Ph.D

Adam Jones, Ph.D.

John W. Miller

Araceli Ramirez-Cardenas, M.D., M.A., Ph.D

Chandan Reddy, M.D.

Beau F. Snoad

Matt Sutterer, Ph.D.

Adrianna Teriakidis, Ph.D.

Xiayi Wang, Ph.D.

Riley Woods, B.A.