Sam Reiter

Sam Reiter is currently an Associate Professor and head of the Computational Neuroethology Unit at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST). He did PhD work at Brown University and the US National Institutes of Health, and postodoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. His research interests center around understanding general principles of animal behavior and its neural basis, combining experimental and computational approaches. His lab currently focuses on studying coleoid cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish, and squid), animals with a range of fascinating and unique behaviors, large and nearly unexplored brains, and which live in greater variety around Okinawa than anywhere else in the world. Recent and ongoing work concerns visual perception, sleep, motor control, and collective behavior.

Experience
2014-2019
2010-2014
2005-2010
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Sam Reiter
Associate Professor
PhD, Neuroscience, NIH-Brown University Graduate Partnership Program, 2014
BS, Neuroscience, Brown University, 2009