Asif Ghazanfar

Asif Ghazanfar is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and an associated faculty member in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. Born in Washington state and raised in neighboring Idaho, he graduated with a philosophy degree from the University of Idaho, then went on to earn his PhD in Neurobiology from Duke University under the guidance of Miguel Nicolelis. After that, he did postdoctoral work with Marc Hauser at Harvard University and was then a research scientist in the lab of Nikos Logothetis at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. He enjoys being a scientist immensely and could not be happier. His research focuses on the biology of vocal communication in primates and if one insists on labeling him, his preference would be ‘integrative biologist’ but he would be okay with ‘neuroethologist’.