Dan O'Shea

Dan received his B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (2009) before completing a PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford University (2017). In his graduate and postdoctoral research with Krishna Shenoy, Dan used mechanical and optogenetic perturbations to explore the neural population dynamics that enable flexible and robust control of movement. In the Deisseroth lab, Dan is using a variety of techniques to interrogate how brain-wide neural circuits perform the distributed computations that establish skilled behavior.