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Arif A. Hamid Ph.D., is a Hanna Gray Fellow at HHMI, and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Medical Discovery Team in Addiction (MDTA) at the University of Minnesota.
The Hamid Lab will open November 1st, 2021 at the Twin-Cities Medical Campus in Minneapolis, MN. We are interested in deeply understanding brain mechanisms for flexible behavioral-control. The lab will focus on the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine and Cortico-Basal ganglia circuit in reinforcement learning (RL). The lab has extensive expertise in combining interdisciplinary approaches to (i) study the precise anatomical, temporal and functional properties of brain decision-networks, (ii) link the biological circuit mechanisms to specific computational operations in normative theoretical frameworks, and (iii) understand how these circuit and cellular specializations become leveraged during various behavioral demands. See more in the Research page. Arif received PhD training with Josh Berke at U of Michigan, and completed postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University with Michael Frank and Chris Moore.
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