Michael Dickinson | |
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Born | Michael H. Dickinson 1963 (age 60–61)
Seaford, Delaware, U.S. |
Education |
Brown University (
BS) University of Washington ( PhD) |
Occupation | Biologist |
Awards | Larry Sandler Memorial Award (1990) |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Michael H. Dickinson (born 1963) is an American fly bioengineer and neuroscientist, and Zarem Professor of Biology and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology. [1] [2] He studies Drosophila flight control systems and sensory processing and was dubbed the Fly Guy by The Scientist. [3]
Dickinson was born in Seaford, Delaware, in 1963 but grew up in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia. [4] He graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in 1984, and from University of Washington with a Ph.D. in 1989. [5] He did his postdoctoral work with Karl Georg Götz at the University of Tübingen. [6]
He was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 1991, [7] before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. [8] He was at California Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2011 before moving to the University of Washington for 2010 to 2014. [9] [6] He is now back at Caltech.
He is a Monitoring Editor at the Journal of Experimental Biology. [10] He was a course director of the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory. [11]
Michael Dickinson | |
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Born | Michael H. Dickinson 1963 (age 60–61)
Seaford, Delaware, U.S. |
Education |
Brown University (
BS) University of Washington ( PhD) |
Occupation | Biologist |
Awards | Larry Sandler Memorial Award (1990) |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Michael H. Dickinson (born 1963) is an American fly bioengineer and neuroscientist, and Zarem Professor of Biology and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology. [1] [2] He studies Drosophila flight control systems and sensory processing and was dubbed the Fly Guy by The Scientist. [3]
Dickinson was born in Seaford, Delaware, in 1963 but grew up in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia. [4] He graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in 1984, and from University of Washington with a Ph.D. in 1989. [5] He did his postdoctoral work with Karl Georg Götz at the University of Tübingen. [6]
He was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 1991, [7] before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. [8] He was at California Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2011 before moving to the University of Washington for 2010 to 2014. [9] [6] He is now back at Caltech.
He is a Monitoring Editor at the Journal of Experimental Biology. [10] He was a course director of the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory. [11]