Dr. Raphael Pinaud is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Northwestern University, USA. Dr. Pinaud received his Ph.D. from OHSU, in Portland, USA. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern University, he was the Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair and an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, and a faculty member at the University of Rochester, NY. Dr. Pinaud carried out post-doctoral training at the Duke University Medical Center, USA, and at the University of Toronto, in Canada.

Dr. Pinaud has co-edited the books “Plasticity and the Visual System: From Genes to Circuits” (2005) and “Immediate Early Genes in Sensory Processing, Cognitive Performance and Neurological Disorders” (2006), both of which are published through Springer. He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications and more than a dozen book chapters on central nervous system function. He has received a number of professional awards including the Society for Neuroscience's Career Development Award, the Society for Neuroscience's Axon Award, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Award, the Killam Memorial Award, and an N. L. Tartar Award. Dr. Pinaud’s expertise is in the field of sensory neuroscience. He is the Director of the Laboratory of Sensory Processing and Plasticity, where he and his group use a multi-disciplinary research program to investigate the neural mechanisms ofsensory processing and experience-dependent plasticity in the auditory and visual systems.