Christof Koch

Christof Koch is a German-American neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness. He is the president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in sciences for his works in the field of nonlinear information processing from the Max Planck Institute in Tubingen, Germany, in 1982. Koch worked for four years at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT before joining, in 1986, the newly started Computation and Neural Systems Ph.D. program at the California Institute of Technology.