Our Team

The Berkeley Center for the Study of Resilience (BCSR) brings together world-leading experts in neuroscience and computer science to address the current lack of effective treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases by focusing on the brain’s inherent resilience mechanisms.

Daniela Kaufer

Prof. Daniela Kaufer is the Class of 1943 Memorial Chair Professor of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience.  Kaufer explores stress and resilience in the human brain and animal models. She explores how psychedelics could alleviate stress-related disorders, aiming to unravel the intricate interactions between stress and the brain's neurobiology. Kaufer’s lab is studying how does the brain deal with perturbations like stress and brain injury and what are the mechanisms underlying trajectories of resilience and vulnerability throughout life, and into aging.  www.kauferlab.com

Her research had been published in top journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Annals of Neurology, eLife, Translational Psychiatry and Molecular Psychiatry.  Kaufer is the recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Director's New Innovator Award (BRAINS), The Bakar fellowship, and the Archer award for innovation in aging research.

 

Shafi Goldwasser

Professor Shafi Goldwasser, is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California Berkeley. Goldwasser is also a Professor (post tenure) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. She holds a B.S. Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1979), and M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley (1984).

Goldwasser was the recipient of the ACM Turing Award in 2012, the Gödel Prize in 1993 and in 2001, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1996, the RSA Award in Mathematics in 1998, the ACM Athena Award for Women in Computer Science in 2008, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2010, the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award in 2011, the Simons Foundation Investigator Award in 2012, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2018. Goldwasser is a member of the NAS, NAE, AAAS, the Russian Academy of Science, the Israeli Academy of Science, the London Royal Mathematical Society and a Foreign Member of The Royal Society. Goldwasser holds honorary degrees from Ben Gurion University, Bar Ilan University, Carnegie Mellon University, Tel Aviv University, Haifa University, University of Oxford, and the University of Waterloo, and has received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Barnard College Medal of Distinction.

Fellows

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    Ehud Isaacson

    Director, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Weill Neurohub

  • Rikky Muller Headshot

    Rikky Muller

    Associate Professor, EECS & Emerging Technologies

  • Jack Gallant Headshot

    Jack Gallant

    Professor, Neuroscience and Psychology

  • Venkat Guruswami Headshot

    Venkat Guruswami

    Professor, EECS & Mathematics, Simons Institute

  • Lance Kriegsfeld Headshot

    Lance Kriegsfeld

    Professor, Neuroscience & Psychology

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    Peter Sudmant

    Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology