Leifer Lab @ Princeton - Optical neurophysiology of behavior

Current Lab Members

Andrew Leifer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

leifer@princeton.edu
(609) 258-8779
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Andrew Leifer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Previously he was a Lewis-Sigler Fellow and Principal Investigator at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. He received his doctorate in Biophysics from Harvard University under the supervision of Professor Aravi Samuel. As an undergraduate, he attended Stanford University where he graduated with degrees in Physics and Political Science and interdisciplinary honors in international security studies. He grew up out west in sunny California and Colorado.

Anuj Sharma, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist

aksharma@princeton.edu
(609) 258-8635

Anuj Sharma is an Associate Professional Specialist and Lab Manager in the Department of Physics. Previously, he had been a Postdoctoral Associate at University of Maryland, College Park and Cornell University, Ithaca. He received his Doctorate in Biotechnology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Other than science, he is interested in Nature Photography and Sketching.

Ashley Linder

Graduate Student

Jointly advised with Josh Shaevitz
linder@princeton.edu
(609) 258-2973

Ashley Linder is a graduate student in Neuroscience. She grew up in California, and abandoned a promising career as a junior competitive surfer during a near drowning experience. Her fear of the ocean prompted her to stay indoors to study mathematics (she double-majored in Math and Neuroscience at UCSD) and, eventually, propelled her to Princeton, as far away from the Pacific Ocean as she could get. Ashley has resumed surfing and sold her life story rights to make the movie Blue Crush, starring Kate Bosworth.

Mochi Liu

Graduate Student

Jointly advised with Josh Shaevitz
mochil@princeton.edu
(609) 258-2973

Mochi is a graduate student in the QCB program. He grew up in the mean streets of suburban San Diego, where daily drive-by shootings in front of his low-income housing prompted him to move to rustic Berkeley, CA for his undergraduate education. It was at UC Berkeley that Mochi became interested in how biological things worked, and he eventually graduated with a degree in Bioengineering. Outside of work, he likes to play tug of war against fish and read about trivial issues such as arms control.