Biography

Dr. Hildebrand is a neuroscientist interested in how the brain interprets raw visual inputs to understand the meaning and composition of the external world.  His lab is particularly interested in how neuronal circuits support perception and social cognition.  He earned his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at Harvard University with Florian Engert and Jeff Lichtman, where he developed nanometer-scale mapping techniques to produce a reconstruction of a larval zebrafish brain that revealed fine structural arrangements within axon bundles and their bilateral symmetry across the brain.  As a postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller University with Winrich Freiwald, he studied the functional organization of the marmoset visual cortex and the neuronal mechanisms underlying perception.