Christof Koch

Christof Koch
Koch in 2008
Born	(1956-11-13) November 13, 1956 (age 67) Kansas City, Missouri, US
Alma mater	University of Tübingen Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Known for	Neural correlates of consciousness
Scientific career
Fields	neurophysiology computational neuroscience biophysics
Institutions	Allen Institute for Brain Science California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Valentin Braitenberg Tomaso Poggio
Doctoral students	Laurent Itti Virgil Griffith Fei-Fei Li Anthony Zador
Website	christofkoch.com

Christof Koch (/kɒx/ KOKH;^[1] born November 13, 1956) is a German-American neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness. He was the president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. He remains at the Institute as a Meritorious Investigator. He is also the Chief Scientist of the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation in Santa Monica,^[2] that funds research meant to alleviate suffering, anxiety and other forms of distress in all people.

From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology.^[3]