Sean Escola

Sean Escola is co-founder of Herophilus and an assistant professor in the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. His research, funded by the NIH and NSF, studies circuit models of motor function and learning. He is a co-founder of Herophilus, where he is involved in multiple aspects of the company’s scientific program. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Escola sees patients in the outpatient and emergency room settings. Dr. Escola received his undergraduate degrees in biochemistry and computer science, master’s in computer science, and MD-PhD degrees with a thesis in computational neuroscience, all at Columbia. He completed a residency in clinical psychiatry also at Columbia.