Alex Schlegel

Alex completed his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience with Peter Tse at Dartmouth College, where his work sought mechanistic links between the distributed networks of the brain and the mind they create.

The questions that drive him are: How does the human brain mediate flexible, creative cognitive behaviors including artistic and scientific thought? Why is our species the only one (so far) to demonstrate these abilities? And how are these abilities realized via dynamic interactions in distributed neural networks?

In his free time, Alex enjoys hiking, gardening, and creating sculpture that reveals hidden processes in the environment. He looks forward to the day when machines begin imagining a better world.