Andrew Leifer is assistant professor of physics and neuroscience at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University in 2012. Prior to that, from 2007 to 2012, he was the NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Program in Biophysics and Department of Physics at Harvard University. He received a Lewis-Sigler Fellowship to form his own independent research group, the Leifer Lab, at Princeton University, which focuses on neuroscience and the brain, especially how collections of neurons work together to receive information from the environment, encode that information, and then process it to generate purposeful behavior. He is an Investigator in the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain and a recipient of the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award and the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award.