Aron Barbey, Ph.D.

Aron Barbey directs the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior and the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He began his career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he became founding director of the Center for Brain Plasticity, director of the Intelligence, Learning and Plasticity Initiative and chair of the Intelligent Systems Major Research Theme at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. 
Barbey's research investigates how intelligence emerges from the network organization and dynamics of the human connectome, adopting an interdisciplinary approach combining methods from the psychological, computational and brain sciences. An important goal of his work is to establish a sound foundation for clinical research that aims to remediate disturbances of brain function in psychiatric illness and traumatic brain injury. His group has won more than $26 million in research funding, with support from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the White House BRAIN Initiative, the National Institutes of Health, the Naitonal Science Foundation and private industry.