Roberto A. Gulli, PhD

Dr. Roberto A. Gulli is an Assistant Professor in the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and a member of the Friedman Brain Institute within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Gulli’s research is at the nexus of two pursuits: (1) To discover how prior experience shapes decision-making processes through functional interactions across cortical and subcortical brain regions; and (2) To develop and test novel therapeutics for disorders of memory and decision-making. This research will bridge a critical gap in understanding the interactions between memory and decision-making in health and disease.

In pursuit of these goals, Dr. Gulli’s lab utilizes high-density electrophysiology, virtual reality, and computational analysis with rhesus macaque monkeys to explore how prior experiences shape future decisions and the neural circuits supporting cognition. He will also study emerging treatments for disorders of memory, such as deep brain stimulation.

Dr. Gulli received his Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics and his Master of Science in Human Health & Nutritional Sciences from the University of Guelph, Canada. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience from McGill University, Canada where he studied hippocampal function in nonhuman primates under Dr. Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo. He then completed his postdoctoral work at Columbia University, joining the labs of Dr. C. Daniel Salzman and Dr. Stefano Fusi studying the interaction of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex during learning and decision-making.