Georg Striedter

Georg Striedter is a Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. He grew up in Germany, went to high school in Newton, MA, received his undergraduate training at Cornell University, obtained a Ph.D. from UC San Diego, and pursued postdoctoral research at Caltech. His research has always focused on how and why organisms changed over the course of evolutionary time. In his laboratory, he worked with birds as well fishes to determine how the brains of different species diverged.

Dr. Striedter received the C. J. Herrick Award in 1998, a fellowship from Berlin’s Institute for Advanced Study in 2002, and a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2009. He has published two books on brain evolution, namely Principles of Brain Evolution (2005) and Brains Through Time: A Natural History of Vertebrates (2020; with Glenn Northcutt). He has also written a college-level textbook on neurobiology (Neurobiology: A Functional Approach, 2016), and a comparative perspective on the use of model systems in biomedical research (Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns; 2022).

Georg enjoys his family – including a Bernese Mountain dog – and long walks on the beach or through forests. He loves trying to synthesize large amounts of information and then make it accessible to a broad audience. He aims to simplify as much as possible, but no further (as Einstein supposedly once said).