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Andrew Huberman

American neuroscientist and podcaster (born 1975)

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Huberman is the son of Argentine physicist Bernardo Huberman. He earned a B.A. in psychology from UC Santa Barbara in 1998, an M.A. in psychology from UC Berkeley in 2000, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UC Davis in 2004. Huberman conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford under Ben Barres, focusing on the visual system, and held faculty positions at UC San Diego and later Stanford, where his lab studies vision regeneration, stress mitigation, and non-pharmacological interventions for anxiety.

Early life and education

Huberman was born in 1975 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California. His father, the Argentine physicist Bernardo Huberman, is also a professor at Stanford, and his mother is a children's book author.

As a child, Huberman was involved in athletics, including soccer and swimming. His parents divorced when he was 12 years old. After his parents' divorce, he withdrew from academics, developed an interest in skateboarding, and considered a career as a firefighter. He attended Gunn High School. After developing interests in therapy and biopsychology, he attended Foothill College.

Huberman graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1998 with a B.A. in psychology. He then earned an M.A. in psychology in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, Huberman approached Carla J. Shatz to be his doctoral advisor, though she declined because she was concerned that he had a limited background in cellular molecular biology and would be moving her lab to Harvard University. She encouraged Huberman to transfer to the University of California, Davis, and work under Dr. Barbara Chapman. Huberman obtained a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UC Davis in 2004.

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