Prof. Thomas Albright
Professor and Conrad T. Prebys Chair, Vision Center Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Prof. Tom Albright is professor and director of the Vision Center Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. His research focuses on understanding how the brain interprets visual information so that we can thrive in our visually stimulating world. In 2012, he was appointed the president of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture. Prof. Albright received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Maryland and his master’s and doctorate degrees in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Charles Gross at Princeton, where he studied the organization and functions of primate visual cortex before he joined the Salk faculty in 1987. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has been honored with a number of prestigious awards including the McKnight Neuroscience Development award and the National Academy of Science award for initiatives in research.