Full Professor, Department of Radiology
Micah M. Murray is an American-Swiss neuroscientist. He earned a double BA from The Johns Hopkins University in 1995. In 2002, he received his PhD with honors in neuroscience from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University. He completed a post-doctoral fellowships at the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland. In 2003, was recruited to the University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Switzerland (CHUV-UNIL) for a faculty position within the Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences Departments. He also holds an adjunct professorship at Vanderbilt University (USA). He is the founding director of the Laboratory for Investigative Neurophysiology (the LINE) and served as the EEG section head of the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging (2007-2023).
Professor Murray has a contiguous record of grant support from the Swiss National Science Foundation since 2004 in addition to numerous other foundation and industrial grants. He is the laureate of awards from the Leenaards Foundation, the Swiss Society for Biological Psychiatry, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Swiss Brain League. He currently holds editorial positions at Brain Topography (Editor-in-Chief), Neuropsychologia (Section Editor), and Current Biology (Editorial Board). Most recently, Professor Murray has conceived and established The Sense Innovation and Research Center, which is a joint venture of the CHUV, the UNIL, and the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO) Valais/Wallis. Professor Murray serves as The Sense’s founding Scientific and Academic Director, which currently includes 16 principal investigators and their teams.
Professor Murray’s own research focuses on developing brain imaging and mapping methods as well as their applications in both health and disease across the human lifespan. His scientific output includes more than 200 articles and book chapters. He has spearheaded advancements allowing for EEG to be used as a true neuroimaging technique. He has been a pioneer in characterizing brain mechanisms of human perception and in particular the ways that the senses appropriately combine information. This has led to a new schema of the functional organization of the brain and new approaches for screening and rehabilitation.