Age, Biography and Wiki
Christof Koch is an American neuroscientist and philosopher best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness. He is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington.
Koch was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Germany. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Tübingen in 1979 and his PhD in biophysics from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg in 1983.
Koch has held faculty positions at the California Institute of Technology, the University of Tübingen, and the University of Arizona. He was the Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science from 2003 to 2013.
Koch has written several books on the neuroscience of consciousness, including The Quest for Consciousness (2004), Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (2012), and The Feeling of Life Itself (2019). He has also written extensively on the philosophy of mind and the implications of neuroscience for free will and moral responsibility.
Koch is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards, including the Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2006), the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience (2014), and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science (2015).
Popular As |
N/A |
Occupation |
N/A |
Age |
68 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
Born |
13 November 1956 |
Birthday |
13 November |
Birthplace |
Kansas City, Missouri, US |
Nationality |
United States |
We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 13 November.
He is a member of famous with the age 68 years old group.
Christof Koch Height, Weight & Measurements
At 68 years old, Christof Koch height not available right now. We will update Christof Koch's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
Physical Status |
Height |
Not Available |
Weight |
Not Available |
Body Measurements |
Not Available |
Eye Color |
Not Available |
Hair Color |
Not Available |
Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
Family |
Parents |
Not Available |
Wife |
Not Available |
Sibling |
Not Available |
Children |
Not Available |
Christof Koch Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Christof Koch worth at the age of 68 years old? Christof Koch’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from United States. We have estimated
Christof Koch's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2023 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
Salary in 2022 |
Under Review |
House |
Not Available |
Cars |
Not Available |
Source of Income |
|
Christof Koch Social Network
Timeline
Koch is a proponent of the idea of consciousness emerging out of complex nervous networks. In 2014, he published a short discussion work, In which I argue that consciousness is a fundamental property of complex things, where he introduced the concept that consciousness is a fundamental property of networked entities, and therefore cannot be derived from anything else, since it is a simple substance.
In early 2011, Koch became the chief scientist and the President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, leading their ten-year project concerning high-throughput large-scale cortical coding. The mission is to understand the computations that lead from photons to behavior by observing and modeling the physical transformations of signals in the visual brain of behaving mice. The project seeks to catalogue all the building blocks (ca. 100 distinct cell types) of the then visual cortical regions and associated structures (thalamus, colliculus) and their dynamics. The scientists seek to know what the animal sees, how it thinks, and how it decides. They seek to map out the murine mind in a quantitative manner. The Allen Institute for Brain Science currently employs about 300 scientists, engineers, technologists and supporting personnel. The first eight years of this ten-year endeavor to build brain observatories were funded by a donation more than $500 million by Microsoft founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen.
Koch's primary collaborator in the endeavor of locating the neural correlates of consciousness was the molecular biologist turned neuroscientist, Francis Crick, starting with their first paper in 1990 and their last one, that Crick edited on the day of his death, July 24, 2004, on the relationship between the claustrum, a mysterious anatomical structure situated underneath the insular cortex, and consciousness.
Since the early 1990s, Koch has argued that identifying the mechanistic basis of consciousness is a scientifically tractable problem, and has been influential in arguing that consciousness can be approached using the modern tools of neurobiology. He and his student Nao Tsuchiya invented continuous flash suppression, an efficient psychophysical masking technique for rendering images invisible for many seconds. They have used this technique to argue that selective attention and consciousness are distinct phenomena, with distinct biological functions and mechanisms.
Koch co-founded the Methods in Computational Neuroscience summer course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole in 1988, the Neuromorphic Engineering summer school in Telluride, Colorado in 1994 and the Dynamic Brain summer course at the Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island in 2014. All three summer schools continue to be taught.
Koch worked for four years at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT before joining, in 1986, the newly started Computation and Neural Systems PhD program at the California Institute of Technology.
In 1986, Koch and Shimon Ullman proposed the idea of a visual saliency map in the primate visual system. Subsequently, his then PhD-student, Laurent Itti, and Koch developed a popular suite of visual saliency algorithms.
Koch was born in the Midwestern United States, and subsequently was raised in the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and Morocco. Koch is the son of German parents; his father was a diplomat, as is his older brother Michael. He was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended a Jesuit high school in Morocco. He received a PhD in sciences for his works in the field of nonlinear information processing from the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany, in 1982.
Christof Koch (/k ɑː x / ; born November 13, 1956) is a German-American neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural bases of consciousness. He is the president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology.