Timothy Dunn is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University, where he worked in the lab of Florian Engert to study the brain-wide neural circuits and computations underlying innate behaviors in larval zebrafish. Dunn then worked with Sean Eddy as a college fellow at Harvard before joining Duke as a Duke Forge Scholar. In 2021, he started his lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering.

Broadly, the Dunn lab is interested in principles of how the brain orchestrates natural behaviors, and their approaches centers on technological innovation as an engine for discovery. The Dunn lab has developed computational approaches for deep behavioral phenotyping via high-resolution quantification and analysis of behavior and social interactions. They are now using these approaches to study neural representations and probe the nature of and mechanisms underlying brain disorders in both model organisms and humans.