Costas Anastassiou is Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Biomedical Sciences at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California). Between 2007 and 2013, Costas was a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and in 2013 he joined the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle as scientist and Assistant Investigator.  Costas’ focus is in the field of neuroscience and studies how the identity and composition of neurons translates to their phenotype and how these properties combine in brain circuits to produce function or, in the case of disease, dysfunction. Projects in the Anastassiou lab are at the interface of biology, life sciences, computers, algorithms and machine learning. His work on the impact of electric fields on neurons and neural populations was supported by three postdoctoral awards by the Engineering Physics and Sciences Research Council (2007) and the Swiss National Science foundation (2007, 2010). His work on the biophysics of brain computations received the 2016 Swiss National Science foundation Professor award. Costas’ graduate thesis on nonlinear time-series analysis of electrochemical and biological data with Danny O’Hare and Kim Parker at Imperial College London was supported by an EPSRC graduate fellowship. Costas holds a degree in chemical engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).