Christof Koch, PhD
- Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology
- California Institute of Technology
Bio
Born in 1956 in the American Midwest, Christof Koch grew up in Holland, Germany, Canada, and Morocco, where he graduated from the Lycèe Descartes in 1974. He studied Physics and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen in Germany and was awarded his Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1982. After four years at MIT, Dr. Koch joined Caltech in 1986, where he is the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology. He lives in Pasadena, and loves to run and to climb.
The author of three hundred scientific papers and journal articles, and several books, Dr. Koch studies the biophysics of computation, and the neuronal basis of visual perception, attention, and consciousness. Together with Francis Crick, he is one of the pioneers of the neurobiological approach to consciousness.
Bibliography
Koch, C. The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach. Roberts & Publishers, Denver, Colorado, 2004. (www.questforconsciousness.com)