David E. Warren, Ph.D., is a new faculty member in the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences.
- Name: David E. Warren, Ph.D.
- Hometown: Chicago
- New title and department at UNMC: Assistant professor/translational neuroscientist, UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences
Research/professional interests:
- Cognitive neuroscience;
- memory;
- cognition;
- dementia; and
- aging.
How I fell in love with cognitive neuroscience:
I’ve always been fascinated by memory and cognition, and a series of great instructors and mentors during my undergraduate education convinced me that studying the brain bases of cognition would make for an exciting, challenging career in science.
Degrees:
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Memberships:
- Society for Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society
- International Neuropsychological Society
- Society for the Neurobiology of Language
- Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Three things people may not know about me:
- During undergrad, I played clarinet in the University of California marching band — go, Bears!
- I love tinkering with computers, from building to networking to programming.
- I’m a native New Yorker, born on Manhattan Island.