Simon Le Vay - Education and Career

Education and Career

  • University of Cambridge, England (B.A., Natural Sciences, 1966)
  • University of Göttingen, Germany (Ph.D., Neuroanatomy, 1971)
  • Harvard Medical School (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1972–1974)

LeVay held positions in neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School from 1974 to 1984. He then worked at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies from 1984 to 1993 while holding an Associate Professorship in Biology at the University of California, San Diego. Much of his early work focused on visual cortex in animals, especially cats. In 2003 he was a lecturer and the Director of Human Sexuality Studies at Stanford University.

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