Justin Rhodes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Justin Rhodes

American psychologist

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1972

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: psychologist, neuroscientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Justin S.
Rhodes (born March 26, 1972) is an American neuroscientist and a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is affiliated with the Neuroscience Program, Program of Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology, the Carl R.
Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Neurotech group at Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
After receiving a Bachelor of Science in biology at Stanford University, Rhodes obtained a PhD in zoology in 2002 from University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the supervision of Theodore Garland, Jr..
After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University, he held a position as an instructor at Lewis & Clark College for a year before accepting a full-time faculty position in 2005 in the biological division of the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois.
He is an emerging scientist in the field of neuroscience with research interests in exercise-induced hippocampal neurogenesis, neural circuitry involved in addictive behaviors, and brain plasticity in clownfish.