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  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Christof Koch is affiliated with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience, with an emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, and Neurology. The work encompasses various topics in the neural sciences such as Neural dynamics and brain function, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and Cell Image Analysis Techniques.

The scientist has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed papers, including prominent publications such as:

  • The Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework: A 3D Reference Atlas, 2020, Cell
  • Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse, 2021, Nature
  • Survey of spiking in the mouse visual system reveals functional hierarchy, 2021, Nature
  • Integrated Morphoelectric and Transcriptomic Classification of Cortical GABAergic Cells, 2020, Cell
  • Morphological diversity of single neurons in molecularly defined cell types, 2021, Nature

Frequent coauthors in their body of work include Shawn R. Olsen, Anton Arkhipov, Hongkui Zeng, Joshua H. Siegle, and Bosiljka Tasic.

Regular publication venues for this scientist's research are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuron, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, eLife, and Cell Reports.

Christof Koch has also authored a book titled Aufbruch in die Moderne published by Peter Lang in 2020.

Recognized by several scientific organizations, the awards received by this scientist include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1987

Best Publications

  • A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis

    L. Itti;C. Koch;E. Niebur

  • Computational modelling of visual attention.

    Laurent Itti;Christof Koch

  • Shifts in selective visual attention: towards the underlying neural circuitry.

    Christof Koch;Shimon Ullman

  • The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes

    György Buzsáki;Costas A. Anastassiou;Christof Koch;Christof Koch

  • A saliency-based search mechanism for overt and covert shifts of visual attention.

    Laurent Itti;Christof Koch

  • Graph-Based Visual Saliency

    Jonathan Harel;Christof Koch;Pietro Perona

  • Biophysics of computation : information processing in single neurons

    Christof Koch

  • An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome

    Michael J. Hawrylycz;Ed S. Lein;Angela L. Guillozet-Bongaarts;Elaine H. Shen

  • Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness

    Francis Crick;Christof Koch

  • A mesoscale connectome of the mouse brain

    Seung Wook Oh;Julie A. Harris;Lydia Ng;Brent Winslow

  • Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain

    R. Quian Quiroga;L. Reddy;Gabriel Kreiman;C. Koch

  • Fully integrated silicon probes for high-density recording of neural activity

    James J Jun;Nicholas A Steinmetz;Nicholas A Steinmetz;Nicholas A Steinmetz;Joshua H Siegle;Daniel J Denman

  • The highly irregular firing of cortical cells is inconsistent with temporal integration of random EPSPs

    William R. Softky;Christof Koch

  • A framework for consciousness

    Francis Crick;Christof Koch

  • Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas

    Bosiljka Tasic;Zizhen Yao;Lucas T. Graybuck;Kimberly A. Smith

  • The quest for consciousness : a neurobiological approach

    Christof Koch

  • Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics

    Bosiljka Tasic;Vilas Menon;Thuc Nghi Nguyen;Tae Kyung Kim

  • 2006 Special Issue: Modeling attention to salient proto-objects

    Dirk Walther;Christof Koch

  • The Quest for Consciousness

    Christof Koch

  • Conserved cell types with divergent features in human versus mouse cortex.

    Rebecca D. Hodge;Trygve E. Bakken;Jeremy A. Miller;Kimberly A. Smith

  • Neural correlates of consciousness: progress and problems

    Christof Koch;Marcello Massimini;Melanie Boly;Giulio Tononi

Frequent Co-Authors

Hongkui Zeng
Hongkui Zeng Allen Institute for Brain Science
Itzhak Fried
Itzhak Fried University of California, Los Angeles
Ed S. Lein
Ed S. Lein University of Washington
Stefan Mihalas
Stefan Mihalas Allen Institute for Brain Science
Michael Hawrylycz
Michael Hawrylycz Allen Institute for Brain Science
Amy Bernard
Amy Bernard Kavli Foundation
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga University of Leicester
Lydia Ng
Lydia Ng Allen Institute for Brain Science
Jonathan T. Ting
Jonathan T. Ting Allen Institute for Brain Science

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