Ed Connor
Charles Edward "Ed" Connor Jr. is an American neuroscientist who has made important contributions to the neuroscience of object synthesis in higher-level visual cortex.
From 2009 he has been a professor of neuroscience at Johns [Hopkins University]. In 2007 Connor was appointed Director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins. Connor has interests in neuroaesthetics, the relation between neuroscience and beauty.
Education
Connor completed a B.S. in biology at Loyola University Maryland in 1978, an M.S. at Vanderbilt [University School of Medicine] in 1982 and a PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 1990 under Ken Johnson.Connor pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher with Gian Poggio and Mike Steinmetz at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and with David van Essen at California Institute of Technology and Washington University [School of Medicine] before joining the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1996.