Welcome to the Institute for All Minds, located in Berkeley, California, USA. We conduct research to understand:
- How the brain causes consciousness, and
- How brain cells die to cause neurodegenerative disease.
The Institute's founder, Nikhil Bhatla, PhD, has focused on scientific methods for studying conscious experience since 2007. He received his BS at Stanford University in Product Design (Mechanical Engineering and Art) and a minor in Computer Science. Following several years working at Google, he received a PhD in Neuroscience from MIT, where he worked in a Nobel prize-winning lab. He then completed a postdoc at UCSF and UC Berkeley as a Miller Fellow, where he developed an innovative approach for studying conscious visual perception using mice (Acute requirement for the hippocampus in putatively conscious vision revealed by a mouse model of blindsight, Current Biology). In 2024, he started the Institute for All Minds to continue this work in an independent, fast-paced research organization.
We are currently hiring!
- Staff Scientist - Consciousness (requires PhD)
- Research Associate - Consciousness (requires Bachelor's)
- Staff Scientist - Neurodegeneration (requires PhD)
- Research Associate - Neurodegeneration (requires Bachelor's)
Inquiries, including your resume/CV and cover letter, can be sent to work@iam.science.