Amy Bastian


Amy Jo Bastian is an American neuroscientist, who has made important contributions to the neuroscience of sensorimotor control. From 2011 she has been a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. In 2015 Bastian was appointed Chief Science Officer at the Kennedy Krieger Institute

Education

Bastian completed a B.S. in Physical Therapy at the University of Oklahoma in 1990 and a PhD at Washington University in 1995 under Dr W. Thomas Thach.

Career

Bastian pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University before joining the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in 1998. in 2001, Bastian joined the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Awards and honours

Bastian is the daughter of neuroscientist , who worked at the University of Oklahoma, and his wife Christine Bastian.
Since 2002, Bastian has been married to who is a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and they have one son.