German Cavelier, Ph.D.

Dr. Cavelier is the Chief of the Neurotechnology Program at the Division of Neurosciences in the National Institute of Mental Health. Previously, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Genome Center, Columbia University where he studied Genetic Regulatory Networks. Dr. Cavelier was a Professor of Electrical and Bioengineering and Vice-Dean for Research, School of Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia where he created a Bioengineering Program. More recently, Dr. Cavelier obtained a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics at The Johns Hopkins University where his work centered on Computational Molecular Mechanics and Quantum Chemistry Analysis of Enzymatic Mechanisms.