Michale S. Fee

Michale S. Fee is Department Head and Glen V. and Phyllis F. Dorflinger Professor of Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and an investigator at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He joined the MIT faculty in 2003.

Fee's lab at McGovern seeks to understand how the brain generates and learns complex sequential behaviors. Using a combination of techniques—behavior, electrophysiology, and optical imaging—the goal of the research is to develop an engineering level mechanistic description of the neuronal circuits that produce these behaviors.

Michale received a B.E. in Engineering Physics from the School of Engineering at the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Laboratories in the Biological Computation Research Department and then became a permanent member of technical staff (PI) at Bell Labs, at which time he began working on the mechanisms of vocal sequence generation in the songbird.