Sabine Kastner

Sabine Kastner is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Princeton University. Kastner is also the Scientific Director of Princeton’s neuroimaging (PNI) facility. She studies the neural basis of visual perception, attention, and awareness in the healthy, adult primate brain, and in patients with brain lesions and during development.

Kastner has published more than 150 articles in journals and books, edited the Handbook of Attention, and is Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Neurobiology and Frontiers for Young Minds/Understanding Neuroscience and incoming Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuroscience.

Kastner engages in public outreach through her Educational Neuroscience for the 21st Century program which includes teacher seminars, public school outreach, events at PNI, and parent support groups for neurodevelopmental disability. She was recognized by the Society for Neuroscience’s 2019 Award for Education in Neuroscience.

Kastner earned an M.D. degree from the Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf and received a Ph.D. degree in neurophysiology from the Georg-August University, Goettingen. She conducted postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen and an internship in psychiatry, and was at NIMH before Princeton.