Dr. Yusuke MURAYAMA obtained his B.S. (1991) and M.S. (1993) degrees in Engineering at Osaka University (Toyonaka, Japan), where he investigated synaptic plasticity at the inhibitory synapses of the goldfish Mauthner cell.  He received his Ph.D. degree (1999) in Medial Science at Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University (Suita, Japan), where he investigated synaptic plasticity in the macaque neocortices under the supervision of Dr. Ichiro FUJITA. In 1999, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tuebingen, Germany).  He continued his career initially as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Nikos K. LOGOTHETIS and from 2002 started working as a research scientist.  There he used combined multiple techniques of electrophysiological recordings, electric microstimulation, pharmacological injection and functional magnetic imaging in anesthetized and awake monkey, to understand how neural signals propagate among cortical areas and how the brain organize its functional states.

In September 2021, he joined the International Center for Primate Brain Research (ICPBR), Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in Shanghai, China.  He is the co-PI of the laboratory of Physiology of Cognitive Process headed by Prof. Nikos K. LOGOTHETIS.

Studying the brain simultaneously at different spatiotemporal scales (e.g. electrophysiological recording, fMRI); Intra-, inter-areal signal propagations in the brain; Visual perception and action.