| Michael Dickinson | |
| Birth Name: | Michael H. Dickinson |
| Birth Place: | Seaford, Delaware, U.S. |
| Education: | Brown University (BS) University of Washington (PhD) |
| Occupation: | Biologist |
| Awards: | Larry Sandler Memorial Award (1990) |
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Michael H. Dickinson (born 1963) is an American fly bioengineer and neuroscientist, and Zarem Professor of Biology and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology.[1] [2] He studies Drosophila flight control systems and sensory processing and was dubbed the Fly Guy by The Scientist.[3]
Dickinson was born in Seaford, Delaware, in 1963 but grew up in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia.[4] He graduated from Brown University with a B.S. in 1984, and from University of Washington with a Ph.D. in 1989.[5] He did his postdoctoral work with Karl Georg Götz at the University of Tübingen.[6]
He was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 1991,[7] before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996.[8] He was at California Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2011 before moving to the University of Washington for 2010 to 2014.[9] He is now back at Caltech.
He is a Monitoring Editor at the Journal of Experimental Biology.[10] He was a course director of the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory.[11]