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Adam Steel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research investigates how the brain's visual perception and spatial memory systems coordinate through precision neuroscience approaches combining ultra-high field neuroimaging, computational modeling, and virtual reality.

He completed his PhD at the University of Oxford and postdoctoral training at Dartmouth College. His work has been published in Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience, and other leading journals. He is a recipient of the Brain and Behavior Foundation Young Investigator Award. He is a former Fellow of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science and an NIH-Oxford Scholar.

Outside the lab, Adam has two children and is a marathon and ultra-marathon runner.