Amy Bastian

Amy Bastian

Born	Amy Jo Bastian (1968-07-23) 23 July 1968 South Bend, Indiana
Residence	Baltimore, Maryland
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Washington University School of Medicine
Alma mater	University of Oklahoma (BS)
Thesis	Damage of the human cerebellum (1995)
Doctoral advisor	W. Thomas Thach
Doctoral students	Catherine Lang Gammon Earhart Valerie Kelly Susanne Morton Julia Choi Hannah Block Christina Fuentes Nasir Bhanpuri Laura Malone Gowri Jayaram Alex Vazquez Heidi Weeks Andrew Long Kevin Day Amanda Edwards
Spouse	Ed Connor
Website Bastian website

Amy Jo Bastian (born 23 July 1968) is an American neuroscientist, who has made important contributions to the neuroscience of sensorimotor control.^[1] From 2011 she has been a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University.^[2] In 2015 Bastian was appointed Chief Science Officer at the Kennedy Krieger Institute^[3]

Education

Bastian completed a B.S. in Physical Therapy at the University of Oklahoma in 1990 and a PhD at Washington University in 1995 under Dr W. Thomas Thach.

Bastian is the daughter of neuroscientist Joseph Bastian, who worked at the University of Oklahoma, and his wife Christine Bastian.

Since 2002, Bastian has been married to Ed Connor who is a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and they have one son.

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