Mike Wiest, Ph.D., graduated from high school in Kenya, East Africa, then returned to the United States to earn a BA in physics at Dartmouth College in 1991, and a PhD in high-energy theoretical physics at Michigan State University in 1998.
Excited by the Orch OR quantum theory of consciousness, he spent the next 10 years learning neuroscience as a postdoc in computational neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and behavioral neurophysiology at Duke University. He is now an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where he has been teaching and conducting chronic multi-electrode recording experiments in awake behaving rodents since 2008.
