Daniel O’Connor

Daniel O’Connor

Professor of Neuroscience

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Research Interests: Neural circuits for active touch

Education: Ph.D. Princeton University

Dr. Daniel O’Connor is  professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a researcher at the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. He works on the senses of touch and proprioception. 

Dr. O’Connor received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at Princeton University in 2006. After postdoctoral training at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dr. O’Connor joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012. Dr. O’Connor’s laboratory moved to the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute in 2020.