My lab and I seek to elucidate the neural basis of emotion (affective neuroscience), and explore implications for decision-making (neuroeconomics) and psychopathology (neurophenomics).
Trained in the French school of Data Analysis in Montpellier, Susan Holmes has been working in non-parametric multivariate statistics applied to biology since 1985. She has taught at MIT, Harvard and was an Associate Professor of Biometry at Cornell before moving to Stanford in 1998. She created the Thinking Matters class: Breaking Codes and Finding patterns, and she likes working on big messy data sets, mostly from the areas of Immunology, Cancer Biology and Microbial Ecology.