Kathleen E. Cullen is an American–Canadian

biomedical engineer Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

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. She is known for her work combining computational and systems neuroscience to understand how the brain encodes and processes self-motion (vestibular) information to ensure the maintenance of balance and stable perception. Her research also focuses on extending this knowledge to further advance the development of novel diagnostic tools, treatments, training, and rehabilitative strategies for patients. Cullen is the Raj and Neera Singh Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and professor of Neuroscience and Otolaryngology at

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. She is the co-director of the Center for Hearing and Balance at the

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and

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. She is also the current president for the Society for the Neural Control of Movement and served on the steering committee for NASA’s Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023-2032.

Education

Cullen completed a B.S. degree in neuroscience and biomedical engineering at

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in 1984 and a Ph.D. at the

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in 1991 with Robert A. McCrea and Jay M. Goldberg.

Career

Cullen was a postdoctoral fellow at the

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of McGill University from 1991 to 1993. In 1994, she joined the Department of Physiology at

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as an assistant professor, with concurrent appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, and Otolaryngology. She became an associate professor in 2000 and a full professor in 2006. While at McGill, Cullen was also director of McGill's Aerospace Medical Research Unit and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the NASA-associated National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI, USA). In 2016, Cullen moved to Johns Hopkins University, where she is currently a professor in biomedical engineering and maintains joint appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.

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