Michael Platt Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor

Michael Platt has been named the University of Pennsylvania’s 16th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, effective July 1. 

The announcement was made today by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.

Platt is a world-renowned neuroscientist whose research focuses on how the brain makes decisions. He will be the James S. Riepe University Professor, with appointments in the Department of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine, the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Marketing in the Wharton School.

“Michael’s research,” Gutmann said, “creatively examines some of the most complex, fascinating and fundamental questions regarding individual decision-making and behavior, including why different people make different decisions and how individuals adapt their decision-making under uncertainty and in social situations. He has brought together innovative scholars and researchers from a multitude of relevant disciplines, and his presence at Penn will productively bridge our Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences and Wharton School in pathbreaking areas of neuroscience. Best known for his studies of decision-making, social cognition and attention, Michael exemplifies Penn’s commitment to integrating knowledge in order to address both timely and timeless questions of great societal impact.”

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