Adrienne Fairhall is a University Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and an adjunct Professor in the Departments of Physics and Applied Mathematics, as well as the director of the Computational Neuroscience Program at the University of Washington.
[2] She then joined the lab of Itamar Procaccia at the Weizmann Institute of Science where she completed a masters and PhD in physics.
[3] Fairhall held postdoctoral positions at the NEC Corporation with William Bialek and in Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology before being appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Washington's Department of Physiology and Biophysics in 2004, where she is now a full professor.
She serves as the co-director of the University of Washington Computational Neuroscience Program and previously as co-director of the University of Washington Institute for Neuroengineering[4][5] Fairhall has also been involved in a number of computational neuroscience educational programs and workshops; she directed the Methods in Computational Neuroscience course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, co-founded the Summer Workshop for the Dynamic Brain, a summer course in collaboration with the Allen Institute on Friday Harbor, and with Rajesh Rao, co-created a Coursera course on computational neuroscience.
[6] Fairhall is married to Blaise Agüera y Arcas, whom she met at the Methods in Computational Neuroscience summer course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and with whom she has two children.