[1][2] He studies Drosophila flight control systems and sensory processing and was dubbed the Fly Guy by The Scientist.
[3] Dickinson was born in Seaford, Delaware, in 1963 but grew up in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia.
[5] He did his postdoctoral work with Karl Georg Götz at the University of Tübingen.
[8] He was at California Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2011 before moving to the University of Washington for 2010 to 2014.
[10] He was a course director of the Neural Systems and Behavior course at the Marine Biological Laboratory.