Founded in the spring of 2004, the PNI serves as a "stimulus for teaching and research in neuroscience and related fields" and "places particular emphasis on the close connection between theory, modeling, and experimentation using the most advanced technologies.

[3] Tank joined Princeton's faculty in 2001, where he specializes in physics-based measurement techniques to study the nervous system.

Both are designed for undergraduate students interested in a wide variety of fields, such as molecular biology, psychology, chemistry, and applied mathematics.

Exceptional undergraduate students may qualify for a number of research awards, including the James M. Shapiro ’80 Fund for Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience, the Nancy J. Newman, MD ’78 & Valerie Biousse, MD Senior Thesis Research Fund for Neuroscience, and the Sanda & Jeremiah Lambert ’55 Fund for Undergraduate Neuroscience, in Honor of Clare Lambert ’08 and Hilary Lambert ‘10.

Prospective applicants may work in a number of other related departments, including Psychology, Molecular Biology, or Philosophy.

The Center hosts a number of custom-built optical instrumentation for large-scale monitoring and optogenetic perturbation of neural activity.