John McGann, PhD

Dr. John McGann is an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University. He directs a research laboratory that studies the olfactory system in humans and mice, including both the neural mechanisms by which the brain interprets odors and the psychological and perceptual effects of olfactory experience. His recent paper in Science titled “Poor Human Olfaction is a 19th Century Myth” received international media attention and was included in Discover Magazine’s Top Stories of 2017. He was awarded the Young Investigator Award in Olfaction from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences in 2016. Dr. McGann’s research is funded by grants from the National Institute on Mental Health and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, parts of the federal National Institutes of Health. Dr. McGann teaches courses on the psychology of sensation and perception, scientific research design and communication, neuroscience methods, sensory neuroscience, and computational neuroscience at Rutgers, which recently honored him with the Distinguished Contribution to Undergraduate Education Award.