NEUROBIOLOGY · PERCEPTION · NATURAL BEHAVIOR

Zhexin Brian Xu

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School

CV
Zhexin Xu

Hi there! I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, working with Bob Datta.

I completed my PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester with Greg DeAngelis, studying motion and depth perception during self-motion. Before that, I was trained in mechanical engineering and visual psychophysics.

Outside of science, I enjoy bird watching, swimming, photography, and traveling.

RESEARCH THEMES

How does the brain organize natural behavior?

My work asks how perception, neural circuits, and internal needs shape the way animals move through the world.

natural behavior

Selected publications

  2. Allocentric and egocentric cues constitute an internal reference frame for real-world visual search
    Yan Chen* & Zhe-Xin Xu*
    eLife, 2025
    DOI PDF Best Poster Award