Christof Koch

Christof Koch, PhD, is known for his work exploring the substrate of consciousness in humans, animals, and machines, starting with his collaboration with Francis Crick from 1988 until his death in 2014. A physicist and neurobiologist, Koch was, for more than a quarter of a century, a professor of biology and engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He became Chief Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Sci­ence in Seattle in 2011 and President in 2015. Koch remains at the Allen Institute, now as a Meritorious Investigator. He is also Chief Scientist of the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation in Santa Monica. Koch’s last book is Then I Am Myself the World. A vegetarian, cyclist, and a fan of big dogs and Der Ring des Nibelungen, he lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest. For more information, visit his website at www.christofkoch.com.