Dr. Sliman Bensmaia worked as professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. He received a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia in 1995, and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 2003. Dr. Bensmaia  is also a member of the Committees on Neurobiology and on Computational Neuroscience.