Kevin Mitchell, PhD profile page

Dr. Kevin Mitchell is an associate professor of genetics and neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. Mitchell received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. He was an EMBO Young Investigator and was elected to Fellowship of Trinity College in 2009. He served as associate director of undergraduate science education at Trinity College Dublin from 2016-18. Mitchell’s research is focused on schizophrenia, autism and variation in perception, including synesthesia. His group has discovered numerous genes involved in specifying neuronal connectivity in the developing brain and shown that mutations in such genes in mice can lead to neurological and behavioral symptoms, modeling aspects of epilepsy, psychosis and ADHD.