Kriegeskorte is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Columbia University. He is an affiliated member of the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also a Principal Investigator and Director of Cognitive Imaging at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Kriegeskorte is a co-founder of the conference “Cognitive Computational Neuroscience”, which had its inaugural meeting in September 2017 at Columbia University. Kriegeskorte received his MA from the University of Cologne in Germany, did his Ph.D. thesis research at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota and at the US National Institute of Mental Health. From 2009 to 2017, he was a Programme Leader at the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK.