Amy Bastian

Amy Jo Bastian (born July 23, 1968) is an American neuroscientist, who has made important contributions to the neuroscience of sensorimotor control.^[1] From 2011 she has been a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.^[2] In 2015 Bastian was appointed Chief Science Officer at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.^[3] Bastian is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Amy Bastian
Born	Amy Jo Bastian (1968-07-23) 23 July 1968 (age 57) South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Oklahoma Washington University
Spouse	Ed Connor
Awards	National Academy of Sciences (2023)
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Washington University School of Medicine
Thesis	Damage of the human cerebellum  (1995)
Doctoral advisor	W. Thomas Thach
Website	Bastian website

Education

Dr. Bastian completed a B.S. in Physical Therapy at the University of Oklahoma in 1990. She completed her doctoral degree in movement science at Washington University in St. Louis in 1995 then her postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience under Dr W. Thomas Thach.

Career

Dr. Bastian pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher (1995–1997) at Washington University before joining the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in 1998. in 2001, Bastian joined the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.She is currently the Chief Science Officer of the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She frequently collaborates with Dr. Ryan Roemmich of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who currently serves as the director of the Center for Movement Studies at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Bastian was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Awards and honours

• 1999 APTA- Eugene Michels New Investigator Award
• 2007 Susanne Klein-Vogelbach Award for Research of Human Movement (Switzerland)
• 2007 American Physical Therapy Association- Neurology Section Research Award
• 2014 Javits award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• 2014 Special lecture Society for Neuroscience
• 2023 Inducted into the National Academy of Sciences ^[4]

Filmography

Dr. Bastian appeared on Season 3 Episode 8 of Brain Games, which premiered in 2014 on National Geographic^[5]. She was featured in Bill Nye: Science Guy in 2018. ^[6]

Personal life

Bastian is the daughter of neuroscientist Joseph Bastian, who worked at the University of Oklahoma, and Christine Bastian.

Since 2002, Bastian has been married to Ed Connor, who is a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and they have one son.