She earned her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Boston University, followed by postdoctoral work at U. C. San Diego and Harvard University. Dr. Haas has received awards as a young investigator from the Brain and Behavior Foundation and the Whitehall Foundation. Dr. Haas’s work seeks to understand the relationships between electrical synapse strength, activity and synchrony in neuronal circuits that include coupled neurons, and the more abstract process of attention that is controlled by electrically coupled neurons in the thalamus.