Paul Glimcher

Paul W. Glimcher (born November 3, 1961) is an American neuroeconomist, neuroscientist, psychologist, and economist. He is the Julius Silver Professor of Neural Science at New York University and has held leadership roles in NYU's neuroscience programs, including Director of the Neuroscience Institute at NYU Langone Health and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology. His research has focused on neural mechanisms of decision-making and the development of neuroeconomics.

Glimcher co-founded NYU's Institute for the Study of Decision Making (ISDM) and helped establish the Center for Neuroeconomics, which later became ISDM. He also helped launch the HUMAN Project, a longitudinal research initiative, and co-founded Datacubed Health, a software company supporting behavioral and clinical research.