Nikolay "Niko" Kukushkin is a Russian-born, New York-based neuroscientist and clinical associate professor at NYU.

Kukushkin's research asks how time patterns of experience determine which memories are formed, and which ones are forgotten.

A “Molecular Philosopher” who shows how the very small illuminates the very big, he makes unexpected connections between the building blocks of living nature and the eternal questions that define humanity.

An emerging voice in neuroscience, molecular biology, evolution, and philosophy, his innovative scholarship and exuberant writing celebrates the mystery of human consciousness and the meaning of life on Earth.