Miguel Eckstein awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Prof. Eckstein honored as a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow.
Miguel Eckstein is one of two UCSB scientists who received a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. The prestigious awards are given to those whose work adds “to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding.”
“I am grateful and humbled for being selected from among what are surely many equally deserving candidates,” Eckstein said. “The Guggenheim Fellowship is unique and holds a special place — an honor that scientists share with artists, writers and musicians.”
As a Guggenheim fellow, Prof. Eckstein plans to travel to India to study a large cohort of children recovering from congenital blindness after surgery in order to understand how eye movement behavior during childhood development shapes brain mechanisms mediating face recognition.
