AD Craig, Junior. is an American neuroanatomist and neuroscientist.
Education
Craig attended Michigan State University from which he earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in June 1973. He completed his doctorate degree at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and electrical engineering and received a Doctor of Philosophy in January 1978. He worked with Daniel North. Tapper, Doctor of Philosophy on electrophysiology of somatosensory processing in the spinal cord.
Career
The title of his thesis was "Anatomic and Electrophysiologic Studies on the Lateral Cervical Nucleus in Cat and Dog”. Following graduate school, Craig spent two years in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri as a post-doctoral fellow and one year in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology as Associate. In 1981 he moved to Germany to become "Wissenschaftlicher Assistent" (Associate) in the Department of Physiology at the University of Kiel and then in 1983 Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (Assistant Professor) at the University of Würzburg in the Department of Physiology.
In 1986 Craig joined Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) to direct the Atkinson Pain Laboratory
He was awarded with Doctor of Medicine (Doctor of Medicine), honoris causa, from Linköping University in 2001.
He received the Kenneth Craik Award in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Craig holds appointments as Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University.