Randy Buckner is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Harvard University. He is affiliated with the Center for Brain Science and is Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital. From 2000 to 2012, he was a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. ^[1]

His research theme is centered around exploring human brain network organization and studying the genetic basis of individual differences in brain organization and neuropsychiatric disorders. ^[2]

His research group helped propose the "tethering hypothesis" - the hypothesis that as the human brain increased in size, the older areas of the cortex started to wire up with each other to form the "association cortices". ^[3]