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Charles Edward "Ed" Connor Jr. (born 13 August 1955) is an American neuroscientist, who has made important contributions to the neuroscience of object synthesis in higher-level visual cortex. From 2009 he has been a Professor of Neuroscience at  Johns Hopkins University. In 2007 Connor was appointed Director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Connor has interests in neuroaesthetics, the relation between neuroscience and beauty.

Education
Connor completed a B.S. in Biology at Loyola University Maryland  in 1978, an  M.S. at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1982 and a PhD at  Johns Hopkins University in 1990 under Dr Ken Johnson.

Career
Connor pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher with Gian Poggio and Mike Steinmetz at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1990–1992), with David van Essen  at  California Institute of Technology and Washington University School of Medicine (1992-1996) before joining the faculty of  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1996.

Personal life
Since 2002, Connor has been married to Amy Bastian  who is  a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and they have one son.