Eve Marder

Eve Marder is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield University Professor at Brandeis University. She obtained a B.A. degree from Brandeis University in 1969, a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1974, and did postdoctoral research at the University of Oregon and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France before assuming her faculty position in 1978. Marder was President of the Society for Neuroscience (2008), and on the NINDS Council, National Academy of Sciences Council, numerous Study Sections, and Advisory Boards for institutions in the USA and abroad. Marder is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Biophysical Society, the American Physiological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received the Miriam Salpeter Memorial Award for Women in Neuroscience, the W.F. Gerard Prize from the Society for Neuroscience, the George A. Miller Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the Karl Spencer Lashley Prize from the American Philosophical Society, Honorary Doctorates from Bowdoin College, and Tel Aviv University, the Gruber Award in Neuroscience, the Education Award from the Society for Neuroscience, the Kavli Award in Neuroscience. and the National Academy of Sciences Award in Neuroscience. Marder served on the NIH working group for the Obama BRAIN Initiative and is now on the BRAIN advisory Council. Marder has served on many journal editorial boards. She was Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Neurophysiology, and was a Senior and then Deputy Editor at eLife for its first 6 years.