Marlene Cohen
American neuroscientist
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- Cohen received bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University, where she investigated how interactions between neurons depend on behavioral and attentional states, working in collaboration with William Newsome’s lab.
- She conducted postdoctoral research in John Maunsell’s lab at Harvard Medical School, using attention as a tool to probe which aspects of population codes are behaviorally relevant.
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Academic Positions
- Cohen joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 2011, where she continued her work on population coding in visual cortex.
- In 2022, she moved to the University of Chicago, where she holds appointments as Professor of Neurobiology and is affiliated with the Neuroscience Institute.
- She serves on the Committee on Computational Neuroscience and the Committee on Neurobiology at the University of Chicago.
Selected Awards
- Klingenstein Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences (2012).
- Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology, grand prize winner (2012).
- McKnight Scholar Award (2015).
- Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences (2018).
- In 2025, she was named the inaugural recipient of the Robert H. Wurtz Award and Lecture in Systems Neuroscience.
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