Oscar Marín
Spanish neuroscientist (born 1971)
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Education
Oscar Marín was born in Madrid and received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and later his PhD in neuroscience. He then undertook postdoctoral training with María Ángela Nieto at the Instituto Cajal and John L. Rubenstein and Marc Tessier-Lavigne at the University of California in San Francisco.
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Research and career
Before being appointed Professor of Neuroscience at King's College London in 2014, Marín started his career at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante (Spain) between 2003 and 2014. He has directed the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's since 2014, and the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders since 2016.
Marín is known for his discoveries concerning the specification, migration, and wiring of neurons in the cerebral cortex, with special reference to the development of inhibitory interneurons. These discoveries have provided a novel conceptual paradigm, linking aberrant brain development with the origin of neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia.