Eve Marder, PhD

Eve Marder, PhD, is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield University Professor at Brandeis University and past president of the Society for Neuroscience (2008). Marder earned a BA from Brandeis University in 1969 and her PhD from UCSD in 1974. Marder conducted her postdoc at the University of Oregon and Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France and has been a faculty member at Brandies since 1978. She is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, and American Philosophical Society, has won the Gruber Prize, Kavli Prize, NAS Neuroscience Prize, and Gerard Prize, and holds honorary doctorates from Bowdoin College, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University, and Universite de Liege. Marder was instrumental in demonstrating that neuronal circuits are not “hard-wired” but can be reconfigured by neuromodulatory neurons and substances, and in developing the dynamic clamp and models of intrinsic homeostasis.