Meet Prof. Oscar Marín
Oscar Marín is a Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London. He graduated in Biology and obtained a PhD in Neuroscience from Universidad Complutense in Madrid (ES), followed by postdoctoral training at UCSF. He was a group leader at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante before joining King’s in 2014. In 2005, he was selected as one of the founding members of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, where he served until 2010. Prof. Marín is a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He serves on several editorial boards, including the Board of Reviewing Editors at Science, and has received multiple prizes, including the FENS-EJN Young Investigator Prize (2012), Prix Roger de Spoelberch (2014), and the Cajal Medal from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (2017).