Dr Marlies Oostland

Marlies Oostland is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow with an overall interest in neuronal computations underlying cognition, including learning, working memory, and the relation with autism. Specifically, she is interested in how cerebellar and neocortical networks perform and interact to transform experiences from the outside world into accurate behavioUral output. She joined the Häusser lab in 2021, where she collaborates on an ongoing project to develop tools to analyse in vivo electrophysiology data from cerebellar Neuropixels recordings.

Previously, she did postdoctoral research in the lab of Prof. Sam Wang at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, where she was also part of BRAIN COGS, a 7-lab collaboration studying decision-making. As part of her Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, she worked with Prof. Michael Brecht at the Humboldt University Berlin to study kin recognition in human cannibals. Before going to Princeton, she did postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh in the labs of Prof. Matt Nolan and Prof. Ian Duguid. She completed postgraduate training at the University of Amsterdam, which included a research project at the University of Cambridge.

In her spare time she enjoys playing cello and musical saw (unrelated to the cannibalism project)