BSC Member - Jennifer M. Groh, Ph.D.

Jennifer M. Groh, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, where she is a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. Dr. Groh is most well known for her work blending computational and experimental approaches to understand fundamental mechanisms of spatial representations in the brain. She is the author of the book “Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are” (2014, Harvard University Press). Among her honors are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a McKnight Scholar Award, a John Merck Scholars award, an EJLB Foundation Research Grant, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and keynote addresses at numerous conferences.