Iris Groen

Iris Groen is an Assistant Professor (tenured) and MacGillavry Fellow at the Video & Image Sense Lab, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (UvA). She is also affiliated with the Department of Brain and Cognition at the UvA's Psychology Research Institute.

Education:

• PhD (2014) and MSc (2009) from the University of Amsterdam
• MSc thesis completed at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) under supervision of Morgan Barense

Her research focuses on understanding vision in the human brain using multimodal neuroimaging techniques (EEG, fMRI, ECoG) and computational models, particularly deep neural networks. The team investigates neural representations in visual cortex regions and aims to improve AI by leveraging bio-inspired computations from human perception.

Scientific Awards:

• MacGillavry Fellowship (Faculty of Science, UvA)
• NWO Rubicon Fellowship (2014-2017)

She has received funding from the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research (NWO), interdisciplinary PhD programme grants from UvA's Data Science Center, and the ELLIS unit Amsterdam. Prior positions included postdoctoral roles at New York University (BRAIN Initiative project, 2017-2020) and the National Institutes of Mental Health (2014-2017).