Liset M. de la Prida

Liset M. de la Prida, Ph.D. is a physicist and neuroscientist holding the position of Full Research Professor at the Instituto Cajal - CSIC in Spain. She has held visiting roles at UCL, MRC, Krasnow Institute, and ICM Paris, building a multidisciplinary expertise in brain function. Her lab investigates hippocampal microcircuit dynamics underlying memory in health and disease across species, including human studies. She is a leader in physiological/pathological brain oscillations, neurotechnology, and computational analysis of brain activity.

Affiliations & Roles:

• Group Leader, Instituto Cajal, CSIC (since 2008)
• Full Research Professor (since 2021)
• Scientific Advisory Board Member: C-BRAINS (Paris), NERF-IMEC (Leuven)
• Editorial Roles: Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Hippocampus, eLife, eNeuro
• Leadership in Spanish Societies of Epilepsy and Neuroscience, and FENS Programme Committees

Research Focus: Her work bridges hippocampal circuit architecture, spatial/episodic memory representation, and layer-specific CA1 dynamics. Techniques include manifold analysis, functional tagging, and machine learning to study memory trace geometry. She develops MRI contrast agents and neurotechnologies for non-invasive brain imaging.