Susana Martinez-Conde

Susana Martinez-Conde
Susana Martinez-Conde receiving the Science Educator Award from the Society for Neuroscience, 2014. Credit: Joe Shymanski, Society for Neuroscience
Born	Susana Martinez-Conde October 1, 1969 A Coruña, Spain
Nationality	Spanish, American
Fields	Neuroscience, Science Writing
Institutions	Harvard Medical School, University College London, Barrow Neurological Institute, State University of New York
Alma mater	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Harvard University
Known for	Illusions, art and visual perception, attention and awareness, Books: Sleights of Mind
Notable awards	Science Educator of the Year - Society for Neuroscience

Susana Martinez-Conde (born October 1, 1969) is a neuroscientist and science writer. She is a professor of ophthalmology, neurology, and physiology & pharmacology at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, where she directs the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience. She directed laboratories previously at the Barrow Neurological Institute and University College London. Her research bridges perceptual, cognitive, and oculomotor neuroscience. She is best known for her studies on illusions, eye movements and perception, neurological disorders, and attentional misdirection in stage magic.

Martinez-Conde was born in 1969 in A Coruña, Spain, to a merchant sailor father and a stay-at-home mother. Her maternal grandfather survived the sinking of the Castillo de Olite in 1939, during the Spanish Civil War.

She majored in experimental psychology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1992, and obtained her PhD in medicine and surgery from the neuroscience program at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in 1996. She received her postdoctoral training from the Nobel Laureate Prof. David Hubel at Harvard Medical School,

She became an instructor in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School in 2001. She then became lecturer in ophthalmology and laboratory director at University College London. In 2004, she returned to the United States as an assistant professor, and later, associate professor, at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, where she directed the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience. In 2014, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, as professor of ophthalmology, neurology, and physiology & pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where she directs the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience.