Liset M. de la Prida is a physicist with a PhD in Neuroscience and currently serves as Director of the Centro de Neurociencias Cajal (CNC), CSIC. She trained in leading international laboratories, including those of David Brown and Michael Häusser (UCL, UK), Leon Lagnado (MRC, UK), and Steven J. Schiff (USA), acquiring a multidisciplinary background to study brain function across scales. Following postdoctoral work with Richard Miles (Paris), she established her research group at the Instituto Cajal (CSIC) in 2008 and was appointed Full Research Professor in 2021.
Her work aims to uncover the circuit mechanisms by which hippocampal dynamics shape memory and behavior across species, including humans.
Liset is internationally recognized for her work on physiological and pathological brain oscillations, and for developing innovative neurotechnologies combined with computational and machine learning approaches to analyze brain activity. She has received the 2026 Suffrage Science Award for Life Sciences, recognizing both her scientific excellence and leadership.
She has contributed to numerous Scientific Advisory Boards and evaluation panels, including C-BRAINS (Paris) and NERF-IMEC (Leuven). She has served as Editor for leading journals such as Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Hippocampus, Journal of Neuroscience, eLife, and eNeuro. In addition, she has held leadership roles in major scientific organizations, including the American Epilepsy Society, the Spanish Society of Epilepsy, the Spanish Society for Neuroscience, and Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, where she chaired the Programme Committee for FENS Forum 2024.