Steve Maren, PhD

Steve Maren is a neuroscientist who studies the neurobiology of emotional learning and memory. He directs the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Maren's research program is broadly focused on understanding brain regions and circuits that are important for emotional learning and memory, including memories for traumatic events. His work has international reach, and he is among the most highly cited behavioral neuroscientists in the world. 
Maren previously served as University Distinguished Professor and Charles H. Gregory Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He was also affiliated with TAMU’s Institute for Neuroscience. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1995. He has mentored 37 graduate students and postdocs and serves on the editorial board of Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Learning & Memory, and Hippocampus. He also has extensive administrative experience. At TAMU, he served as the Dean’s Research Fellow, and Chair of the Council of Principal Investigators, while at Michigan he led the Neuroscience Graduate Program. 
Education


B.S., psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989


M.S., neurobiology, University of Southern California, 1991


Ph.D., neurobiology, University of Southern California, 1993