Caren Norden is a German biophysicist who is Deputy Director for Science at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.

She works as a group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

[1] She worked in the laboratory of Bettina Winckler in the Mount Sinai Health System.

[citation needed] Norden was made a group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in 2010.

[4] Norden's research considers the neural processes that underpin the formation of the vertebrate eye,[5] retinal neurogenesis and lamination.