Stephen Maren

[1] He has discovered brain circuits regulating context-dependent memory, including mapping functional connections between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala that are involved in the expression and extinction of learned fear responses.

[2] His undergraduate research resulted in an honors thesis that described, for the first time, the activity of basolateral amygdala neurons during this form of learning.

[4] Maren received his post-doctoral training with Michael S. Fanselow at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1993 to 1996.

[7] Maren joined the faculty of University of Michigan in 1996 as an assistant professor in the Biopsychology Area in the Department of Psychology.

[11] In 2024, he joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as the Director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology[12] Maren has received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience) in 2001[2] and the D. O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in 2017,[13] both from the American Psychological Association.