Principal Investigator

Danique studied Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. During her graduate work at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam she studied object perception. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University and studied higher cognitive functions in primates. She started the Jeurissen lab at NYU in January 2025.
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Senior Research Technician

Amanda received her Bachelor’s degree from SUNY Delhi in Veterinary Technology Management. She has experience as an animal health and laboratory technician at Rockefeller University and the University of Rochester. She then moved to Columbia University to work as a Veterinary Technologist and later a compliance and training coordinator at the IACUC department. She joined the lab in March 2025. Amanda will train animals, assist with experiments, and is in charge of the day-to-day research activities in the lab. She enjoys working with animals, providing them with enrichment, and doing science.

Research Technician

Eve received her B.A. in Psychology from NYU, where she focused on cognitive neuroscience while working on her undergraduate honor's thesis on the effects of acute stress on memory. She then continued to study memory and sleep at UMass Amherst as a research assistant before focusing on web development and software engineering. She joined the lab in February 2025 and is excited to bring her technical experience from the world of private startups back to her true love - scientific research (and animals)!

Postdoctoral researcher

Xuefei grew up dreaming of speaking with animals, inspired by the legend of the Seal of Solomon. As she grew older, this fascination evolved into a scientific curiosity about deciphering the brain across species. Driven by this vision, Xuefei pursued her Ph.D. at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she studied how self-motion signals are encoded by single neurons and decoded to guide perceptual decisions. As a postdoc, she continued her scientific journey at the National Institutes of Health. There, she used pathway selective optogenetics to explore the functional role of neural circuits. Joining the lab in late 2025, she will continue her pursuit to unravel the complexity of brain circuits using cutting-edge techniques. She believes neuroscience holds the key to understanding, and perhaps one day even communicating with other species. Outside the lab, Xuefei enjoys running, hiking, reading, caring for pets, playing video games, and exploring the world with family and friends.

Undergraduate research assistant

Alice is a rising senior at NYU, majoring in neural science with a minor in psychology. She joined the Jeurissen lab in June 2025, where she is excited to explore the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) and its role in eye movement control and neural recovery processes in animals. Alice has a strong passion for working with animals and is eager to contribute to ongoing research. Outside the lab, she enjoys drama, visiting museums, and spending time with her puppy.

Lab mascot

M’lady grew up in a tight-knit Rhesus Macaque colony on a banana farm in Paris, practicing ballet in her free time. While she initially went to university to study dance, she took a fascinating course in neuroscience and realized she had a difficult decision to make. She decided to double-major to continue learning about flexible behavior. Her favorite experimental task is the random dot motion task (the dots look like they’re dancing, too!), with the time-delay task as a close second.

Scientist

If you are interested in joining the lab as a staff scientist, postdoctoral researcher, technician, lab manager, or undergraduate student, please learn more here.

Graduate student

If you are interested in joining the lab as a graduate student, please learn more about the NYU graduate program in Neuroscience here.