Our Team

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    Danique Jeurissen

    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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  • Amanda Blanchard

    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 is joining 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.

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    Eve Mendelevich

    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)!

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    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.

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    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.