Iris Groen is an assistant-professor at the VIS lab. Her research focuses on how the human brain understands real-world scenes and videos. She studies visual perception in the human brain by combining human brain imaging techniques such as M/EEG, fMRI, and ECoG with computational models, ranging from neurophysiologically-informed visual encoding models to deep neural networks developed in AI. Before returning to UvA as an assistant-professor, she completed two post-docs in the USA, at the National Institutes of Health (with Chris Baker) and at New York University (with Jonathan Winawer). Her research is funded by a MacGillavry Fellowship and by an NWO VENI grant.