Christiaan Levelt new director of Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

Christiaan Levelt Professor and neuroscientist Christiaan Levelt will become the new director of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), starting 1 January 2024. Christiaan Levelt is currently a group leader at the institute, where he investigates how the brain learns and processes information. Christiaan Levelt succeeds Pieter Roelfsema , who has led the institute since 2007 and will remain associated with it as a group leader. Levelt's group investigates the brain processes involved in learning and information processing. His research focuses on the regions of the brain responsible for sight, i.e. the visual system. He is interested in how brain circuits adapt in response to the information they receive, and how these processes differ between the developing and adult brain. A question directly related to this is how these learning processes contribute to the conscious perception of important information.