People

Lab PI

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  • Chris Summerfield

  • Chris is the lab PI. He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, and a Research Director at UK AI Security Institute.

Postdocs and Fellows

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  • Mira Dumbalska

  • Mira completed her PhD in Oxford and is now a postdoc funded by Schmidt Futures.

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  • Jessica Thompson

  • Jess completed her PhD with Marc Schonwiesner at BRAMS and Yoshua Bengio at MILA. She is now funded by NSERC.

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  • Qingtian Mi

  • Qingtian completed his PhD with Lusha Zhu, and is now a Peking University Postdoctoral Exchange Fellow.

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  • Franziska Braendle

  • Franziska completed her PhD with Eric Schulz in Tuebingen.

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  • Sebastian Bruijns

  • completed his PhD in Tuebingen with Peter Dayan

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  • Nir Moneta

  • completed his PhD in Berlin with Nico Schuck

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  • Zilu Liang

  • completed her PhD with Chris and Miriam Klein-Flugge here in Oxford

PhD Students and Research Assistants

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  • Carla Zoe Cremer

  • Zoe is co-supervised by Matan Mazor and is funded by the FHI.

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  • Jirko Rubruck

  • Jirko is funded by the ESRC and co-supervised by Andrew Saxe.

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  • Denis Lan

  • Denis is co-supervised by Laurence Hunt.

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  • Kai Sandbrink

  • Kai is co-supervised by Simon Stringer.

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  • Mia Whitefield

  • Mia is on the 4-year Biosciences DTP and is co-supervised by Helen Barron.

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  • Brian Christian

  • Brian is co-supervised by Jakob Foerster.

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  • Alice Zhang

  • Alice is a 2nd year PhD student. She was previously a lab manager in Cate Hartley’s lab at NYU

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  • Marcus Montague-Mfuni

  • Marcus ia first year PhD student who joins us after Masters training in both Neuroscience and Public Policy

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  • Johannes Schubert

  • Johannes is a predoc RA who was previously in Eric Schulz’s lab

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  • Mohammed Amara

  • Mo is a final year Experimental Psychology MSci student who is working with us for his final year project

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  • Elouise Kerby-Dickinson

  • Elouise is a final year Experimental Psychology MSci student who is working with us for her final year project

Alumni (PhD Students / RAs)

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  • Elizabeth Michael

  • Lizzie defended her PhD in 2015. She is now a Henry Wellcome fellow in Cambridge at Henry Wellcome.

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  • Dan Bang

  • Dan defended his PhD in 2015. He is now a Lundbeck Foundation Fellow at Aarhus University.

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  • Jan Balaguer

  • Jan defended his PhD in 2018. He is now a research engineer with DeepMind.

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  • Hannah Tickle

  • Hannah defended her PhD in 2018. She is now a data scientist at Trainline London.

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  • Santiago Herce-Castanon

  • Santiago defended his PhD in 2018. He is now a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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  • Hildward Vandormael

  • Hil defended his PhD in 2017. He is now working as a data scientist for the University of Oxford.

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  • Vickie Li

  • Vickie defended her PhD in 2019. She is now working as a data scientist for Faculty AI.

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  • Fabrice Luyckx

  • Fabrice is now working as a data scientist for Massive Media in Ghent.

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  • Fabian Otto

  • Fabian was an RA in the lab in 2019-20 after graduating from Oxford. He is now a graduate student at ETH Zurich.

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  • Ron Dekker

  • Ron defended in 2021. He is now a data scientist at EY SaT Lab in Tokyo.

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  • Timo Flesch

  • Timo was in the lab for 8 years! He now works for The UK AI Safety Institute.

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  • Leonie Glitz

  • Leonie was in the lab for 6 years and defended in 2024. She is now working as a postdoctoral researcher with Helen Barron.

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  • Lukas Braun

  • Lukas was co-supervised by Andrew Saxe. He is now a postdoc with Laura Driscoll at the Allen Institute

Alumni (Postdocs)

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  • Vincent de Gardelle

  • Vincent is now a tenured CNRS researcher at the Sorbonne, Paris.

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  • Valentin Wyart

  • Valentin is now a tenured INSERM researcher at the ENS, Paris.

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  • Alejo Nevado-Holgado

  • Alejo is now a PI in the psychiatry department in Oxford.

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  • Annabelle Blangero

  • Annabelle is now a data scientist for OCTO technology (Paris).

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  • Konstantinos Tsetsos

  • Kos is now a PI at the University of Bristol.

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  • Bernhard Spitzer

  • Bernie is now a PI at the Centre for Adaptive Rationality (Berlin).

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  • Andreas Jarvstad

  • Andreas is now a faculty member in the department of psychology at City University.

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  • Hamed Nili

  • Hamed is now a postdoctoral researcher at UKE Hamburg.

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  • Andrew Saxe

  • Andrew is now a PI at UCL’s Gatsby Unit on a Henry Dale Fellowship.

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  • Yinan Cao

  • Yinan is now a postdoc with Konstantinos Tsetsos in Hamburg.

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  • Hannah Sheahan

  • Hannah is now a research engineer at OpenAI.

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  • Neil Garrett

  • Neil is now an associate professor at UEA.

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  • Stephanie Nelli

  • Steph is now a tenure-track professor in Cognitive Science at Occidental College in LA.

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  • Paula Parpart

  • Paula is now teaching methods in data science.

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  • Keno Juechems

  • Keno is now a research scientist at Limbic AI.

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  • Paul Muhle-Karbe

  • Paul is now an associate professor at Birmingham University.

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  • Aniruddh Galgali

  • Aniruddh is now a postdoc with Maneesh Sahani at UCL’s Gatsby Unit.

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  • Sophie Arana

  • Sophie is now a Research Manager at the Alan Turing Institute.

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  • Jacques Pesnot-Lerousseau

  • Jacques is now a postdoctoral fellow at the ILCB in Marseille

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  • Alex Grogan

  • Alex was a software engineer in the lab

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  • Ellie Holton

  • Ellie is now a postdoc with Yael Niv