PEOPLE

Dr Andrea Pisauro

Andrea is a Postdoctoral Researcher. He completed a PhD at UCL in the laboratory of Matteo Carandini. He then moved to Glasgow to work on simultaneous EEG-fMRI in the laboratory of Marios Philiastides. He is interested in the neural basis and the computational principles underlying human decision making. His current work involves understanding the role of social context in shaping behavior and how it is encoded by the brain to inform valuation and decision making.

DR. MATTHEW APPS

Principal Investigator

Matt is the Principal Investigator of the lab. Having completed a PhD and postdoc at Royal Holloway, University of London, he moved to Oxford first as a postdoc, then becoming a BBSRC Future Leader Fellow. He is now a BBSRC David Phillips Fellow and Research Lecturer in the Department of Experimental and the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN) at the University of Oxford.

TANJA MÜLLER

DPhil Student

Tanja is a Ph.D. Student at the Department of Experimental Psychology and New College, University of Oxford, supervised by Dr. Matt Apps and Prof. Masud Husain. She received a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and an M.Sc. in Neuro-Cognitive Psychology from LMU Munich. Her present research is focused on the cognitive, neurobiological and neuroanatomical basis of fatigue and its impact on people's motivation. 

Dr Anthony Gabay

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

Anthony is a Postdoctoral  Fellow funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. He completed a PhD and post-doc at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, where he used neuropharmacological techniques to investigate how the brain processes information related to social interactions, such as trust and cooperation. 

Cody Kommers

PhD student

Cody is a PhD student in Experimental Psychology at Oxford, where he is supervised by Matthew Apps and Geoff Bird. Before coming to Oxford, Cody studied cognitive science at UCLA and Harvard. Most of the questions he is interested in revolve around how people think about other people, especially when those other people are different from oneself. 

Katie O'Nell

MRes student

Katie O'Nell is an MRes student in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, supervised by Dr. Matt Apps and Prof. Nick Yeung. She received a B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she studied facial identity and emotion recognition. Her current research focuses on how effort expended in understanding a social landscape affects social decision-making. 

Arno Gekiere

MSc student

Arno is a MSc student at the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Pyschology, Universiteit Gent, Belgium.

As part of his masters course he is currently doing a research internship at the department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, supervised by Dr. Matt Apps and PhD student Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta. He has received a BSc in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology as well as a B in ICT. Currently, his research at the lab is focused on comparing the underlying processes of decision making for the self and others.

Busra Yelbuz

MSc Student

Busra is a MSc in Psychological Research student at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, supervised by Dr. Matt Apps and PhD student Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta. She received a BSc in Psychology from the University of Economics, Turkey, where her thesis evaluated the relationship between first impressions and theory of mind. Currently, her research is focused on comparing the underlying processes of decision making for the self and others, within an ecological framework.

MARIN TAMM

Former Research Assistant

LORE VLEUGELS

former MSc Student

Now doing a PhD with Dr. Rob Hardwick UC Louvain, Brussels