Tamar Makin

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Leader of the Plasticity Lab · University of Cambridge · company speakers →

Prof. Tamar Makin is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and the leader of the Plasticity Lab. She aims to understand how we can enhance motor functionality in able and disabled individuals at all ages. She is particularly interested in filling in the translational gap between the promise of technological breakthroughs and its societal impact in the realm of motor augmentation. Tamar was awarded several career development fellowships to establish her research programme on brain plasticity at the University of Oxford, first as Research Fellow (2009) and later as a Principle Investigator (2014). She joined the faculty of UCL in 2016 where she became a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience (2019), and moved to Cambridge in 2022 to continue her work. She has been supported by the European Research Council (Starting and Consolidator Grants; deferred to UKRI), the Wellcome Trust (Henry Dale and Senior Research Fellow), the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, in addition to the UK Medical Research Council.

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