About

Zoe Kourtzi is Professor of Experimental Psychology and Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Zoe received her PhD from Rutgers University and was postdoctoral fellow at MIT and Harvard University. She moved to the University of Cambridge in 2013 and is the Angharad Dodds John Fellow at Downing College. She is a Royal Society Industry Fellow, Fellow and Cambridge University Lead at the Alan Turing Institute, and the Science Lead for Alzheimer’s Research UK Initiative on Early Detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases (EDoN).

Research

Zoe’s research focuses on:

• Neural processes underlying complex cognitive functions and behaviour
  
• Brain plasticity and cognitive development across the lifespan
  
• Multimodal brain imaging (MRI, EEG, MEG) combined with behavioural paradigms and advanced mathematical algorithms
  
• Applications in ageing, neurological disorders, and translational neuroscience