Dr Moataz Assem

Dr. Assem is a Research Associate at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow in Neuroscience at Murray Edwards college. He is the recipient of the 11th Frith Prize from the Experimental Psychology Society for his PhD work at the same unit. His research investigates the brain basis of human intelligence. Specifically, he investigates how a core multiple-demand (MD) circuit in the human brain organises our thoughts and behaviour. His research stands out for its anatomical precision, employing state of the art brain imaging approaches (Human Connectome Project style fMRI, intracranial EEG and more recently concurrent TMS-fMRI). Dr Assem is multidisciplinary trained in medicine (Alexandria University, Egypt), biomedical engineering at (Bogazici University, Turkey and MIT, US), and cognitive neuroscience (Cambridge). He supervises students in the Psychology and Behavioural Sciences (PBS) tripos. In parallel, since 2015, he has been involved in coordinating both the Egyptian and International Brain Bee competitions, the neuroscience olympiads for high school students.