Helen Barron

Systems and cognitive neuroscience session | The title of the talk is not defined yet.

Helen Barron is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she leads a research group jointly based at the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit and the Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging.

She studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and earned her PhD from University College London, investigating the neural mechanisms of memory and decision-making using MRI under the supervision of Tim Behrens and Ray Dolan. Following her PhD, she joined the MRC BNDU as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, where she developed cross-species approaches to study inferential reasoning.

Her current research explores how hippocampal cells and circuits support learning, memory, and flexible behavior in both health and disease. Combining electrophysiology, calcium imaging, optogenetics, MRI, and behavioral analyses, her work seeks to reveal how neuronal computations give rise to cognition and contribute to psychiatric disorders.