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Abhi is happy to discuss potential Ph.D. and Postdoc opportunities as well as sponsoring externally-funded fellowships. Please email Abhi at abhishek.banerjee@pharm.ox.ac.uk for an informal inquiry.
Dr Abhishek Banerjee
Abhi is the head of Adaptive Decisions Lab. Abhi did his D.Phil. at the University of Oxford as a Felix Scholar. He was a Simons Fellow at MIT and a Teaching Fellow in Neurobiology at Harvard University. He was then a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Fellow and NARSAD Young Investigator at the University of Zürich.
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Jasper Teutsch
Jasper is a PhD student in the lab. He is studying flexible learning in long-range cortico-cortical circuits. He has an M.Sc. in Translational Neuroscience from Universitat Ulm, Germany.
Anastasia Dimitriou
Anastasia is a PhD student in the lab. She is studying thalamocortical plasticity in PFC. She was an MRes in Neuroscience student at Newcastle University, UK.
Abhishek Banerjee
Abhi is the PI of Adaptive Decisions Lab. Abhi did his D.Phil. at University of Oxford as a Felix Scholar. He was a Simons Fellow at MIT and a Teaching Fellow in Neurobiology at Harvard University. He was then a Marie Curie Fellow and NARSAD Young Investigator at University of Zürich.
Jasper Teutsch
Jasper is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab. He submitted his PhD thesis on studying flexible learning in long-range cortico-cortical circuits. He has an M.Sc. in Translational Neuroscience from Universität Ulm, Germany.
Rohan Rao
Rohan is a prestigious Reece Foundation PhD student in the lab. He is studying decision-making in humans using cognitive tasks and EEG recordings. He was a Master's student in Physics at Oxford University, UK.
Klara Hatinova
Klara is a PhD student studying the neurobiology of Dopamine and value learning, with an interest in neuropsychiatric conditions. She did her MSc in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and consequently worked as a research assistant in the Department of Experimental Psychology.
Abel Rassat
Abel is currently completing his Master's in the Neural Systems and Computation programme offered by the Institute of Neuroinformatics which is based jointly at ETH Zürich and the
University of Zürich. Since December 2024, he has been conducting his master's thesis in the Adaptive Decisions Lab.
Dilay Ercelik
Dilay was awarded the Clarendon Scholarship to start her DPhil in the lab in Michaelmas 2025. She previously was a research rotation student in the lab (Hilary 2025) on the Neuroscience course. She is interested in the computational mechanisms underlying learning supporting flexible behaviour, currently working on RNN modelling of mice reversal learning.
Agata Stramek
Agata is a research professional at Oxford’s Biomedical Services and our Laboratory Manager. She has project management experience from the Open University, where she supported various research projects, and is currently pursuing a BSc in Health Sciences. She is committed to maintaining high standards of animal welfare and promoting ethical research practices while facilitating innovative neuroscience research
Evie Ward
Evie has completed the first 2 years of a Neuroscience BSc at Cardiff university and is currently undertaking a placement year in the Adaptive Decisions lab. She is looking forward to taking part in research related to decision making in both humans and animals and is interested in how this is affected by neurological disorders.
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Ioanna Pandi
Ioanna joins our lab as an Academic Visitor, supported by a prestigious IBRO Scholarship. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Poirazi Lab (IMBB-FORTH) in Crete, Greece. Her research focuses on how spine and dendritic processing in cortical brain areas shape flexible behavior in mice.
Mengke Yang
Mengke is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab, focusing on multiphoton imaging techniques in neuroscience since 2015. His research centres on characterizing neuronal network dynamics associated with memory formation and Alzheimer's disease using an ultra-wide-field two-photon microscope. Now, he is implementing multi-region two-photon imaging to explore the mechanism underlying the decision-making process.
Gabriel Bontemps
​Gabriel Bontemps is a doctoral candidate in Economics, jointly affiliated with the GREDEG-CNRS (Université Côte d’Azur) and the Adaptive Decision Lab (Oxford), supported by the interdisciplinary DS4H scholarship. His research centres on empirically validating the micro-foundations of economic models through experimental methods, integrating behavioural economics, cognitive neuroscience, and Agent-Based Models formalism.
Lea Capek
Maria Shernyakova
Lea is a visiting researcher student working on her bachelor thesis in computational neuroscience. She is studying interdisciplinary sciences at ETH Zurich with a focus on neuroscience and physics.
Maria is an IB Diploma student interested in how changes in brain circuits contribute to neuropsychiatric disorders. Having developed several theoretical research proposals, she is now gaining practical experience in the lab.
Anton Dogadov
Anton is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab. He recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, where he developed a real-time mesoscale optical brain-machine interface in a mouse model. He explores how brain-machine interfaces can be used to probe cortical plasticity, sensorimotor learning, and adaptive decision-making.
Escapees!
Debora Alvim
Debora was a 4th year Medical student in the lab. She explored in the lab human sensory processing by designing new cognitive tasks together with EEG and fMRI recordings.
Rachel Thomson
Rachel was an MRes Neuroscience student in the lab. She will be studying flexible learning brain circuitry using mice, and previously studied Biology with Industrial Experience at Manchester University.
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Now: PhD student at Southampton University.
Zhi Hao
Zhi Hao was a MSc student in the lab. He is exploring possible neural mechanisms underlying flexible decision-making using tensor decomposition and machine learning techniques. He has a BSc in neuroscience from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.
Marco Bocchio
Marco was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab. Marco did his D.Phil. and his first postdoc at University of Oxford. He was then an FRM and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at INMED, Aix-Marseille University in Rosa Cossart's lab.
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Now: Lecturer at Durham University, UK
David Haydock
David was a Master's student in Computational Neuroscience in the lab. He analysed neuronal response dynamics using tensor component analysis. He has a B.Eng. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
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Now: PhD student at University of Hertfordshire, UK
Elena Stebbings
Elena was an undergraduate studying Psychology and Biology. She is curious about how deep learning can be applied to ameliorate neuropsychiatric diseases and is excited to be doing her dissertation in the lab.
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Now: MRes student at University of Oxford (Burnett Lab)
Peng Shao
Peng was an M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering student in the lab. He explored the complex cognition of rodents in response to tactile sensory processing through building Arduino and python-based behavioural interfaces and has a B.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering.
Giuseppe Parente
Giuseppe did his B.Sc. in Physics from Universita di Tor Vergata. He worked with Abhi in Zurich and implemented sophisticated analytical tools to study learning dynamics.
Matteo Cartiglia
Matteo was a Master's student studying Biomedical Engineering at ETH-Zurich. He worked with Abhi to build a virtual-reality set-up to study hippocampal circuit dynamics.
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Ph.D. student with Giacomo Indiveri, ETH-Zurich. Now in IMEC R&D, Leuven.
Karolina Ignatiadis
Karolina was a Master’s student studying computational neuroscience at ETH-Zurich. She worked with Abhi modelling response dynamics of Ca2+ signals in 2P-imaging.
Now: Ph.D. student at Austrian Academy of Sciences Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna
Chiara Rickenbach
Chiara was a Master's student in Neurobiology at ETH-Zurich. She ​worked with Abhi to investigate hippocampal circuits in contextual reward processing.
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Now: PhD Student at University of Zurich, Immunology of Neurodegeneration
Laura Rihova
​Laura was a BBSRC D.Phil rotation student in the lab. She is studying behaviourally relevant feedback microcircuits in the brain. She did her MSci in Neuroscience at University College London.
