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Professor Ole Jensen has been appointed Chair of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, working across both the Department of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology.

Professor Old Jensen

Professor Jensen is a world-leading expert in applying magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study the human brain. He joins Oxford from the University of Birmingham where he is Professor in Translational Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Centre for Human Brain Health. 


Professor Jensen started his career with an MSc in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark, followed by a PhD in Neuroscience, specialising in computational modelling of oscillatory networks, at Brandeis University in the US. He then went onto apply the use of MEG to study the brain at the Helsinki University of Technology and Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, before joining Birmingham in 2016.

 

Professor Jensen, who starts October 1st, says:

 I am delighted to be joining Oxford in this exciting and wide-ranging role. I look forward to working with teams in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology to accelerate research in cognitive neuroscience and further our understanding of the human brain and behaviour.

Read the full story on the Department of Psychiatry website.