Tamar Makin

MRC Cognition and Brain Unit, University of Cambridge

Tamar Makin is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge University and the leader of the Plasticity Lab www.plasticity-lab.com. Her main interest is in understanding how our body representation changes in the brain (brain plasticity). Her primary model for this work is studying hand function and dysfunction, with a focus on how we could use technology to increase hand functionality in able and disabled individuals at all ages. Tamar was awarded several career development fellowships to establish her research programme on brain plasticity at the University of Oxford, first as Research Fellow (2009) and later as a Principle Investigator (2014). She joined the faculty of UCL in 2016 where she became a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience (2019), and moved to Cambridge in 2022 to continue her work. She has been supported by the European Research Council (Starting and Consolidator Grants; deferred to UKRI), the Wellcome Trust (Henry Dale and Senior Research Fellow), the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, in addition to the UK Medical Research Council.