Professor Jennifer Cook
Jennifer is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience with a PhD in Neuroscience from UCL and an undergraduate degree in Psychology. She has wide-ranging research expertise spanning autism, Parkinson’s, dopamine, motor control, social cognition, kinematics, emotion processing, and even honey bee behaviour. Her favourite projects combine insights from different domains including mathematics, computational neuroscience, psychology and movement studies. She has won various awards for her research including the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize, British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience Early career Prize and 2013 Frith Prize. She is a big tea drinker, loves a dance, sings folk music and plays the ukulele badly.