Keita TAMURA

  • Associate Professor
  • Group Leader
  • MRC New Investigator
Keita TAMURA

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Physiologist studying cognitive functions

Physiologist - Keita Tamura (田村 啓太) undertook his doctoral studies as a JSPS Research Fellow and received his PhD in 2014 from The University of Tokyo for his pioneering work on optical approaches to cognitive neuroscience. He subsequently investigated cell-class-specific processing in sensorimotor circuits at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow of the European Union. In 2022, he established his research group on the circuit physiology of cognition in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. In 2025, he received the MRC New Investigator Award and was appointed Associate Professor. His research focuses on dissecting complex cognitive processes into fundamental neuronal circuits through the development and application of advanced technologies.

PDN Postdoc Adviser: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/postdocs/pdn-postdoc-advisors

Postdoc Academy Mentor: https://www.postdocacademy.cam.ac.uk/

Visiting Associate Professor (invited), International Research Centre for Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan: https://ircms.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/

Research

How can we recognise the rules governing the world and apply them to achieve our behavioural goal? We are aiming to understand such complex cognitive functions a the level of simple neuronal circuits by conitnuing efforts to develop the most sophisticated technologies.

Teaching and supervision

Part IB Neurobiology & Human or Animal Behaviour  -  Practical - Human electrophysiology

Part IB Neurobiology & Human Behaviour  -  Neuroanatomy Class

Part IB Neurobiology & Human or Animal Behaviour  -  Hearing

Part IB Neurobiology  -  Hearing

Part IB Neurobiology  -  Practical - Human electrophysiology

Part II PDN module N6  -  Higher Order Function and Dysfunction

Part II PDN project

Part II SBS Dissertation