Physiologist studying cognitive functions
Biography
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 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 Postdoctoral 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.
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.
Publications
Teaching and Supervisions
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 II PDN module N6 - Higher Order Function and Dysfunction
Part II PDN project
Part II SBS Dissertation
Other Professional Activities
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/
