Petra Fischer successfully defends her D.Phil. thesis

Petra Fischer successfully defends her D.Phil. thesis

After the viva: (from left to right) a proud supervisor, a satisfied External Examiner, the happy student, a second satisfied Examiner, and another proud supervisor.

Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student Petra Fischer for successfully defending her doctoral thesis, entitled "Neuronal dynamics of flexible motor control in the human subthalamic nucleus and cortex", in her viva voce examination on 6th November 2017.

Petra’s examiners were Dr Robert Schmidt (Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield) and Associate Professor Mark Stokes (Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford).

Petra was supervised by Professor Peter Brown and Dr Huiling Tan.