Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student Maaike van Swieten for successfully defending her doctoral thesis, entitled “Physiological modulation of learning and decision-making”, in her viva voce examination on 18th November 2020.

Maaike’s viva examiners were Professor Michael Frank (Carney Center for Computational Brain Science, Brown University, USA) and Professor Chris Summerfield (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford). The viva took place remotely via digital conferencing.

Maaike was supervised by Professor Rafal Bogacz, Associate Professor Sanjay Manohar, and Professor Peter Magill.