Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student Oliver Härmson for successfully defending his doctoral thesis, entitled “Elucidating the neural correlates of cost-benefit decisions in a rat cortico-basal ganglia network”, in his viva voce examination on 5th January 2023.

Oliver’s viva examiners were Professor Sebastien Bouret (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière, Paris) and Professor Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford).

Oliver was supervised by Professor Andrew Sharott (MRC BNDU) and Professor Mark Walton (Experimental Psychology).