Principle Investigator

Takamitsu Watanabe MD PhD

Principle Investigator, Associate Professor, 

UTokyo IRCN (Excellent Young Researcher Program), Japan.

Email: takamitsu-watanabe atmark g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp | takamitsu.watanabe atmark ircn.jp 

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After 5-year post-doc in the lab of Prof Geraint Rees in UCL ICN and 2-year deputy team-leader work in RIKEN CBS (Miyashita Lab), I came back as a PI to the building where I started my first human fMRI project. As a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, I have investigated how functionally and structurally different human brain areas coordinate with each other, dynamically tune their collective outputs, and realise diverse conscious/unconscious experiences in typical/atypical individuals.

Post-doc

Shota A Murai PhD

Post-doctoral researcher.

I’m broadly interested in how the brain is involved in an individual’s unique sensory and cognitive processes. Over the next few years, I’m hoping to advance the neurobiological basis in the diverse processes. Before coming to the Watanabe Lab, I completed my PhD at Doshisha Univerisity using functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioral measures to study how the auditory system achieves speech comprehension under acoustically challenging conditions.

Post-doc

Shiho Tanaka PhD

Post-doctoral researcher.

Lab assistant

Ms Horikoshi

After graduating the master course, I have engaged in the research project focusing on education related to research for the resettlement of refugees as a research assistant at the university. Currently, I am particularly interested in human cognitive functions and the relationship between learning and apathy. Furthermore, I aspire to contribute to understanding the causes of the disease and developing treatments for diseases classified as hard-to-treat conditions.

Intern

Mr Jonah Dahl from International Christian University (ICU), Japan. 

Mr Daichi Watanabe from UC Berkeley, US.