Yuria Shimizu
E-mail: yuriashimizu1120[atmark]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
About
I'm a PhD Student at Oizumi Lab, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan. I'm also associated with the Co-Embodiment Self Lab (CELab) at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where I was a visiting fellow in fall 2024.
My work sits at the intersection of computational neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and psychiatry. With a medical degree (MD) alongside training in deep learning and neuroimaging, I study how the brain gives rise to subjective experience — and above all to the self: its unity in the moment and its continuity over time. I want to understand both the processes that generate it and the representations they produce — and, just as much, how these come apart in psychiatric disorders.
I'm also driven to put the insights and tools of neuroscience and psychiatry to work in society — especially personalized, transdiagnostic mental health care built on the computational findings. Since mental health is a spectrum rather than a hard line between the well and the unwell, this reaches more broadly to everyone, helping anyone understand how their own mind is put together.
A detailed CV is available here: My CV
Education
MSc, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan (2024)
MBBS, Faculty of Medicine, Nara Medical University, Japan (2022)
Certificate
Medical license in Japan (2022)
Fellowship
World-leading INnovative Graduate Study Program of Advanced Basic Science Course(WINGS-ABC) (2022 - Present)