People

Principal Investigator

Romy Frömer is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Birmingham. She completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Following a one-year postdoc with Professor Abdel Rahman at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, she worked with Amitai Shenhav at Brown University as a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently senior research associate. She joined University of Birmingham as an Assistant Professor in January 2023. 

Lab Manager

Anwesha Chakraborty joined us in August. After completing her MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from University of Nottingham, she worked as a research assistant in multiple MEG, eye-tracking and fMRI projects. Currently, Anwesha is interested in age-related decision neuroscience & exploring dynamic effort evaluation using neuroimaging methods.

PhD student

Ruby Schleyer-Westbrook is a first year PhD student in Psychology. She completed her BSc in Psychology from University of Birmingham. After a few years in the third sector, where she designed and managed bespoke oracy training workshops across the UK, Ruby is now returning to academia to pursue her doctoral studies. Her research interests lie in understanding  decision making processes.  

Post-doctoral Researcher

This could be you! We are recruiting a post-doc to start in November 2024 and work on the computational and neural bases of flexible decision-making. You find the ad here. The application deadline is September 19. There could be other ways to join the lab, too, if you are interested in joining the lab, please email Romy.

PhD Student

This could be you! We are actively recruiting PhD students. If you are interested in joining the lab, please email Romy.

Lab Alumni

Louise Robson (SURE student)

Daniil Luzyanin - former lab manager, is now persueing a PhD at University of Reading