THE 10th CAREER DAY NEUROSCIENCE 2025

Kayson Fakhar

Kayson studied clinical psychology in Iran, found both untolerable, and moved to Germany to continue his M.Sc. in neuroscience at the Uni Oldenburg. He jumped back and forth between cognitive and systems neuroscience by doing his M.Sc. research project on optogenetics in rats and his thesis on fMRI human brain imaging. He then moved to Hamburg to continue his academic journey as a PhD student in computational neuroscience, focusing on causal inference in artificial neural networks and large-scale computational models of brain dynamics. He's currently a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge, where he studies how information flows in brain networks and how it all gives rise to cognition and cognitive disorders.