Dr Katja Kornysheva PhD FHEA

PhD University of Münster & Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Germany.

M.A. University of Cologne & Max Planck Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany.

Dr Katja Kornysheva completed her PhD in Psychology on the neural basis of auditory rhythm perception and motor synchronisation at the MPI for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the MPI for Neurological Research with Prof. Ricarda Schubotz (University of Muenster, Germany). She became a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UCL) and was subsequently awarded the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2012 to conduct research on the encoding of skilled motor timing in humans and rodent models at UCL and the Neuroscience Department at the Erasmus Medical Centre, NL, working with Prof. Joern Diedrichsen, Prof. Neil Burgess and Prof. Chris De Zeeuw.

In 2017, Katja took up a post as Lecturer at Bangor University where she started her lab, served as Co-Director of the Bangor Imaging Unit and taught Neuroimaging and Neuroscience modules at the School of Psychology. Dr Kornysheva was awarded the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award in 2021 to study the neural basis of sequence planning in motor coordination disorders/dyspraxia. She joined the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH) & the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham in December 2021 and became a Co-Director of the CHBH in 2022. Dr Kornysheva received the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in 2024 to study skilled action planning across the brain and develop non-invasive neurotechological tools to improve action planning and movement rehabilitation.

MSc and PhD project supervisor; Lecturer in Human Neuroimaging and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience.

Dr. Kornysheva is keen to hear from interested potential PhD students to discuss funding possibilities. Please send a brief email with CV and reason for interest in the Skilled Action and Memory lab.

motor planning and execution; timing; sequencing; memory; fMRI; MEG; OPM; EEG; EMG; TMS; tTIS; FUS; multivariate pattern analysis; brain-computer-interfaces; developmental coordination disorder (DCD)/dyspraxia; task-specific dystonia; Parkinson’s Disease; stroke.

Consulting Editor, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Board of Directors, Society for the Neural Control of Movement

Editor, Journal of Motor Behaviour