Dr Guifen Chen

Senior Lecturer in Neurobiology

Email: guifen.chen@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7882 3205
Room Number: 3.13, Fogg Building
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=lhe0t_4AAAAJ
Twitter: @GuifenChen

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Dr Guifen Chen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at QMUL. Her PhD is in Neuroscience and her research career spans universities in Asia, North America and Europe, including the lab of Nobel Laureate Prof. John O'Keefe.

Dr Chen’s research group at QMUL focuses on the neuronal basis of spatial cognition and memory in mice, making use of state-of-the-art virtual reality techniques and in vivo electrophysiological recording (tetrode and Neuropixels probe recordings). The research is primarily funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5459-660X

Twitter: @GuifenChen

Undergraduate Teaching

Fundamentals of Neurobiology (SNU209)

Research

Research Interests:

See Guifen Chen’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Examples of research funding:

BBSRC

Royal Society

Supervision

Postdoc:

Dr Jean-Yves Montenay

PhD students:

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Please get in touch for various opportunities below:

For post-doctoral positions

For PhD positions

LIDo studentships

CSC-funded PhD opportunities

For 2024: contact Guifen Chen directly for details. We are looking for candidates from the fields of neurosciences, life sciences, math, physics, engineering and computer sciences.

Here are the links for the applications:

Experience-dependent consolidation of spatial coding

Role of Adult-born Oligodendrocytes in Spatial Coding

We currently have CSC students from both engineering and life sciences backgrounds, who will support your applications to CSC.