Deng Pan (潘登)
Deng is a graduate student (DPhil) at the University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology, working with Prof. Matthew Rushworth. His research interests focus on understanding the neural and computational mechanisms underlying learning and decision-making, especially how we organize structure knowledge to afford flexibility in social contexts. Before that, Deng received his BS in psychological and cognitive sciences from Peking University (PKU) in China, where he worked with Dr. Jian Li and Dr. Lusha Zhu on social decision-making. He also worked as a research assistant at Dr. Oriel FeldmanHall lab at Brown Univeristy and Dr. Yin Wang lab and Bejing Normal University before graduate school. Outside of research, he enjoys reading novels, swimming, and mountain climbing. His name in Chinese means ‘climbing’.
Favorite words
“Nothing is to be feared, only to be understood.” by Marie Curie.