Rate My Professor Tamar Makin

Professor Tamar Makin is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, where she leads the Plasticity Lab. Her research focuses on brain plasticity, particularly how the brain represents the body and adapts following changes such as disability, injury, or technological augmentation, with a primary emphasis on hand function and motor control. She combines approaches from neuroscience, psychology, rehabilitation, and bioengineering to explore these topics.

Makin graduated from the Brain and Behavioural Sciences programme at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2009 and completed her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford. She held positions at the University of Oxford before joining the faculty at University College London in 2016, where she was appointed Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in 2019. In 2022, she moved to the University of Cambridge as a Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Her work has examined topics including the representation of prosthetic limbs in the brain and the effects of amputation on brain structure and function. Makin has received funding including a European Research Council Starting Grant.