Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Oxford

Tara completed her medical training and PhD in Iran, at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, under the supervision of Professor Hossein Esteky. During her PhD, she investigated asymmetries in cognitive tasks, particularly in visual-field processing. She later extended this work to study asymmetries across behaviour, eye movements, subcortical volumes, and oscillatory brain activity.

Tara joined Professor Ole Jensen’s Neuronal Oscillations Group in 2020, where she started working as a Research Assistant in the COGITATE consortium. Within COGITATE, she contributed to participant recruitment, pre-screening sessions, and MEG/EEG data collection. This experience strengthened her interest in using neuroimaging methods to understand the neural mechanisms underlying cognition and conscious perception.

Tara is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, supervised by Professor Ole Jensen. Her research focuses on linking subcortical structures to behaviour, eye movements, and brain activity by examining asymmetries across these domains. In her previous work, she showed that the size of subcortical structures can predict oscillatory activity during cognitive tasks and at rest. She is also involved in developing analysis pipelines for SQUID-MEG and OPM-MEG as part of the FLUX pipeline project. Her long-term goal is to use sensitive neuroimaging methods, including EEG and MEG, to detect variations in subcortical structure that may contribute to the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.