Jesus College Record 2022

Nicole Eichert
Junior Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology
This summer I started a Sir Henry Wellcome
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Wellcome
Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN).
I am seeking to understand how our brains
evolved to support uniquely human
cognition. I combine magnetic resonance
imaging and histology to investigate how
brain structure and function relate to each
other, and how the anatomical basis differs across the primate
lineage. My focus is the temporal lobe, a part of the brain that
changed significantly during evolution and plays a key role in
cognition. My research programme builds on my PhD project,
which I conducted in Oxford as part of the Wellcome Trust
Programme in Neuroscience, and benefits from close
collaboration with the Montreal Neurological Institute.
Alexandra Gajda
John Walsh Fellow in History
I have produced and published several
articles on disparate topics: on the
relationship of Church, state and subjects in
the Tudor realms, Oxford University and the
Crown in the age of Elizabeth I, the creation
of the legal framework for witch-hunting in
early modern England, the influence of
trading companies on diplomacy in the early
seventeenth century, and the origins of the political ‘apology’ in
public life. I’m now working on a study of the evolution of the
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