Kenza Kadri

Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Tübingen

Kenza Kadri | Postdoctoral Researcher University of Tübingen

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Developmental Computational Psychiatry Lab led by Tobias Hauser at the University of Tübingen, and a guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

I completed my PhD in Computational neuroscience in the Fouragnan lab at the University of Plymouth, and previously worked in the Visual Neuroscience lab at Montreal University (Canada), where I modeled the neural network of cortico-pulvino-cortical interactions.

I hold bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Biology, and a master’s in big data, computational neuroscience and modeling.

My research combines computational modelling, neuroimaging and behavioural data to understand the mechanisms of impulsivity, decision-making and reward processing, and how they go awry in psychiatric conditions such as addiction and psychosis. I am particularly interested in transdiagnostic and developmental approaches that link computational markers of behaviour to their neural and clinical correlates, and in building open, theory-driven modelling tools for the computational psychiatry community. I currently use real-time fMRI to study how spontaneous fluctuations in brain activity shape decision-making, and study the neural mechanisms of information gathering.