Aamir Sohail

I am an MRC Advanced Interdisciplinary Methods (AIM) DTP PhD student based at the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH), University of Birmingham.

My research interests involve using experimental tasks and computational modeling to understand social decision-making in humans and AI. I am also more broadly interested in the impact of AI on society, and towards how science is conducted.

I am especially passionate about facilitating inclusivity and diversity in academia, as well as promoting open and reproducible science.

Quick bio

I completed a BSc in Biomedical Science at Imperial College London, with my final-year project supervised by Anne Lingford-Hughes and Sam Turton, followed by an MSc in Brain Imaging at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Jan Derrfuss and Claudia Danielmeier. I then worked as research and administrative support at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) at the University of Reading under Anastasia Christakou. Since September 2023, I have been an MRC-funded PhD student at the Department of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, where I am supervised by Lei Zhang and Patricia Lockwood. During my PhD, I also visited the labs of Russ Poldrack and Robb Willer at Stanford University.

Outside of work I enjoy playing snooker (high break of 63), going on meandering walks, watching cricket and listening to music.

Click here to see some NIFTIs and GIFS of my brain (that’s a GIF of my white-matter nulled T1 above!).