Speaker
Tochukwu Nweze
Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and, PhD student in MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.
Biography
Tochukwu is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and currently a first year PhD student in MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.
He obtained his B.SC in psychology from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. He subsequently went to Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London where he received his M.SC in Neuroimaging. He is currently doing his PhD with the Lifespan Cognitive Dynamics lab in MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
Tochukwu’s current research uses psychometric techniques to examine how psycho-socioeconomic adversities in early life affect brain and cognitive development. He utilises longitudinal datasets to examine the contemporary and long-term consequences of adversity as well as cognitive adaptation in adverse-exposed individuals.