Dr. Kia Nobre - a podcast by Nancy Padilla

When Kia Nobre left her family home in Brazil to go to university in Massachusetts, she could never have known where her passion for science would eventually take her. After falling in love with neuroscience in undergrad at Williams College, Kia ended up pursuing a PhD at Yale where she studied human language processing, long term potentiation in animal models, and even was able to work with some of the first fMRI data ever collected. In her two postdocs, she continued to use fMRI to study global theories of cognition and attention. Kia eventually came to the UK as a lecturer at Oxford, where she was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship then an Independent Research Fellowship in Psychology. She continues to work in human brain imaging at Oxford, collaborating with the University College London to found their Functional Imaging Laboratory. She is currently the chair of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, the director of the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, and the head of the Department of Experimental Psychology. Kia’s impact on cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging has been monumental and she continues to shape international discourse on the role of science in society, education, and policy. 

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