Megan R. Carey is a Professor of Neuroscience in the Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and a Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Oxford. Her lab combines quantitative behavioral analysis, genetics, and physiology to understand how the brain controls learned and coordinated movements.

Dr. Carey received her PhD in 2005 from the University of California, San Francisco, where her thesis was awarded UCSF’s Krevans Distinguished Dissertation Award. After a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Carey started her independent laboratory in the Neuroscience Program at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2010.

Dr. Carey serves on the Board of Reviewing Editors for the journal eLife. She has Chaired the Gordon Research Conference on the Cerebellum and the Cosyne Conference for Computational and Systems Neuroscience. She served on the Board of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement and as Chair of the Motor Systems Theme for the Society of Neuroscience. Dr. Carey has taken on broader leadership roles in the scientific community as a former Chair of the FENS Kavli Network of Excellence and the ALBA Network for Equity and Diversity in Brain Sciences. From 2015-2019 she was a high-level policy advisor to the European Commissioner for Research & Innovation. Work in Dr. Carey’s lab has been continuously funded by European Research Council Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grants, alongside funding from other public and private sources such as the Portuguese FCT, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Simons Foundation.