Professor Dénes Szűcs
- Deputy Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education
- Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
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Professor Dénes Szűcs is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology and a Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge.
Shortly after receiving his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Eötvös Loránd University, Dénes joined the University of Cambridge as a lecturer. It was also at Eötvös Loránd University that he was awarded his MA in Experimental Psychology (5-year MA degree).
Dénes has previously been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at both Stanford University and University of Padua.
In 2013 Dénes was the recipient of the Scholar Award in Understanding Human Cognition (awarded for excellence of research into both psychology and cognitive neuroscience) from the James S. McDonnell Foundation and a United Nations Senior Fellowship in the Science of Learning, which he held at UNESCO in Geneva.
Dénes has been the editor of numerous journals including Royal Society Open Science, Trends in Neuroscience and Education, and Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
Research
His research is primarily concerned with mathematical understanding and development, including mathematics anxiety (including gender differences), dyscalculia, and gifted mathematics. Dénes is also very interested in modern research methodology and in the meta-analysis of the published neuroscience and psychology literature.
Dénes has been the supervisor for a number of different PhD and MPhil projects, and currently has one MPhil student, Josefina Weinerova, as well as a PhD student, Carolina Álvarez.
Previous Students
- Chiara Avancini (PhD)
- Donna Bryce (PhD)
- Emma Carey (PhD)
- Jack Clearman (PhD)
- Amy Devine (PhD)
- Florence Gabriel (PhD)
- Yi-Fang (Yvonne) Hsu (PhD)
- Clare Killikelly (PhD)
- Timothy Myers (PhD)
- Swiya Nath (PhD)
- Tianrui Shen (PhD)
- Laura Vuillier (PhD)
- Sonia White (PhD)
- Becky Wong (MPhil)
- Jan Zirk-Sadowsk (PhD)