About my current job
Soon after finishing my DPhil in EP, I joined the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where I started my lab that conducts research on decision neuroscience. I focus on investigating the neural mechanisms of decision-making when people are offered many options to choose from, which is an extended work of my DPhil research. I am still collaborating with my former supervisor, Matthew Rushworth, for some of the new studies of my lab, but have also formed new collaborations with friends that I met in EP who are now working elsewhere in the world.
In addition, I am currently involved in the development of a new neuroscience center of our university. My experience earned in EP has been very useful for helping us to set up a magnetic resonance imaging faciliity and a computer cluster that supports the neuroscience center. Finally, I am also involved in teaching occupational therapist students of my department.
Something important I learned during my time at EP
I really like that in EP people are treated equally. People can discuss science freely without the barrier of rank and hierarchy. Professors and students can easily talk to each other in different occasions, such as over a coffee, after a talk, in someone's office, etc. In addition, I was also very impressed that my supervisor Matthew Rushworth always treated me as a colleague, rather than a subordinate. I still remember that for the first time he introduced me to his children, he said I was a colleague whom he worked with, rather than someone in his lab who worked for him. I think this culture of being casual about titles and serious about science is a very nice culture that I learned in EP and I feel important to have this culture in my lab in Hong Kong.
