Sijia Zhao
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Oxford
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSijia Zhao is a cognitive neuroscience postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford with 11 years of research experience investigating motivation, fatigue, hearing and attention using pupillometry and EEG. Trained in neuroscience and computer science (BSc Neuroscience, MSc Computer Science, PhD from UCL), she combines rigorous experimental design with practical online experimentation—many of her task codes are shared on Pavlovia. Her work sits at the intersection of basic cognition and applied measurement, translating physiological signals into insights about motivation and perceptual processing. Having held prior postdoc and research roles at UCL and a research internship at the BBC, she brings both academic depth and experience in public-facing research settings.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Chengdu Shishi High SchoolChengdu Foreign Language SchoolUniversity College London
English, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
experiment10
linguistics10
psychology10
experimental-design10
psychopy9
philosophy9
cognitive-science9
science9
electrophysiology9
neuroscience9
sbml9
python8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ChaitLabUCL/HeadphoneCheck_Test
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
Headphone-use screening test developed by Chait lab (UCL). The JS version is implemented by Sijia Zhao.
Contributions:57 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year
ucllabauditoryscreeningonline-experiment
sijiazhao/psychojs
May 2020 - Mar 2024
PsychoJS is the online counterpart of the PsychoPy Python library.
Contributions:28 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 10 months
python-librarypythonpsychojspython3psychopy
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