Will Clark, Dr.

short CV

Since 2022:  Postdoc, Neural Basis of Learning Lab

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

2018 – 2021:  PhD, Neuroscience

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand                

Visiting PhD student: Professor Onur Güntürkün  

Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany  

2017: Bsc(Hons), Neuroscience  

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand  

2013-2015: Bsc, Neuroscience  

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand  

1994: born in Guildford, England

Publications

Clark, W., & Rose, J. (2023). Avian brain: A scanning beam of attention in the pigeon ‘superior colliculus ’. Current Biology, 33(1), R16-R18.

Clark, W., Chilcott, M., & Colombo, M. (2022). The effect of progressive image scrambling on neuronal responses at three stations of the pigeon tectofugal pathway. Scientific reports, 12(1), 14190.

Clark, W., Chilcott, M., Azizi, A., Pusch, R., Perry, K., & Colombo, M. (2022). Neurons in the pigeon visual network discriminate between faces, scrambled faces, and sine grating images. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-12.

Clark, W. J., & Colombo, M. (2020). The functional architecture, receptive field characteristics, and representation of objects in the visual network of the pigeon brain. Progress in Neurobiology, 195, 101781.

Clark, W. J., Porter, B., & Colombo, M. (2019). Searching for face-category representation in the avian visual forebrain. Frontiers in physiology, 10, 140.

Clark, W. J., & Colombo, M. (2018). Face-selective neurons: comparative perspectives. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior; Springer International Publishing AG: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, 1-10.

Scholarships

THINK@Ruhr Postdoctoral Fellowship – Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, April 2022

Elman Poole Traveling Scholarship – University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, May 2019

Otago Medical Research Foundation: Eliza Goulding Scholarship – University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 2017