Nina Sooter is a Research Associate/Postdoctoral Researcher in the Leverhulme International Professorship in Neuroeconomics group at the University of Cambridge.  She employs neuroscientific methods to research decision-making and adaptive control.

Her current project investigates the role of the anterior insula in surprise and adaptive control across environments, for which she is collaborating with the Geneva University Hospital to collect and analyse intracranial EEG data. As a neuroscientist in a world of economists, she values interdisciplinary research and the progress that can be made by combining perspectives and methods.

Nina’s previous research included investigating the impacts of acute stress on honesty decisions, examining decision-making in risky, negatively skewed gambles and its physiological underpinnings, and probing the neuroscience and psychological mechanisms behind prosocial behavior. She is a proponent of open science and scientific communication to wider audiences.