Dr. Charlotte Stagg

Dr. Charlotte Stagg has wanted to be a research scientist since the age of ten. After a slight detour into medicine, Charlotte was drawn back into neuroscience research during medical school when she used noninvasive recording and stimulation techniques to study stroke recovery. She eventually left the medical profession behind entirely and decided to get her PhD at the University of Oxford, where she investigated the role of inhibition in successful motor learning. For her postdoctoral research Charlotte remained at Oxford, a decision reinforced by her desire to keep her family in London. Now, as a professor of human neurophysiology at Oxford, the Stagg Lab studies the neural underpinnings of motor learning in healthy subjects and after stroke. In addition to her lab’s research, Charlotte makes an effort to prioritize mentorship and push herself out of her academic “comfort zone.”