Dr Jo Cutler is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow in the Centre for Human Brain Health at the University of Birmingham. Her research uses computational modelling, neuroimaging, and big data to understand how we make choices that involve other people. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford then the University of Birmingham. Jo obtained her Psychology PhD at the University of Sussex. She also holds an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Sussex and studied undergraduate Psychology at the University of Leeds and the University of Sydney. Jo was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in 2025. You can read more about her research and the science behind why people help here.
