Andy Lee

Andy Lee is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Toronto, where he leads the Lee MTL Lab. Using a variety of methodological approaches including functional brain imaging and the study of individuals with memory disorders, his research group investigates how the brain supports memory processing, and how memory interacts with visual perception and motivational decision making.

Andy received his undergraduate degree in Psychology, Physiology, and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and subsequently obtained a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge. After a post-doctoral position at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, he continued his training at the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford on a Royal Society Relocation Fellowship and a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship. In 2011, Andy moved to the University of Toronto to take up a faculty position in the Department of Psychology (Scarborough Campus), where he is now an Associate Professor. Andy is also an Associate Faculty Member of the Department of Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto, as well as an Adjunct Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto.