Dr Anna Guttesen

Anna Guttesen is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr Melanie Fleming’s NeuroRehab Research Group and Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg's Plasticity Group. Her work focuses on understanding the role of sleep for memory consolidation in healthy adults across the lifespan and in stroke survivors. 

In particular, her work focusses on measuring sleep-related EEG signatures and their contributions to memory consolidation. To investigate this, Anna uses a mix of techniques including behavioural, EEG and other neuroimaging measures combined with paradigms such as auditory closed-loop stimulation and targeted memory reactivation. Her research takes place both inside and outside the lab setting, from tightly controlled neuroimaging studies in the lab to naturalistic at-home environment using wearable EEG devices. 

Prior to joining Oxford, Anna completed a PhD at the Department of Psychology, University of York, supervised by Dr Scott Cairney and Prof Gareth Gaskell, where she investigated sleep’s role in overnight consolidation and next-day learning of declarative memories.