Margot Tirole

Margot Tirole is a Senior Research Fellow in the Duan and Erlich labs. Her research bridges behaviour, large-scale neural recordings, and computational approaches to understand how neural representations are formed, adapted, and stabilised to guide action in dynamic environments.

Margot completed a BBSRC-funded PhD in Neuroscience at University College London with Daniel Bendor and Caswell Barry, where she investigated the role and structure of hippocampal replay in the prioritisation and organisation of experiences for long-term memory consolidation. She then joined Geoffrey Schoenbaum’s lab at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program (NIH), where she expanded her work to study hippocampo-orbitofrontal interactions during decision-making and memory consolidation. During her time at the NIH, she was awarded the Scientific Director’s (SDFDR) Fellowship.

Her research aims to define the principles by which the brain flexibly links memory and decision-making across sleep and wakefulness, with the broader goal of understanding the neural mechanisms underlying flexible and inflexible behaviour.