At the University of Oxford, he completed a DPhil from the Department of Experimental Psychology in 1988 based on unit recording of face-responsive neurons in the monkey temporal lobe.
From 1988 to 1991, Hasselmo completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology where he published work on modulatory mechanisms in cortical brain slice preparations.
Following his post-doc, Hasselmo was an Associate Professor at Harvard University studying the cholinergic modulation of synaptic transmission and spike frequency accommodation in cortical structures.
Notable lab alumni include Prof. Mark Brandon, Prof. Thom Cleland, Prof. Holger Dannenberg, Prof. Amy Griffin, Prof. Lisa Giocomo, Prof. James Heys, Prof. Marc Howard, Prof. Jake Hinman and many more.
He’s received the Hebb Award from the International Neural Network Society recognizing achievement in Biological Learning, and was appointed as a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor.