Tamar Makin (תמר מיקין) is an Israeli neuroscientist who is a professor of neuroscience at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
She was awarded Fellowship to study brain plasticity at the University of Oxford, where she was eventually made a principal investigator.
[1] In 2016, Makin joined the faculty at University College London, where she was made a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience.
At UCL, Makin studied how artificial limbs were represented in the brains of people with amputations.
Makin combines neuroscience, psychology and bioengineering and to help people benefit from brain plasticity.