Sarah Katharina Bühler, PhD

Sarah Bühler is a research fellow at the European Research College (ERC) London, and the ERUNI, and a cognitive neuroscientist whose research lies at the intersection of neuroscience, psychiatry, and pharmacology. Her work focuses on understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety, with particular emphasis on how psychiatric symptoms influence perception, learning, memory, and decision-making.

She completed her PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, under the supervision of Professors Oliver Robinson and Jonathan Roiser. Her doctoral research investigated the mechanisms through which first-line treatments for depression and anxiety exert their effects, with the aim of improving the prediction, prevention, and treatment of mental health disorders. To address these questions, she combines behavioural experimentation, neuroimaging, and large-scale data analysis.

Sarah has held visiting research positions at the Gillan Lab at Trinity College Dublin and the Xiaosi Gu Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She was also selected as a member of the Turing–Roche Partnership Community Scholar Scheme at the Alan Turing Institute.

Her broader research interests include the effects of pharmacological interventions on emotional and cognitive processes, information-seeking behaviour, neuroplasticity, and the computational mechanisms underlying psychopathology.