Rate My Professor Benjamin Griffiths

Benjamin Griffiths is Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Nottingham. He joined the School of Psychology in April 2025. Prior to this appointment, he served as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, from April 2022 to March 2025. He completed postdoctoral research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, from January 2020 to March 2022. Griffiths earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Birmingham in 2020, with a thesis on the role of neural oscillations in the formation and retrieval of human episodic memories. He also holds an MSc in Psychology from the University of Birmingham and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Leeds.

Griffiths investigates the neural mechanisms underlying episodic memory, with particular emphasis on how rhythmic fluctuations in brain activity, known as neural oscillations, support complex cognitive tasks such as recalling distant memories and navigating real-world environments. His research employs techniques including electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and rhythmic sensory stimulation. Key publications include “Gamma oscillations and episodic memory” (Trends in Neurosciences, 2023), “Electrophysiological signatures of veridical head direction in humans” (Nature Human Behaviour, 2024), and “Directional coupling of slow and fast hippocampal gamma with neocortical alpha/beta oscillations in human episodic memory” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019). He has received the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and the Cermak/Corkin Award from the Memory Disorders Research Society in 2024. Griffiths contributes to the field through numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals such as eLife, Nature Communications, and NeuroImage.