Professor Joseph Galea PhD

Professor Joseph Galea

School of Psychology
Professor of Motor Neuroscience
Head of Research

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 3601
Email
j.galea@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Psychology
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Galea uses a range of techniques (behaviour, brain imaging, brain stimulation, computational modelling) to investigate motor control and learning in health and disease. At present, he is particularly interested in reward-based motor learning and how sequential actions (typing, handwriting) are planned and executed. 

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Qualifications

BSc, University 麻豆精选
PhD, University 麻豆精选

Biography

Professor Galea completed his PhD on bimanual coordination in the School of Psychology at the University 麻豆精选 with Professor Chris Miall. He subsequently worked at Johns Hopkins University as a research fellow where he investigated the neural correlates of motor learning with Professor Pablo Celnik. Following this, he moved to University College London as a senior research fellow with Professor John Rothwell and became interested in the motor deficits of Parkinson’s disease patients. Professor Galea took up an independent research fellow post at the University 麻豆精选, funded by the ‘Birmingham Fellows’ scheme, before becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2016, a Reader in 2020 and Professor in 2024. His research has been funded by the ERC (starting grant), MRC and BBSRC.

Postgraduate supervision

Potential postgraduate students should email me to discuss funding opportunities.

Research

Research interests

Motor learning, Motor control, Brain stimulation, Brain imaging, Stroke rehabilitation, Genetics.  

Other activities

Early-career award from the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2018

Elected member of the Young Academy of Europe, 2016

Klein-Vogelbach prize for the research of human movement, 2012

Publications

Highlight publications

Codol, O, Holland, PJ, Manohar, SG & Galea, JM 2020, '', The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 40, no. 18, pp. 3604-3620.

Chen, X, Voets, S, Jenkinson, N & Galea, J 2019, '', The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 661-670. ,

Galea, J, Mallia, E, Rothwell, JC & Diedrichsen, J 2015, '', Nature Neuroscience, vol. 18, pp. 597-602.

Galea, JM, Vazquez, A, Pasricha, N, de Xivry, J-JO & Celnik, P 2011, '', Cerebral Cortex, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1761-70.

Codol, O, Kashefi, M, Forgaard, CJ, Galea, JM, Pruszynski, JA & Gribble, PL 2023, '', eLife, vol. 12, e81325.

Recent publications

Article

Sporn, S & Galea, JM 2025, '', PLOS One, vol. 20, no. 1, e0316894.

Abdlkarim, D, Di Luca, M, Aves, P, Maaroufi, M, Yeo, SH, Miall, RC, Holland, P & Galea, JM 2024, '', Behavior Research Methods, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 1052-1063.

Hamel, R, Waltzing, BM, Hinder, MR, McAllister, C, Jenkinson, N & Galea, JM 2024, '', Brain stimulation, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 349-361.

Hickman, LJ, Sowden-Carvalho, SL, Fraser, DS, Schuster, BA, Rybicki, AJ, Galea, JM & Cook, JL 2024, '', Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 474, 115213.

Weightman, M, Lalji, N, Lin, C-HS, Galea, J, Jenkinson, N & Miall, C 2023, '', Brain stimulation, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 431-441.

Hamel, R, Pearson, J, Sifi, L, Patel, D, Hinder, MR, Jenkinson, N & Galea, JM 2023, '', Brain stimulation, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1462-1475.

Sporn, S, Chen, X & Galea, JM 2022, '', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 86-104.

Rybicki, AJ, Galea, JM, Schuster, BA, Hiles, C, Fabian, C & Cook, JL 2021, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 20693.

Codol, O, Galea, JM, Jalali, R & Holland, PJ 2020, '', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 238, no. 7-8, pp. 1781-1793.

Holland, P, Codol, O, Oxley, E, Taylor, M, Hamshere, E, Joseph, S, Huffer, L & Galea, J 2019, '', The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 39, no. 47, pp. 9383-9396. ,

Chen, X, Rutledge, RB, Brown, HR, Dolan, RJ, Bestmann, S & Galea, JM 2018, '', PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 14, no. 7, e1006304.

Sadnicka, A, Galea, JM, Chen, J-C, Warner, TT, Bhatia, KP, Rothwell, JC & Edwards, MJ 2018, '', Movement Disorders.

Sadnicka, A, Stevenson, A, Bhatia, KP, Rothwell, JC, Edwards, MJ & Galea, J 2018, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 8, 3653.

Jalali, R, Chowdhury, A, Wilson, M, Miall, R & Galea, J 2018, '', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 236, no. 4, pp. 997鈥�1006.

Holland, PJ, Codol, O & Galea, JM 2018, '', Journal of Neurophysiology.