Professor Kwok studies the neural basis of memory using behavioural and neurosurgical methods on nonhuman primate and human neuroimaging. His recent works investigate the dissociable effects of top-down versus bottom-up attention on retrieval processes of episodic details. Prior to joining East China Normal University, he held a research fellow position at Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome, Italy (2009-2015), and obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK (2004-2008).