Dr Umar Sadat 1. Ultrasound, Computerised Tomography, Magnetic resonance imaging, Cellular Imaging of atherosclerosis
2. Role of biomechanics in pathogenesis of atherosclerotic plaques, aortic aneurysms and in aortic stent graft design & failure
3. Contrast-in...
Professor Barbara Sahakian FMedSci DSc My research is aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive, emotional and behavioural dysfunction in order to develop more effective pharmacological and psychological treatments. The focus of my lab is on early detection, differential dia...
Júlia Sala-Bayo I am interested in the neural mechanisms that underlie executive functions and cognitive control.
The main aim of my research is to gain understanding of the neural circuit involved in cognitive flexibility. Specifically, how dopamine in stratal...
Dr Marina Salorio-Corbetto Marina's research interests are related to the evaluation of hearing aids for people with high-frequency hearing loss, including those with extensive high-frequency dead regions. She has conducted trials using frequency-lowering prototype and comm...
Dr Alvaro Sanchez-Martinez My general research interests are focused on mitochondrial related early-onset and ageing diseases. In particular, how mitochondrial damage/dysfunction and environmental factors, such as stress, may influence ageing and onset as well as progressio...
Dr Lorena Santamaria EEG and non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tACS),vision, sleep, creativity....
Dr Andrea Santangelo M My work focuses on gene variation associated to emotional and cognitive behaviour. In particular, I study polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene that are linked to vulnerability to early-life stress and the development of affective disord...
Dr George Savulich Cognitive enhancement in neuropsychiatric disorders and in healthy people; the impact of technology on older age mental health; the effects of novel psychoactive substances on cognition and emotion; and information-processing biases in psychosis.
Professor Stephen Sawcer My group researches multiple sclerosis. We use genetic analysis to identify relevant variants and then attempt to understand the immunological and neurobiological consequences of these using expression studies and functional assays. As well as con...
Dr Stephen Sawiak I am a physicist working with MRI.
My primary research interest has been in morphometry, with structural imaging, diffusion tensor imaging and spectroscopy. I am particularly focussed on preclinical applications.
Dr William Schafer The fundamental nature of mental phenomena such as perception, learning and memory is one of the remaining scientific mysteries. Since the neuroanatomy of mammalian nervous systems is exceedingly complex and incompletely characterized, it is diffi...
Dr Elaine Schmidt Elaine Schmidt’s research interests centre around the processing of prosody and sentence structure. She is particularly interested in processing differences and similarities between adults and children, as well as between monolinguals and bilingua...
Dr Katherine Schon BM BCh MRCP I am doing clinical and genomic research supervised by Prof Patrick Chinnery and Prof Rita Horvath. I am interested in the use of whole genome sequencing to diagnose mitochondrial disorders. I am working with the 100 000 genomes dataset and with...
Professor Wolfram Schultz FRS Our group is interested to relate the mechanics of brain activity to measurable behaviour. We combine neurophysiological, imaging and behavioural techniques to investigate the neural correlates of goal-directed. We are interested in outcome value ...
Dr Christof Schwiening Electrical activity of neurones is associated with calcium influx through various channels. Most neurones extrude this calcium very rapidly on the plasma-membrane calcium pump (PMCA). Our research shows that this extrusion occurs in exchange for h...
Dr Kadri Seppa Kadri has a keen interest in neurodegeneration induced by the environment. The Sawarkar lab has shown that toxic injury leads to global transcriptional downregulation, and they have generated mouse strains lacking specific domains of proteins that...
Professor Rodolphe Sepulchre We use tools from feedback control theory and machine learning to study the modulation and robustness of neuronal circuits. We are particularly interested in the mechanisms that transfer rhythmic activity across a range of temporal and spatial sca...
Fatih Serin Currently trying to select a topic to tackle episodic memory with computational and neuroimaging methods.
Miss Ilkem Sevgili I am currently working on the cochlea-on-a-chip model. Using this model, my ultimate goal is to discover therapeutics to prevent or treat hearing loss and optimize cochlear implant stimulation parameters for a better patient experience. My work m...
Olivia Sheppard The main focus of my research is to use mouse organotypic hippocampal slice cultures as a tool to study sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD). My project aims to mimic risk factors which have been associated with AD, such as diet and exercise, infecti...
Emily Sherman I am interested in the differences between learned and innate odour processing in the cortical amygdala and piriform cortex and the subsequent behavioral output. My project aims to elucidate the mechanism behind how animals observe and internalize...
Dr Toshiaki Shigeoka RNA transport and local translation play key roles in the formation and function of neural network. Recent in vitro studies provide evidence that the local translation in axon is critical for the axon pathfinding during development. However, becau...
Dr Emad Sidhom I am interested in neurodegenerative disorders, in particular Alzheimer's Disease. I work to understand the pathological mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative processes. I aim to search for the failure of synaptic repair and modify the unfolded...
Professor Ben Simons I am interested in applying methods of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and population dynamics to lineage tracing studies to investigate mechanisms of stem cell fate in development and maintenance. As well as neurogenesis in adult mammalian ...
Professor Jon Simons Our research investigates the cognitive and brain mechanisms responsible for the subjective experience of remembering, and how we use mental experiences to make sense of the world, helping us to keep a grip on reality.
This work involves inter-re...
Dr Nikolina Skandali MD PhD MRCPsych MSc I am a psychiatry registrar in Addenbrooke's hospital and an Academic Clinical Fellow with the Dpt of psychiatry working with Professor Valerie Voon. I am interested in decision-making, impulsivity and compulsivity, and the underlying neural mecha...
Dr John Skidmore I am a medicinal chemist and drug discovery leader interested in working collaboratively with academics and industry in order to translate basic neurodegeneration research into potential new treatments.
The Alzheimer’s Research UK Cambridge Drug ...
Dr Peter Smielewski In an established environment of Clinical Neuroscience Dept large quantities of data can be captured from bed-side monitors. Using that data, continuous assessment of changing cerebrovascular haemodynamics and oxygenation is possible but requires ...
Mr Brandon Smith BSc (Hons) As a current MBBS/PhD student, my research is centered on the contextual challenges associated with long-term follow-up of patients of whom have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Using a mixed m...
Dr Ewan Smith The main interest of the Smith lab is to understand the molecular mechanisms by which sensory neurones detect noxious stimuli, so-called nociceptors. We are particularly interested in how acid activates nociceptors in both physiological and pathop...
Tess Smith Currently a PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, my research investigates the ways in which adversity influences neurodevelopment, and how the interaction between genetic, neural, environmental, and cognitive mechanisms promot...
Dr Daniel Sobrido-Cameán During my PhD, I have been carrying out studies using lampreys as an animal model for spinal cord injury. Lampreys are a good model of regeneration/plasticity. But, also has some limitations. For example, their life cycle takes between 5 and 7 yea...
Dr Saurabh Sonkusare I have primarily been trained and worked as a medical doctor (MBBS) with a subsequent PhD in Neurosciences from QIMR Berghofer/The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
I utilise neuroimaging (LFPs, fMRI) and neuromodulation tools (TMS) ...
Miss Chandika Soondram Several neurological diseases have been associated with the activation of multiple immune signalling pathways as the classical complement pathway. Such overactivated immune signalling, which is proposed to contribute to the disease progression, is...
Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini FRS FMedSci Our interest is in the identification of the mechanisms leading to neuronal death and clinical phenotype in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and frontotemporal dementia. In particular we study the role of microtubule-assoc...
Lennart R. B. Spindler After previous work in neurotransmitter and neuromodulator systems from micro-, meso- and macroscopic angles, Lennart is currently working with multimodal neuroimaging approaches to develop a framework to understand how neurotransmitter and neurom...
Professor Peter St George-Hyslop My laboratory focuses upon understanding the causes and molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and Fronto-Temporal Dementia. We and others have shown that these diseases are frequently c...
Dr Sybil Stacpoole I am currently a neurology registrar, having completed a PhD working with neural precursor cells derived from human embryonic stem cells. I studied the pathways involved in directing neural precursor cells into oligodendrocytes, and investigated...
Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis My work employs behavioural tasks, mathematical models, network science, information theoretical approaches and machine learning to determine the systems-level mechanisms that govern cognitive function, both in health and disease. Currently, my wo...
Miss Eva-Maria Stauffer I am interested in the relationship between genetic variations and brain structure and function in psychiatric disorders. My current projects focus on schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.
Dr James Stefaniak I am a neuroscientist and psychiatrist interested in cognition and its impairment following acute (e.g. stroke) and progressive (e.g. dementia) brain damage as well as psychiatric disorders.
Moritz Steinruecke My intercalated BSc project focussed on the regulation of specific metabolic pathways in axonal regeneration (Supervisor: Professor Simone Di Giovanni, Imperial College London).
Cecilia Steinwurzel I'm currently studying the underlying mechanisms of learning using behavioural and neuroimaging data. We are particularly interested in the interplay between expectations and learning, and in the role played by thalamic nuclei in shaping these exp...
Dr Jan Stochl I serve as psychometrician and statistician. I am currently working on psychometric properties of scales used in psychiatry. I am interested in latent variable modeling - structural equation modeling, item response modeling, latent class modeling,...
Dr John Henry Stockley Oligodendrocytes are the myelinating cells of the CNS, important for neural communication, neuronal survival as well as learning and memory. My work is focused on understanding how myelin functions and the molecular components regulating its gener...
Ms Alex Strauss Currently I investigate immunophenotype across various pathologies of dementia. I hope to understand how different immune profiles characterize neurodegeneration and may contribute to disease progression.
Broadly, I am interested in Consciousnes...
Dr Tomke Stuerner I am a neuroscientist interested in the structure function relationship of neurons and neuronal circuits.
In the laboratory of Greg Jefferis at the LMB and in collaboration with the Drosophila Connectomics group at the Zoology department I am stu...
Dr Li Su I lead Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience group (http://www.aicn-group.com). I am Chair of Neuroimaging in Neuroscience Institute at University of Sheffield and Principal Research Fellow (Professor Grade 11) at Department of Ps...
John Suckling Can neuroimaging improve patient outcomes? We are looking at ways neuroimaging - the combination of brain imaging and computational methodologies - can have a direct impact on the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of developmental conditions, co...
Nontapat Sukhonpanich Research involving clinical data, MR imaging and genetic data on stroke patients, especially CADASIL patients and patients with small vessel diseases
Dr Ajenthan Surendranathan I am a Specialist Registrar in Neurology working under the supervision of Professor John O'Brien at the University.
My research is focused on Lewy Body Dementia, in particular its diagnosis utilising imaging and biomarkers.
Dr Ben Sutcliffe In the Drosophila olfactory system around 1300 olfactory receptor neurons transmit sensory information to the antennal lobe where neurons of the same class converge on distinct glomeruli. Projection neuron dendrites innervate these glomeruli in a...
Miss Julia Szacilo I am currently working as a research assistant on an international study called ProNET (Psychosis-Risk Outcomes Network), investigating high risk psychosis using a variety of biological and cognitive biomarkers. I am working for the Cambridgeshire...
Dr Denes Szucs Dénes Sz?cs has background in cognitive neuroscience and psychology. He has used electro-encephalography (EEG), electro-myography (EMG), functional near infrared imaging (fNIRS), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioural methods. ...
