Mr Arshad Haider I am interested in understanding the roles of DNA Damage Repair (DDR) in mature neurons and its links to neurodegenerative disorders (including Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases) and ageing. I am utlizting high throughput methods, including wh...
Dr Ajay Halai I completed a cross discipline PhD (MRC Capacity-Building) at the University of Manchester, combining psychology with neuroimaging. I gained technical skills such as acquiring and analysing multi-modal neuroimaging data (MRI, fMRI, EEG and diffusi...
Mr Cameron Hall My PhD centres around the investigation of biomarkers of TBI in patients, including protein markers of neuronal/axonal injury and neuroinflammatory response, as well as small-molecule biomarkers. I will study these biomarkers in brain microdialysa...
Dr Lorna Halliday Dr Halliday currently holds a Medical Research Council (MRC) Senior Fellowship in Hearing Research at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
Dr Halliday's research focuses on auditory perception in children. She studies how auditory processes...
Andrew Siyoon Ham Neural heterogeneity and spatial optimization in recurrent spiking neural networks.
Regan Hamel I am working on a project that investigates the transcriptome of activated non-neuronal cells after traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI). We are employing single cell RNA sequencing, a novel, unbiased, high-throughput technique, to elucidate the te...
Dr Iris Hardege The basics of neural communication is conserved across species, with neurotransmitters acting as messengers across synapses. My work focusses on the receptors for these neurotransmitters and understanding their diversity and function with the nerv...
Professor Roger Hardie Phototransduction, TRP channels and Calcium signalling in Drosophila
Phototransduction in the fruitfly Drosophila is an important model for G-protein coupled signalling and fascinating in its own right. We study the underlying cellular and molecu...
Dr Ed Harding Midlife obesity and diabetes substantially increase the risk of dementia, but the mechanisms are unknown. In my current position in the Merkle laboratory I am attempting to understand the influence of obesity and diabetes on neurodegenerative proc...
Professor Gordon Harold My primary research interests focus on (1) examining the interplay between family relationship dynamics and child-adolescent mental health, (2) understanding the interplay between genetic factors, pre-natal, post-natal environmental factors and ch...
Professor William Harris Where does the nervous system come from in the embryo? How does it grow to the right size and shape? How do stem cells turn into more committed neuronal progenitors and how do these cells know when to leave the cycle and differentiate into neural ...
Mr David Harrison Identification of molecules for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease and dementia.
Dr Eric Harshfield I am a chronic disease and genetic epidemiologist with an interest in identifying novel causal pathways and new therapeutic targets for reducing risk of chronic diseases. Since 2018 I have been working in the Stroke Research Group in the Departmen...
Dr Michael Hastings FRS, FMedSci Cellular and molecular basis to circadian rhythms in mammals and its relevance to metabolic and neurological disease.
Dr Olaf Hauk Methods:
I evaluate and develop EEG/MEG source estimation procedures for connectivity and pattern analysis as well as multi-modal imaging, and apply novel approaches to EEG/MEG analysis to study cognitive variables and tasks. My recent focus has b...
Professor Sarah Hawkins Trained as a psychologist and acoustic phonetician, I have worked mainly on speech perception, including a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship on acoustic-phonetic contributions to a biologically-plausible theory of how speech is understood. From...
Dr Chris Heath I am interested in understanding how pathology-related molecular and cellular changes in defined neuronal circuits affect behaviour and cognition in neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr Berthold Hedwig I analyse the neural mechanisms underlying acoustic communication in insects which use species-specific sounds for mate attraction. I use behavioural, neurophysiological and optical imaging techniques with the aim to understand:
1. The neural mech...
Mr Adel Helmy PhD FRCS (SN) My research interests are in Acute Brain Injury (Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH)) and in particular the innate inflammatory response following TBI. Inflammation plays a role in secondary injury following TBI, but is...
Shalom Henderson I am a PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and a speech-language pathologist by background. My research focuses on determining ways to better understand the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying semantic cognition in pati...
Dr Guillaume Hennequin I study the link between physiology and behaviour from a computational viewpoint. I am interested in the dynamics of sensory and motor cortices, and how they support complex computations such as movement generation or perceptual inference. Through...
Professor Richard (Rik) Henson My primary interest concerns how we remember things. Specifically, I use the techniques of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electro- and magneto- encephalography (EEG/MEG) to examine brain activity as healthy volunteers try to reme...
Professor Joe Herbert I am interested in the role of the brain in adaptive responses, with particular reference to the reciprocal interaction between hormones and the brain. My experimental work is focussed on the way that neural factors, such as serotonin and glucocor...
Professor Allan Herbison We are focused upon understanding the properties and functioning of the key neural populations controlling fertility in mammals; the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons and the kisspeptin neurons. Together, these cells generate the “puls...
Mr Nimrod Hertz I'm a clinical psychologist focusing on idiographic investigation of the cognitive processes that underlie therapeutic gain in transdiagnostic interventions, primarily for patients suffering from PTSD, with the ultimate goal of optimizing treatme...
Dr James Higham I am a Research Associate in Pharmacology interested in the interaction between novel inflammatory mediators and sensory neurons, with the aim of better understanding nociceptive signalling during inflammatory disease. My PhD with Dr David Bulmer ...
Dr Daniel Hill I am interested in the neurophysiology of reward valuation and decision making in the context of learning and memory. My current work is focused on better understanding how dopamine neurons encode value and economic utility. Though their role is w...
Farah Hina Most work on psychosis focuses on hallucinations and delusions but there is good evidence that understanding psychosis requires a deeper consideration of body and self. Our sense of self arises from the integration of multiple brain inputs, includ...
Professor Melissa Hines I study gender development, and am particularly interested in how prenatal influences (e.g., gonadal hormones) interact with postnatal experience to shape brain development and behaviour. My current research programme includes studies of individu...
Mr Hinze Ho Spatially-tuned neurons in the hippocampus and associated cortices encode locations and distance, and underlie an animal's ability to form a mental representation of space and remember the layout of an environment. I am interested in understanding...
Dr Sean Holden Our research covers assorted issues in both theoretical and applied machine learning. At present we are interested in:
- Computational learning theory. How can we better understand the properties of machine learning algorithms in terms of, for ex...
Professor Tony Holland The focus of our interdisciplinary research is on learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities/mental handicap) from different perspectives. Research to date has had the following main themes. First, the relationship between specific genetical...
Dr Joni Holmes I am interested in the overlap between working memory, attention and executive function processes in children and adults. My research has focussed on the role of working memory in children's mathematical skills, and on understanding the cognitive ...
Professor Christine Holt FMedSci FRS My laboratory studies how nerve connections are first established in the brain. We focus on the developing visual system and our main goal is to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms of axon guidance that enable axons to navigate from t...
Dr Natsumi Homma My research aim is to understand the neural mechanisms of selectively extracting sensory information from a complex environment and the functions for experience-dependent cortical plasticity. In my current postdoctoral project, I study the role of...
Dr Young T. Hong My main research area is developing mathematical models and numerical techniques in analysis of positron emission tomography (PET) data. Most of the PET images are obtained for acute head injury, psychiatry and neurology clinical research.
Mr Robert Horne The high attrition rate of drug discovery is a pressing issue for neurodegenerative diseases where very few disease-modifying drugs have been approved. Numerous trials targeted at the suspected pathological species, misfolded protein aggregates, h...
Dr Nicole Horst I am interested in investigating the role of cortico-striatal circuits in flexible behaviour in order to understand how disruption of these circuits and their modulation by various neurotransmitters may underpin the inflexible behaviours observed ...
Ms Li Huang I am researching the ways in which dopaminergic neurons change their form (morphology) and function (firing properties) in order to adapt to the ever-changing environment using the rodent olfactory bulb as my model system. I will be primarily empl...
Dr Yuan Huang I am interested in using mathematical and mechanical tools to describe the biological systems. Better understanding of diseases can be achieved by further analysing the structural and functional imaging data. We hope our work will improve the diag...
Dr Laura Hughes My current research interests are on the role of the prefrontal cortex for voluntary and goal directed actions, and prefrontal interactions with other brain systems. I use both MEG and fMRI, along with behavioural and neuropsychological data, to i...
Dr Ayla Humphrey PhD Ayla Humphrey, Lead for Children and Young People’s Psychology, CPFT and Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Her interest is in the advancement of services for children & families; early identificatio...
Mr Robert (Bobby) Humphrey I study synapse function in neurodegenerative diseases, using organotypic brain slice cultures and electrophysiological recording techniques. In my PhD I hope to establish a relationship between the loss of presynaptic proteins in our slice cultur...
Professor Peter Hutchinson I am a NIHR Research Professor at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. I have a general neurosurgical practice with a subspecialist interest in...
