Mr Jascha Achterberg As a part of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit I am studying the neuronal dynamics of complex problem solving and computations underlying general intelligence in brains and machines. I am especially interested in rapid One-Shot learning an...
Debbie Adam Educational and Behavioral Neuroscience
Dr Richard Adams My group is interested in the mechanisms of morphogenesis that shape the early central nervous system. Using zebrafish as a developmental model, we image the movements of many hundreds of cells using time-lapse micoscopy. Applying methods of image...
Dr Deep Adhya We have recently shown that the in-vitro neural tube structure, the ‘neural rosette’ is affected in autism induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived neurons. This suggests that an autism diagnosis has genetic and epigenetic influences affecting...
Alice Adriaenssens My work focuses on characterising the central targets of incretin hormones to better understand the gut-brain axis and its role in regulating food intake.
Dr Javier Aguilera-Lizarraga My research aims to unravel the molecular characteristics of visceral sensory neurons and identify the mechanisms underlying chronic visceral pain
Dr Yashar Ahmadian Our broad interest is in understanding how large networks of neurons, e.g. those in the cerebral cortex, process sensory inputs and give rise to our perception and cognitive functions through their collective dynamics and learning on multiple tim...
Professor Franklin Aigbirhio Research in the development and application of molecular imaging probes, in particular for the in vivo imaging technique of positron emission tomography. Objectives are to design, develop and apply imaging probes that are specific and selective to...
Professor Ozgur B. Akan Our research interests are Internet of Everything, Internet of Bio-Nano Things, Neural Communication, Molecular Communication, Signal Processing and Information Theory. We are particularly interested in developing nanomaterial-based neuro-interfac...
Dr Danyal Akarca I'm a medical doctor and computational neuroscience PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, researching generative models of brain networks.
I'm interested in the essential generative principles driving the development of struct...
Dr Reem (Eema) Al-Jawahiri I am a postdoctoral cognitive neuroscientist (research associate) at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. I work as part of the Genomic Disorders and Cognitive Development lab group (www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/our-researc...
Raghda Al-Najjar My research focus on identifying the possible mechanism behind why some patients with multiple sclerosis have progressive disease. I am currently finemapping the only genetic variant confidently associated with progression in MS.
Maha Alfaidi My research aims to better define the selective vulnerability of neurons toward the pathological protein in Parkinson's disease model. Neurons exposed to misfolded ?-synuclein can develop pathological protein aggregates, it has recently been shown...
Dr Farah Alimagham My research focuses on designing novel analytical techniques based on mid-infrared spectroscopy for industrial, environmental and medical sensing applications. I am currently working on the development of a novel sensor for continuous and near rea...
Dr Máté Aller My research broadly focuses on understanding the neural bases of speech perception. More specifically, I am investigating: (1) how the brain integrates auditory and visual speech signals during speech comprehension, (2) what are the neural mechani...
Dr Johan Alsiö Cognitive flexibility is required to respond to changes in the environment and behavioural inflexibility can reduce functioning in everyday life. Brain disorders such as schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease are linked to impaired cognitive flexib...
Miss Lucie Aman I am working on psychosis in Prader Willi syndrome. PWS is a rare genetic disease characterised by hyperphagia, poor muscle tone, intellectual disability, and mental health problems such as depression anxiety and psychosis.
PWS is caused by the l...
Professor Michael Anderson Dr. Anderson focuses on fundamental mechanisms of memory, attention, and cognitive control, and their interaction. A central observation is that memory, like other aspects of cognition and behaviour, poses problems of control. Dr. Anderson uses ...
Dr Richard Ansorge My current interests include hardware and software development for various medical imaging modalities, especially PET and MRI. This work is done in close collaboration with the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre. One particular current project is the d...
Dr Dace Apšvalka I work on (f)MRI methods development and support.
Dr Anmol Arora MBBChir (Hons) (Cantab) Anmol Arora is an Academic Foundation Doctor at Cambridge University with an intercalated degree in Management Studies from the Cambridge Judge Business School. His research focusses on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in he...
Dr Peter Arthur-Farraj I am a neurology registrar with an interest in neuromuscular disorders and nerve repair. I have recently been awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellowship, to work with Professor Michael Coleman’s group at the John Van Geest Cen...
Miss Athina Aruldass Immunological interplay in pathoetiology of mood disorders is a long-standing concept dating back to the early 20th century. Over the past two decades, irrefutable evidence linking peripheral inflammation i.e. blood inflammatory markers, and depre...
Dr Anat Arzi Consciousness is a central aspect of our experience of the world. The neural fingerprint of this experience, however, remains one of the least understood aspects of the human brain. No agreement has yet emerged on which aspects of brain function u...
Dr Abhishekh Ashok MBBS PhD I am visiting researcher at the Department of Radiology. My research interest include developing novel neuroimaging techniques to understand the molecular process underlying physiological and pathological states of brain. My research uses novel MR...
Dr Jane Aspell What is a Self? How does our brain generate the conscious experiencer of our lives? What is the relation between the physical self - the body - and the mental self? Jane Aspell aims to tackle these thorny questions lying at the intersection of neu...
Moataz Assem I study the precise anatomical and functional organization of domain-general brain regions using mutlimodal MRI techniques of the Human Connectome Project (HCP) and invasive electrophysiology data from human patients.
Domain-general or Multiple-...
Dr Duncan Astle Duncan is a Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.
He is also a Fellow and Director of Studies at Robinson College. Within the School of Clinical Medicine he is the Chair of the NIHR BioResource, a...
Dr Adam Attaheri Language is a rhythmic stimulus made up of multiple sound waves occurring at multiple timescales. In a similar fashion, our brains are continually producing multiple waves of electricity at different frequencies and we call these brain waves ‘cort...
Professor Topun Austin I am a Consultant Neonatologist in Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Neurophotonics at University College London and have an interest in brain injury and imaging in the newborn.
I lead the Evelyn Perinatal Imaging Centre (EPIC), based at the Ro...
Edward Avezov Through an in-depth investigation of the neuronal cell biophysical properties, our program aims to Identify new targetable pathways, disrupted in dementia. In particular, we seek understanding of the role Endoplasmic Reticulum, and its structure f...
Mr Tiago Azevedo Computer Science methods applied in neuroscientific datasets, with a particular focus on connectomes.
Dr Thiago B. Burghi Devices that interface with the nervous system are improving dramatically, but the complexity and variability of neuronal systems make it difficult to reliably control the activity of living neurons. In my research, I am developing a method for dr...
Julie Bailey My doctoral research project at the Faculty of Education focuses on the experience of autistic pupils in mainstteam education, through an investigation of the behavioural indicators of engagemnet with classroom learning. This study applies finding...
Professor Clare Baker We are investigating a broad range of questions relating to the development of neurogenic placodes and the neural crest, two embryonic cell populations in vertebrates that together build the entire peripheral nervous system. Current projects inclu...
Dr Kate Baker Genomic technology is now enabling the identification of many novel causes of neurodevelopmental disorder. This provides a new starting point for understanding the relationships between specific genetic mutation, neuronal function, brain developm...
Dr Sara Baker I am interested in the role of pre-frontal functions (i.e., impulse control) in the formation and expression of beliefs especially during early childhood. I use behavioral and physiological measures (eye-tracking) to examine how children learn to...
Dr Gemma Bale Gemma is the head of the Neuro Optics Lab, a new, multidisciplinary research group that operates jointly between the Departments of Physics and Engineering at the University of Cambridge. We develop and validate new optical methods to monitor brai...
Dr Gabriel Balmus My lab is interested in understanding the roles of DNA Damage Repair (DDR) in mature neurons and its links to neurodegenerative disorders (including Alzheimer's and related diseases) and ageing. We are using a variety of tools including CRISPR-Ca...
Dr Paula Banca My research is aimed at understanding the neural mechanisms underlying action control with the purpose of developing more effective treatments in psychiatric diseases. I am interested in compulsive disorders, particularly Obsessive-Compulsive Diso...
Professor Manohar Bance I am a clinician-scientist interested in disorders of hearing and balance
In particular, we are interested in how cochlear implants stimulate the auditory system, ways to improve stimulation, measuring outcomes and measures of hearing and balance ...
Dr Koby Baranes I am using forward reprogramming methods to generate oligodendrocytes and other glial cells from human pluripotent stem cells. The main goal of my research is to establish a model system which will allow to study myelination both in normal and in...
Dr Emma Barker Emma is a Senior Commercialisation Associate in Life Sciences at Cambridge Enterprise responsible for identifying, managing, developing and commercialising a variety of life science IP.
Prior to joining Cambridge Enterprise, Emma spent 10 years i...
Professor Roger Barker I work on:
Clinical aspects of Parkinson's and Huntington's disease including the study of disease heterogeneity using cognitive testing, functional imaging and genetic biomarkers.
Examining the value of different biomarkers to assess disease onse...
Dr Philip Barnard My programme of work focuses mainly on Executive Control and Emotional Meanings in Cognitive and Neural systems. Current work is organised under four project headings:
[a] Core Theoretical work on Interacting Cognitive Subsystems - a macro-theory...
Dr Jennifer Barnett I'm a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist with some training in genetics and epidemiology. I’m interested in how genetic and environmental factors affect cognitive functions and mental health throughout life. This includes the development of...
Professor Jean-Claude Baron My research focuses on the pathophysiology of ischaemic stroke and the mechanisms underlying subsequent deterioration or recovery, including neuronal damage, tissue inflammation and long-term plasticity processes. In terms of methodology, my appro...
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen The Autism Research Centre (ARC), of which I am Director, has 6 programs of research, all focusing on Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC):
(a) Perception and Cognition (investigating social and non-social cognition and sensory processing);
(b) Neu...
Dr Damiano G. Barone Due to the inability of the nervous system to regenerate itself, injuries to the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve can have a profound impact on patients, their families and society. Current treatment options remain limited.
Bioelectronics...
Professor Michael Bate My research is concerned with the way in which the machinery underlying coordinated movement is genetically specified and assembled during embryonic development. On the one hand this involves an analysis of the way in which muscles are assembled, ...
Professor Andrew Bateman In June 2019 I left "Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" where I developed my research strategy that has three themes: i) development of assessments, ii) development and immplementation innovative therapeutic interventi...
Miss Izabele Batkovskyte My primary research interests concern the mechanisms underlying the heterogeneity of presentations and outcomes in psychosis. I am also working on the Psychosis Risk Outcomes Network (ProNET) study, which aims to identify multimodal biomarkers sp...
Robert Batt MSt, MSc, Professor (H.C.) The use of A.I. and other digital health solutions to enable the provision of psychological support to those who might not usually be able to access these services.
Urte Beatrice Baublyte I am investigating rates of protein synthesis in different hippocampal neuron types. Despite protein synthesis-dependent forms of synaptic plasticity having been studied extensively, there is limited direct evidence of protein synthesis happening ...
Dr Howard Baylis We are investigating the functions of genes involved in Alzheimer’s disease using C. elegans. We have focussed on presenilin genes as presenilin mutations in human cause familial Alzheimer’s disease. We aim to address the mechanism by which presen...
Professor Paul Bays In order to interact with the world, our brains construct and sustain their own internal representations of it. Our aim is to understand the nature of these representations and the computations the brain performs on them to achieve behavioural goa...
Saashi Bedford My research focuses on using neuroimaging to try to parse the heterogeneity observed in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. I am particularly interested in sex differences, subgrouping, and brain-behaviour relationships.
Dr Tristan Bekinschtein I am interested in non-classic approaches to study the physiology and cognition of consciousness.
I have wide Interests in Cognition and neurophysiology. In the last few years I have been mainly concentrating in describing different states of con...
Dr David Belin Our research is interested in the neural, cellular and molecular substrates of inter-individual vulnerability to develop impulsive/compulsive disorders such as drug addiction, Obsessive / Compulsive Disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, pathological gamb...
Dr Aude Belin-Rauscent My research is interested in the neurophysiological and neuropharmacological substrates of compulsive disorders such as drug addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Dr Steven Bell I am an Epidemiologist based at the Stroke Research Group with an interest in cardiovascular disease and related conditions.
At present my work utilises genome-wide association studies (GWAS) alongside bioinformatic approaches to obtain insights ...
Dr Riccardo Beltramo We aim to understand how the brain transforms sensory signals into the neural representations of the outside world that guide our behaviour.
Our lab uses the mouse visual system as a model and studies the contribution of parallel visual pathways ...
Professor German Berrios I am interested in the study of psychiatric symptoms (e.g. hallucinations, delusions, obsessions) appearing in the context of neurological disease.
Since the 19th century, the view that 'mental symptoms' seen in the context of neurological diseas...
Dr Anne Bertolotti Diverse neurodegenerative diseases share a common cause: aggregation of a specific protein in selective regions of the brain.
The disease-causing proteins are expressed throughout life but neurodegenerative diseases are mostly late-onset. In fac...
Richard Bethlehem I am director of neuroimaging at the Autism Research Centre and will be joining the department of psychology as an assistant professor of neuroinfomatics in 2023. My work focuses on understanding lifespan changes in brain development and ageing fr...
Dr Giacomo Bignardi I'm a developmental scientist working in the The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore) Group.
I'm broadly interested in how the environment influences the brain, behaviour and cognition, and in adolescent health. I'm also ...
Timothy Birkle Within the lab of Prof. Guy Brown, I investigate druggable targets within microglial cells which may be useful for tackling neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. In particular, we are interested in targets which modulate inflamma...
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Our research focuses on the development of social cognition, peer influence and decision making in adolescence, and adolescent mental health. We run large scale behavioural studies in schools and in the lab, as well as neuroimaging studies, with a...
Dr Clemence Blouet Impairments in central pathways regulating energy homeostasis can cause profound metabolic dysfunctions, but current knowledge is insufficient to develop safe and efficient therapies targeting these pathways.
Brain metabolic sensing is based on th...
Dorothea Boeken I am interested in using single-molecule techniques to study soluble tau aggregates in tauopathy models, such as iPSC-derived neurons and cerebral organoids. These techniques include TIRF microscopy as well as super-resolution microscopy (dSTORM, ...
Dr Giulia Bonetto Studies of neural circuit plasticity focus almost exclusively on functional and structural changes of neuronal synapses. In recent years, however, myelin plasticity has emerged as a potential modulator of neuronal networks. Indeed, myelination of ...
Dr Daniel Bor My current main research focus is on the effects of drowsiness and conscious level (both measured neurally) on cognition, and how this is modulated by age and disease (Alzheimer's). I am using MEG, fMRI and structural imaging techniques to examine...
Mr Robin Borchert I work with fMRI to investigate how drug treatments, which target the cognitive deficits in Parkinson's Disease, affect network connectivity. This provides a great opportunity to understand and optimize these treatments for patients.
Dr Alexander Boys My work focuses on developing tissue engineered and bioelectronic devices for recording neural signals in the gut. I am specifically interested in the gut-brain axis and the transfer of signals along this axis.
Dr Mirjana Bozic I study language as a cognitive and a neural system. My research focuses on the neural mechanisms that support spoken language comprehension. Using behavioural and neuroimaging techniques, I investigate how different properties of the speech input...
Dr Abbie Bradshaw My research is interested in speech production and perception, and the interactions between these at both the behavioural and the neural level.
I currently hold a Leverhulme Trust Early Career fellowship within Matt Davis’ group for a project en...
Professor Andrea Brand FRS FMedSci Uncovering the molecular mechanisms that control neural stem quiescence and reactivation is crucial for understanding tissue regeneration under normal and pathological conditions and in response to ageing. It is critical to learn not only how stem...
Dr Dennis Bray How do bacteria find distant sources of food, and avoid noxious and potentially damaging environments? We seek answers to these questions by developing computer simulations of swimming bacteria exposed to gradients of different substances. Our pro...
Professor Sarah Bray We are interested in understanding the signalling pathways that co-ordinate the decisions made by cells during development. The ultimate fate of a cell is dictated in part by its heredity and in part through interactions with neighbouring cells. O...
Professor Carol Brayne My research programme is based around longitudinal population based studies of people aged 65 and above, running since 1985. They include collections of blood, and are linked to the Cambridge Brain Bank. Opportunities exist for translation from la...
Dr Emily Breese I am currently researching phenotypic trait differences and their impact on habitual behaviours. Specifically, this research examines individuals differences in responsiveness to environmental cues that predict rewards, using a range of online and...
Mr Jonathan Breiter I focus on the investigation of early-stage aggregates of alpha-synuclein in the human brain, which have been found to be a major contributor to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease and other synucleinopathies. We are working on improving our u...
Dr Jack Brelstaff Ph.D Our work focuses on the cellular and molecular consequences of tau pathology in neuronal cultures. Our primary model is derived from the dorsal root ganglia of mice transgenic for P301S mutant human tau. These ganglia are dissociated and grown in ...
Professor Peter Bright 1. Neuroimaging and neuropsychological investigations of object processing (with an emphasis on the role of medial temporal lobe structures).
2. Disease progression and cognitive decline in semantic dementia.
3. Retrograde amnesia in brain dama...
Professor Kevin Brindle We have developed non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that enable us to track labelled cells that have been implanted in the CNS. This work has been conducted in collaboration with Robin Franklin. In addition we are developi...
Dr Emma Brock My research is focused on creating a map of alpha-synuclein oligomers in the human brain with the aim of improve understanding of the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Large alpha-synuclein aggregates are commonly used as an indicator for Parki...
Paul Brooks My area of research focuses on how the cellular skeleton is formed and maintained.
Fundamentally, microtubules are comprised of just 3 proteins, however, their functions are diverse. During cell division MTs lock onto and pull apart chromosomes, ...
Professor Donald Broom Developing and using methods of evaluating animal welfare.
Behaviour development, social behaviour, abnormal behaviour.
Assessing cognitive ability in domestic animals including cattle, pigs, sheep and dogs.
Sentience, awareness, emotions, feeling...
Professor Guy Brown We are interested in the mechanisms of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the brain. We use mouse models of disease and cultured brain cells to investigate how microglia become activated by inflammatory stimuli and how such microglia dama...
Dr Stephanie Brown I am interested in studying the degenerative brain changes in people with Down’s syndrome using sophisticated brain scanning techniques. Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allow high resolution images of the brain using 7 Tesla MR...
Dr Will Brown The Brown Group focuses on reducing disability in multiple sclerosis, one of the most common causes of disability in the young. We use real-world data to optimise the use of existing disease-modifying therapies and to explore novel repair strategi...
Dr Lizzie Buchanan-Worster I am interested in how children perceive spoken language and how this relates to language and literacy development. I completed my PhD at UCL in 2019, supervised by Professor Mairéad MacSweeney and Professor Charles Hulme. My PhD research focussed o...
Dr Clare Buckley The vertebrate brain arises from a tube-like structure made from polarised neuroepithelial cells. These have a strict apico-basal orientation; they align their apical ends along a centrally located lumen. This organisation is important for later n...
Dr Raymond Bujdoso Prion diseases such as scrapie of sheep and goats, BSE of cattle and CJD of humans are transmissible neurodegenerative diseases. The research of our prion group is concerned with providing knowledge to try and answer some of the important question...
Miss Sophie Buller Our group studies hypothalamic nutrient sensing and its role in the regulation of energy balance.
Professor Ed Bullmore I am interested in understanding human brain network organization from neuroimaging data in health and disease. My recent methodological work has focused on graph theory to measure aspects of brain network topology.
I am also interested in bette...
Dr Simon Bullock Our primary goal is to understand how cellular components are sorted and dispersed by microtubule-based motor complexes, and how these transport processes contribute to the functions of cells in situ (i.e. within organisms). We have long-standing ...
Dr David Bulmer Abdominal pain is a leading cause of morbidity in gastrointestinal disease. Despite this we still know little of how pain is triggered in “functional” gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and gastrointestinal diseases ...
Michael Burkhart Within Zoe Kourtzi's Adaptive Brain Lab, I study the application of machine learning techniques to improve the early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease, specifically Alzheimer's. Previously, I worked with the BrainGate project to develop Bayes...
Professor Malcolm Burrows I work on the properties of neurons and the circuits they form to understand how they control behaviour.
1. Motor control. How do nonspiking local interneurons organise motor neurons to generate limb movements? How do spiking interneurons proce...
Dr Folma Buss We study the cellular roles of myosin motor proteins and how they mediate the organization of cellular compartments and control intracellular transport along actin filaments. One of our major aims is to understand the mechanism of cargo selection ...
Simon Butler Puberty is associated with a period of psychological change concomitant with structural changes in the brain. An endocrinological association has been proposed. In the context of education, the effects on executive function, particularly the socia...
Miss Emilia Butters My work focuses on applying optical neuroimaging (near-infrared spectroscopy and high-density diffuse optical tomography) in dementia with the ultimate goal of developing biomarkers for use in the clinic, as well as to explore brain oxygenation an...
Dr Paula Buttery The application of natural language engineering techniques to augment neuro-imaging analysis and experimental design.
Dr Philip Buttery We work on the role of rho family GTPases and their regulators in the plasticity of CNS synapses, as related to brain disease and recovery from brain injury. We are currently focussing on a regulator of the GTPase Rac1 which is upregulated with n...
Dr Emma Cahill My immediate objective is to develop my research in neuronal signalling complexes and apply what I find to unanswered fundamental questions related to memory and adaptive behaviour. In my research, I address the signalling requirements of memories...
Olivier Cahn Endogenous GLP-1 plays an important biological role in regulating metabolism and agonists that target the GLP-1 receptor have been recently approved as treatment of obesity.
Studies in mice have shown that activation of hypothalamic pro-opiomelan...
Dr Lupei Cai My main research project is to investigate the relationship between systemic inflammation and cerebral small vessel disease.
Marta Camacho I am involved in cohort studies (PICNICS, ICICLE-PD, Proband) which are observational studies tracking the progression of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) over several years so that we can better understand how the disease behaves over time....
Dr Andres Canales-Johnson I investigate the brain dynamics of several ‘internally generated’ conscious phenomena such as perceptual ambiguity, mental imagery, learning during sleep, hypnotic hallucinations, visceral consciousness, and the brain dynamics of vegetative patie...
Dr Rudolf Cardinal Clinical informatics (including data capture and the proper use and analysis of routinely collected NHS data); computational psychiatry (including computational models of mind and behaviour); behavioural/cognitive neuroscience; liaison psychiatry.
Professor Albert Cardona To study the relationship between circuit structure and function, we must know the synaptic connectivity that defines the circuit structure, observe the activity of the neurons in the circuit over time, study how the pattern of activity can change...
Dr Bob Carlyon My research has spanned a wide range of topics in human hearing, but has most recently focused on the problem of how we can listen to one voice in the presence of interfering sounds, such as other speakers. It incorporates behavioural and electrop...
Dr Alejandro Carnicer-Lombarte Implantable neural interfaces allow for the formation of connections between the nervous system and external devices. Whether by recording the electrical activity of neurons, or influencing it through electrical stimulation, these devices and hold...
Ms Sofia Carozza I am interested in how different forms of early-life adversity affect child neurodevelopment, and potential sources of resilience.
Dr Adrian Carpenter Our group develops new techniques for the acquisition and analysis of PET and MR images to improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of disease. We also develop novel instrumentation, for example we are an internationally leading centre d...
Dr Keri Carpenter Research on human brain chemistry, in brain injury and brain tumour patients. Brain injury is a major cause of disability and death. While some brain injury survivors have good outcomes, others experience varying degrees of disability, which are o...
Dr Stephen F. Carter PhD As a cognitive neuroscientist my principal research interest is understanding the pathological cascade of Alzheimer’s disease in humans primarily with PET biomarkers of amyloid and tau. My research uses techniques that include high-resolution neur...
Professor Bhismadev Chakrabarti My research group is based at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics at the University of Reading. We study emotion perception, empathy, and autism using functional MRI, eye gaze tracking, and psychophysiology. I am happy to co...
Dr Lucy Cheke My research concerns the mechanism by which the brain creates, maintains and manipulates representations of events that are not currently available to perception. These representations can take many forms: they can be memories of veridical past ev...
Dr Benson Chen I work in the intersection between neurology and ophthalmology. My PhD research focuses on inherited/mitochondrial optic neuropathies and the experiences of individuals affected by these rare forms of degenerative blindness. Through the Cambridge ...
Dr Cortina Chen My research has focused on stress as a mechanism for increasing nitric oxide production which has been implicated in the aetiology of stress-related and other neuropathological conditions. I then joined the Neuroinflammation Laboratory at The Univ...
Miss Tanatswa Amanda Chikaura My research interests lie primarily in cognitive neuroscience. I am interested in the underlying mechanisms of mental illness, as well as neurodegenerative diseases, paying particular attention to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. My MPhil proje...
Professor Patrick Chinnery FRCP FMedSci I am interested in the genetic basis of neurological disorders, and particularly mitochondrial diseases.
Mitochondria are the main source of energy within neurons and glia. Mutations in genes responsible for mitochondrial biogenesis are a major c...
Mr Bernard Cho My PhD project focuses on unravelling the genetics of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD). Whilst contributing to the 100,000 Genome Project, it aims to integrate genomic analysis and clinical data to assess the downstream implications of genotype...
Dr Leonidas Chouliaras My research interests include the role of epigenetic mechanisms in neurodegeneration, and particularly in Lewy Body Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment.
My projects focus on genome-wide profiling of DNA methylation and hydr...
Dr Isabel Clare I work in the Cambridge Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Group in the Dept. of Psychiatry and as a a senior member of the Enduring Disability and/or Disadvantage clinical theme in the NIHR's CLAHRC East of England. My research in...
Dr Alex Clarke How does the brain make sense of the world? We can recognise tens of thousands of objects, but despite this vast number, our recognition is remarkably quick and accurate, completed within a few hundred milliseconds. My research ask what are the ne...
Dr Hannah Clarke Understanding the neural and neurochemical basis of behaviours mediated by the prefrontal cortex and their relevance to psychiatric disorders.
Dr Jonathan Clarke Discovery and development of compounds that are beneficial to the treatment of neurodegenerative disease
Professor Nicky Clayton, FRS Nicky studies the development and evolution of cognition in members of the crow family (including jackdaws, rooks and jays) and humans. Her work has challenged many of the common-held assumptions that only humans can plan for the future and remini...
Mrs Gemma Cockcroft Research Assistant in a unit that studies various forms of cognitive and behavioural neuroscience
Professor Michael Coleman We study axon degeneration and its roles in neurodegenerative disease. One focus is proteins regulating the degeneration of injured axons (‘Wallerian degeneration'), which we have linked into a molecular pathway. Disease models involving similar m...
Professor Alasdair Coles We study people with immunological illnesses of the brain, especially multiple sclerosis.
Our most important work to date has been on alemtuzumab (Campath-1H), a humanised monoclonal antibody made originally in Cambridge. We started using it to t...
Dr Jonathan Coles As a clinician specialising within Neurointensive care my research interests are focused on describing the pathophysiology of head injury and optimising patient outcome. Using the combined facilities of the Wolfson Brain Imaging and Neurosciences ...
Dr Tony Coll My current research continues to focus upon the roles of the hypothalamus in the control of energy balance. Our current understanding of the central control of appetite has relied heavily upon mouse models and I continue to utilise the power of b...
Professor William Colledge My research group is interested in the neuroendocrine regulation of mammalian fertility using transgenic mice as a model system. Puberty and the regulation of mammalian fertility is controlled by hormonal signalling within the hypothalamus. My re...
Professor Alastair Compston My research interests focus on clinical and experimental demyelinating disease with an emphasis on multiple sclerosis - the commonest potentially disabling disease of young adults. The research group has a broad set of interests: we work on the a...
Dr Geoffrey Cook My research concerns the mechanisms controlling axon growth.
In the laboratory we are investigating two axon-repulsive systems, 1) the characterization of somite glycoproteins that repel axons, creating the segmented pattern of spinal nerves durin...
Dr William Cook MBChB, BMedSc(Hons) Clinical trials in meningioma, inflammatory basis of tumour-related seizures, and quality of life studies.
Dr Thomas Cope MClinRes MRCP(Neurology) PhD I am a consultant neurologist, with clinical interests in cognition and epilepsy.
I am particularly interested how the mind works, how we perceive the world, and how this goes wrong in patients with neurological pathology. My research examines ...
Dr Marta Costa I am the Project Team Leader for the Drosophila Connectomics group, started in October 2016, aims to build the adult olfactory connectome of Drosophila. That is, to describe every neuron that is involved in olfactory behaviour, and its connection...
Dr Amy Courtney My research takes advantage of unique animals and their evolutionary innovations to understand fundamental principles of nervous systems.. During my PhD I worked with the ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus and now during my Postdoc I am working with ...
Dr Lesley Cousins MRCP DPhil. I am interested in the effects of antidepressant medication on the teenage brain both in terms of structural and functional development. I am also interested in trying to understand why some depressed teenagers are prescribed antidepressants where...
Professor Andrew Crawford I am interested in biophysics and physiology of the vertebrate inner ear , especially the cochlea. My research has focussed on the electrophysiology of cochlear hair cells with a view to understanding how they manage to respond to nanometre dis...
Dr Sarah Crisp My goal is to advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying neurological diseases associated with autoantibodies. These diseases include forms of encephalitis, epilepsy, demyelination, movement disorders and peripheral neuropathies amongs...
Dr Hannah Critchlow Hannah is an internationally-acclaimed neuroscientist with a background in neuropsychiatry. Best known for demystifying the human brain on regular radio, TV and festival platforms.
She regularly appears on the BBC TV and Radio, most recently as ...
Professor Ian Cross I am now Emeritus Profesor of Music & Science. My research explores the biological and cultural bases for human musicality, in particular, the mechanisms the human capacity for affiliative communicative interaction in music and in speech. This in...
Mr Jan Cross-Zamirski I am interested in applying artificial intelligence to neuroimaging (and other biological) data in a way which uses state of the art machine learning techniques on large, longitudinal data sets while retaining maximum interpretability, predictive...
Dr Nick Cunniffe I am an Academic Clinical Lecturer in Neurology. My research is centred on the different ways of promoting and measuring remyelination in people living with multiple sclerosis; it is anticipated that through enhancing remyelination of damaged nerv...
Annabel Curle Neuroimmunology in Parkinson's disease
Dr Thomas Cushion My research focuses on the tubulinopathies, a spectrum of severe neurological disorders caused by mutations in tubulin genes. To investigate the mechanisms of disease, I am using tubulinopathy patient-derived stem cells to generate 2D neuronal cul...
Professor Marek Czosnyka Brain Physics summarizes physical interactions between volumes, flows and pressures in brain. Measurement, data processing and analysis, forecasting and modeling of various cerebral phenomena as autoregulation of CBF or pressure-volume compensatio...
Dr Zofia Czosnyka Disturbance in cerebrospinal fluid circulation is one, but probably not the only reason for developing hydrocephalus. Physical models of CSF compensation may be identified in clinical practice. I provide a clinical service for the Hydrocephalus Cl...
Dr Tim Dalgleish I am broadly interested in affective neuroscience in relation to clinical depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I am particularly interested in mental control and emotion regulation in these conditions and the psychological and neu...
Professor Jeff Dalley Primary research interests include behavioural and cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology and neuromodulation of limbic cortico-striatal brain circuitry. Specific interests include behavioural and neurobiological endophenotypes and their trans...
Miss Tamana Darwish Feeding behaviour and metabolic state are regulated by many factors- one of the them being nutrient intake. I am interested in how the body responds physiologically the intake of nutrients, in particular to amino acids, which are known to promote ...
Professor Anthony Davenport Our research group focuses on understanding the role of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs, targets for about ~50% of current drugs) together with their transmitters in humans. We use in vitro pharmacology, to determine how these are altered with ...
Dr Greg Davis Visual attention, Visual search, Unconscious processing, Security Applications, Autism
Dr Matt Davis My work is interdisciplinary, combining diverse methodologies from Cognitive Neuroscience to investigate the neural mechanisms involved in spoken and written language comprehension. I work on a range of topics, including speech perception, lexical...
Dr Daniel De Haan I am a postdoctoral research associate in the TWCF Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Sciences Project: Neuroscience Strand, Faculty of Divinity, and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Cambridge Unive...
Dr Daniel de Malmazet I’m studying how neurons in the superior colliculus control visual guided behaviour.
Dr Héloïse de Vareilles I am investigating the links between brain folding pattern and schizophrenia using anatomical MRI. I am also assessing genetic causes of variable cortical folding.
Dr Naomi Deakin MB BChir MA (Cantab) Dr Deakin is a PhD student in Clinical Neurosciences, co-supervised by Prof Peter Hutchinson (Neurosurgery) and Prof John Suckling (Psychiatry). Dr Deakin completed her medical training in Cambridge, followed by the Academic Foundation Programme i...
Dr Andrew Dean Interest in: i) Genetically-determined and developmentally acquired disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system and muscle, encompassing neuropathy, myopathy, dystrophy, neuropathy, malformation, epilepsy and mental retardation; ii) st...
Dr Janet Deane We study the role of lipid processing pathways in demyelinating neurodegenerative disease. We are interested in how the composition of cellular membranes is maintained and what the effects are when this composition is altered. Lipids and proteins ...
Mr Richard Dear I am a PhD student at the Brain Mapping Unit supervised by Petra Vertes and Ed Bullmore. I'm interested in using computational techniques to understand the neurobiology of mental health, with a particular focus on revealing the underlying biologic...
Dr Laura Dearden I am a post-doctoral research associate in Professor Sue Ozanne’s lab in the Institute of Metabolic Science. The Ozanne lab is interested in understanding how exposure to maternal obesity programs an increased risk of cardio-metabolic disease in o...
Ms Nadene Dermody Despite the wealth of information available to us at any one time, we are able to navigate through these sensory-laden environments in a purposeful way. How do our brains select what is relevant to our current goal, direct our behaviour accordingl...
Professor Anthony Dickinson My primary research interests concern learning, memory, motivation, and future planning in both humans and animals. My interest in learning and memory is focussed on the distinction between goal-directed and habitual instrumental behaviour as asse...
Dr Andrea Dimitracopoulos After training as a Biomedical Engineer at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Andrea started his PhD in Theoretical Physics and Cell Biology at University College London, on the CoMPLEX programme. Under the supervision of Buzz Baum,...
Dr Eleni Dimou Tau is a soluble protein interacting with tubulin to stabilize microtubules. Under pathological conditions, it becomes hyperphosphorylated and adopts a filamentous conformation with a pivotal role in Alzheimer’s Disease pathogenesis. Although tau ...
Miss Lena Dorfschmidt I am interested in the principles of whole-brain network organization in health and disease. I work on resting state MRI data in order to model trajectories of adolescent cortical development and identify disruptions in functional connectomics dur...
Maria-Eleni Dounavi I am a Research Associate at the department of Psychiatry (Old Age Psychiatry research group).
My research is focused on multi-modal MR brain imaging and utilisation of state-of-the-art image processing tools to investigate early changes occurrin...
Miss Rebecca Dowden MSci (Hons) I work in the Stroke Research Group, Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. My role includes the coordination and monitoring of the DNA Lacunar 2 study that investigates the genetics of lacunar stroke.
Mr Connor Doyle I have previously worked on the relationship between physiological and behavioural indices of negative affective bias and motivational anhedonia in non-human primates.
Dr Ichrak DRISSI I'm a neuroscientist at Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge. My research interests aim to understand genetic alterations underlying painlessness and excess pain disorders. By analysing DNA from patients sufferi...
Dr Robert Dudas I have carried out research projects on cognitive impairment in the context of progressive-degenerative dementias and affective symptomatology. My current interest in dementia spans from risk factors to clinical management.
I have also investiga...
Mr Jasdip Singh Dulai My research is orientated towards the more commonly observed nociceptive pain pathway, with a specific interest in inflammation. Using both in silico screening (docking models) and in vitro (electrophysiology) to validate findings.
The overall ai...
Professor John Duncan Brain basis for attention, intelligence and cognitive control; including studies of normal cognition and behaviour, impairments following brain damage, functional brain imaging, and single cell electrophysiology.
For John Duncan's popular science...
Mr Jacob Dundee My project is to understand the role of microglia in development, tauopathy, and ageing. As a person get older, microglia have been found to ‘eat’ synapses of stressed but still functional neurons, possibly driving the disease progression of many ...
Alex Dunn
I'm a PhD student studying the development of cellular-scale brain networks in vitro. I grow primary murine neuronal cultures and record spontaneous activity on microelectrode arrays (MEAs). I also analyse MEA recordings of stem-cell-derived huma...
Miss Carolina Duro Doctorate Project exploring the topic: Role of MAST3 in neurodevelopment and disease.
Project aims:
1) Generate novel mouse models that recapitulate disease-causing mutations presented in human patients;
(2) Phenotypical, behavioral, and anatomic...
Miss Josefine Eck I am currently an MPhil student at the University of Cambridge studying basic and translational neuroscience. I am intrigued by the complexity of neurological dysfunctions and the consequences when individuals lose certain parts of the brain. I am...
Dr Steve Edgley I’m interested in how movements are controlled. Our everyday movements are performed with little conscious thought and are remarkably precise. Despite what the textbooks tell you, the way in which this is accomplished is poorly understood. I work ...
Dr Stephen Eglen I use computational tools to help investigate mechanisms of neural development.
In particular, I study the formation of retinotopic maps and retinal mosaics in vertebrate visual systems. In addition, I am interested in the analysis of large-scale...
Professor Michelle Ellefson Michelle Ellefson is a Professor of Cognitive Science in the Faculty of Education. Her work integrates cognition, neuroscience, child development, and education into a multi-disciplinary research programme aimed at improving maths and science educ...
Elizabeth English My PhD project will analyse Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) brain samples across the disease stages, compared to equivalent healthy brain samples. I will be looking to characterise amyloid-beta, tau, and alpha-synuclein aggregates, in terms of aggregate ...
Chaitanya Erady Transcriptomic analysis of an inflamed subgroup of major depressive disorder (MDD) patients.
Professor Karen Ersche My research focuses on the neuropsychological correlates and neurochemical processes underlying addictive behaviour and the translation of this knowledge into therapeutic interventions. This work involves a combination of approaches including neur...
Dr Claire Eschbach In insect, the mushroom body (MB) is a brain region where memory traces are formed. Recently, EM-based reconstruction of all the input and output neurons of this structure unravelled both the highly recurrent innervation of the MB and its connecti...
Dr Felippe Espinelli Amorim My research interests comprise behavioral neuroscience and computational neuroscience. Currently, I study phenotypical characteristics of obssesive-compulsive disorder using translationally relevant animal models. For that, I am using different te...
Dr Richard Eva Repair and protection of the injured or diseased central nervous system. My research focuses on the subcellular signalling and trafficking mechanisms that control axon regeneration and neuroprotection in the brain, spinal cord and optic nerve. Thi...
Dr Mark Evans My group are interested in (1) how brain detects changes in blood glucose and how this glucose-sensing interacts with peripheral metabolism; (2) how defences against hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) may become abnormal in diabetes; (3) the short an...
Dr Nicholas Evans I am a Specialist Registrar in Stroke Medicine with a research interest in atherosclerosis and vascular inflammation. My current research uses Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to measure inflammation within t...
Professor Barry Everitt Sc.D., F.R.S., F.Med.Sci. My research is concerned with the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying learning, memory, motivation and reward especially related to drug addiction. A major research theme is the impact of learning on drug addiction - both its developmen...
Miss Seyedeh-Rezvan Farahibozorg My current research is aimed at characterisation of semantic networks in the brain based on source reconstructed concurrent Electro-/Magnetoencephalography (E/MEG)).
Multiple brain areas are thought to play role in semantic cognition. However, th...
Luisa Fassi I am a MRC-DTP PhD student working at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Department of Psychiatry. My research uses a mixed-method approach to map the relationship between social media use and youth’s mental health. Specifically, I...
Professor James Fawcett Axon regeneration in the damaged CNS: Regeneration of axons after CNS damage is blocked by several molecules in the environment and by loss of intrinsic regeneration ability, We modify the environment to make it more permissive and modify axonal ...
Dr Shaline Fazal Research into the role of peripheral immune cells in Huntington's disease. A particular focus is on the possible influence that these peripheral immune cells may have on the seeding and propagation of mutant Huntingtin between cells. A patient and...
Ms Georgia Feltham Our research has previously found developmental links between children’s awareness of rhythm in speech and their progress in reading. The Botnar project is testing the efficacy of educational interventions based on this research, including a poetr...
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic mechanism causing genes to be expressed depending on their parental origin. Our research investigates the mechanism and evolution of genomic imprinting and the function of imprinted genes in development and dise...
Dr Hugo Fernandes I am interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal cell loss in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. In particular, we are exploring the role of oxidative stress and ER stress in human (iPSC-derived) dopamine neurons us...
Rocio Fernandez Mendez I am currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. I am involved in a number of projects within the Outcome Registry Intervention and Operation Network (ORION) and I am also the research lead of the O...
Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea My research interests are mostly the biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia. I’m the Clozapine Clinic Lead for the local MH Trust (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust). We study treatment resistant schizophrenia ...
Dr Andre Ferreira Castro So far my research has been driven by a deep fascination for the shape–function relationship in neuroscience. I have been particularly interested in understanding how different neuronal structural patterns provide the background for complex manip...
Mr Emre Fertan I have a background in behavioural neuroscience, during which I studied the behavioural and neuropathological changes in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. My current work focuses on characterising cellular (iPSC and organoid systems), synaptoso...
Johanna J. S. Finnemann My primary research interests concern sensorimotor integration and somatosensation which I investigate from a computational as well as experimental point of view. In particular I aim to understand how optimal control, predictive processes, motor l...
Dr Sheila Flanagan The possibility that shared neural mechanisms for processing language and music exist is an area of increasing interest. Anecdotal evidence that musical exposure or training leads to improvements in literacy and working memory is now gaining supp...
Professor Paul Fletcher I am interested in psychosis. I agree with the long tradition of clinical psychiatric research which suggests that, during a psychotic illness, the world is a strange place because strange associations are formed and inconsequential stimuli are as...
Professor Thanasis Fokas PhD-MD Analytical algorithms for several medical imaging techniques including PAT, SPECT, MEG, EEG.
Dr Tamsin Ford CBE My research focuses on interventions and services to optimize the mental health of children and young people. Both mental health and services are interpreted broadly to include wellbeing as well as distress rather than children exceeding somewhat ...
Mrs Elizabeth Fordham I am considering the concept of re-birth at adolescence and the impact that this may have on pupil wellbeing. My study is an EdDoc and therefore I am considering how I can combine the work I do with adolescents as a counsellor in private practice,...
Dr Suzanna Forwood My interest is in cortical learning, and particularly the interaction between learning and perception. Previous work has used animal models and computational models to understand cortical function. I am now looking at human models of learning, w...
Mr Maxime Fouyssac My research project in David Belin’s lab at the department of Pharmacology and within the BCNI of Cambridge is to characterize the functional contribution of the astrocytes to the development of habitual and compulsive cocaine self-administration ...
Professor Robin Franklin FMedSci, FRS Robin Franklin is a Principal Investigator at Altos Las - Cambridge Institute having previously been Professor of Stem Cell Medicine at the Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. His lab works on the mechanisms of CNS regeneration with ...
Kristian Franze We are taking an interdisciplinary approach to investigate how cellular forces, local cell and tissue stiffness and cellular mechanosensitivity contribute to CNS development and disease. Methods we are exploiting include atomic force microscopy, t...
Professor Paul Freeman Dip ECVN The role of calcification in intervertebral disc herniation is poorly understood. We are shedding new light on this process through use of Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance, with the g...
Ms Jessica Fritz My main research interest is the study of resilience in individuals who have experienced childhood adversity. Resilience can be described as a process of positive adaptation following exposure to childhood adversity. Childhood adversity is strongl...
Dr Tim Fryer My research concentrates on positron emission tomography (PET) methodology, with particular emphasis on the quantitative accuracy of the physiological parameters derived from the data.
Current research themes are:
parametric mapping using b...
Dr Tanja Fuchsberger The main focus of my research is to investigate mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in health and disease. In my current postdoctoral project, I study molecular mechanisms that affect synaptic changes induced by spike-timing-dependent plasticity in ...
Mrs Fiona Gabrielczyk I am a Research Assistant at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, working on the 'Listening to Rhythm in Children' project (Developing Prototype Assistive Listening Technology for Remediating Developmental Dyslexia). The purpose of the study ...
Ms Sana Gadiwalla Role of Mitf in neuronal plasticity of mitral and tufted cells in the olfactory bulb.
Dr Julieta Galante I am a full-time researcher with a background in public health medicine. My research interests lie on mental health promotion and the effects of lifestyle on health. My main focus has been studying the effects of meditation on mental health, which...
Dr Dana Galili Did you ever wonder what makes males and females respond differently to the same stimulus? Sex differences are basic for reproduction, parenting and other social interactions. I work on Drosophila sexually dimorphic behaviours and their underlying...
Dr Liliana Galindo MD PhD I am a psychiatrist; my PhD was in neuroimaging in psychosis (UAB). I am a Professor Ad Honorem of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Colombia. I am interested in translational research in psychiatry, especially in psychosis, and in novel psy...
Dr Elisa Galliano The ability of nerve cells to plastically modify themselves is one of the characteristics that make the brain millions of times more powerful and capable of learning than any supercomputer. I am particularly interested in the ways in which, during...
Mr Stephen Gamble I have recently retired from the Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation (CASM) team at the Sanger Institute.
Previously I have worked for the MRC on the biological basis of mental illness using neurobiology, biochemistry and computing. I am also ...
Charlotte Garcia My PhD research has been focused on developing and validating a diagnostic tool called the Panoramic ECAP (PECAP) method that uses various electrophysiological measurements of neural responsiveness through cochlear implants (these are called Elect...
Dr Lorna Garcia Penton In my current Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, I aim to map the interface between the semantic representational and control networks by estimating the dynamical causal networks (DCNs) underlying on-going resting-state fMRI. This also includes d...
Jane Garrison Investigating reality testing failures in hallucinations, including in schizophrenia
Professor Susan Gathercole I am a cognitive psychologist with interests in memory, learning and language. Until 2018 I was the Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) in Cambridge and am now based in Developmental Psychiatry. One strand of my research in...
Deniz Ghaffari The chronic presence of cell injury and damage in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) leads to glial activation and increased production of inflammatory cytokines, which in turn lead to further neuronal damage (Morales I. et al., 2014). Recent Genome wide-as...
Professor Zoubin Ghahramani My current research interests include Bayesian approaches to machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, information retrieval, bioinformatics, and computational motor control. Statistics provides the mathematical foundations for handli...
George Gibbons I am currently a Research Associate working on developing novel human stem cell derived organoid models to explore disease, injury, and development.
Using this platform, I hope to further elucidate novel human specific mechanisms and validate pre...
Dr Jenny Gibson Jenny’s research interests lie in the interplay between linguistic and social development from childhood through to adolescence. She studied at University of Manchester where she gained a BSc (Hons) in Speech and Language Therapy, before going on ...
Dr Jonathan Gilley My principle research area is investigation of the molecular mechanisms involved in axon degeneration after injury and in disease.
Professor Dino Giussani We have intertwined our interests in oxygen and the development of the central nervous and cardiovascular systems to propose that oxidative stress underlies the common molecular pathway via which prenatal hypoxia contributes to a developmental ori...
Dr Brian Glasberg My research focuses on the perception of sound in both normally hearing and hearing-impaired people and relates to the psychophysics of hearing.
Dr Dervila Glynn Following on from a degree in Biotechnology, I completed a PhD in Pharmacology (Downing College) and worked for 11 years in the field of Huntington’s disease (HD). My research focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration an...
Dr Hedwig Gockel My research has covered various aspects of human hearing, mostly in healthy individuals. Amongst them are pitch perception, auditory grouping and streaming processes, effects of attention on auditory perception, loudness perception and masking. I...
Dr Michel Goedert Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are characterized by the presence of abnormal filamentous assemblies within some nerve cells. Similar assemblies are found in related disorders, including progressive supranuclear palsy, dementia with Le...
Dr Tobias Goehring My focus lies on improving the perception of speech for people with hearing loss in everyday life, especially in difficult listening situations with interfering background sounds. I combine techniques from Engineering, Auditory Neuroscience and Ma...
Professor Ian Goodyer FMedSci I am a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based at Cambridge University pursuing research into the connections between human development and psychopathology. My studies are centred on adolescents in the community as well as current patients. Our re...
Professor Juan Manuel Gorriz The SIPBA group use computational and mathematical approaches based on the statistical learning theory to develop computer-aided diagnosis systems in the field of neuroscience. SiPBA aim to provide supporting tools to physicians in the early diagn...
Professor Usha Goswami I am the Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education. The Centre uses EEG and fNIRS to explore the developing brain. Key research projects include the neural basis of developmental dyslexia, the neural basis of speech and language impairm...
Dr Stacey Anne Gould I am currently exploring ways to target programmed axon death for therapeutic effect. I study the role of SARM1 activation after a range of physical and neurotoxic triggers, and how subsequent axon degeneration can be prevented using compounds wit...
Dr Julia Greenland I am interested in the role of the immune system in the progression of Parkinson's disease. Together with Dr Williams-Gray, I am running a clinical trial of azathioprine, an immunosuppressant medication, to try to slow down the progression of PD.
Dr Ingo Greger Information transfer in the brain occurs at synapses where chemical transmitters are released from presynaptic terminals and are received by postsynaptic receptors. Glutamate is a major neurotransmitter and glutamate receptors are key to synaptic ...
Dr Andrea Greve I am an Investigator Scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. My research focuses on investigating theories of learning by using behavioral and functional brain imaging techniques (MRI and EEG/MEG) with the aim to understand the cog...
Professor Fiona Gribble Endocrine communication between the gut and brain, relaying food-related signals that control appetite and metabolism.
Miss Alex Griffin Research assistant working with Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, looking at adolescent cognitive and social development. Particular personal interest in neurodiversity, particularly autism, and how it impacts adolescent cognitive development.
Dr Jules Griffin We have been using a range of analytical techniques, and in particular NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, to follow metabolism in the brain in a range of disease processes. This ranges from flux measurements to understand the cycling of metab...
Ms Juliet Griffin I study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the formation and stubborn persistence of delusions and other psychotic symptoms in psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia. I am interested in how the brain uses uncertain information (parti...
Mrs YUANJUN GU My research primarily studies the genetic origin of sex differences and heterogeneity presented in neurodevelopmental conditions, such as Autism.
Mr Lukas Gunschera My primary research interests surround human learning and habitual behaviour. Current projects examine formal computational modelling approaches to social media use, the role of automatic behaviour in social media use, and cognitive correlates of ...
Chutian Guo My PhD project aims to look at the genetic relationship of sleep and circadian rhythmicity with cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) using bioinformatical approaches. This is interesting since abnormal sleeping patterns may be associated with glym...
Dr Dingrong Guo How do we remember things? New memories are not encoded on a tabula rasa. When new information is relevant to prior knowledge or schema, it can be learned and remembered better.
There are some exciting findings of the schema effect in rodent stud...
Panyuan Guo I work with Dr Lucy Cheke in the Cognition and Motivated Behaviour Lab. I’m interested in exploring the factors that affect episodic memory development in children. While previous research has concentrated on the emergence of episodic memory in th...
Dr Mark Gurnell Current programmes of research:
1. endocrine basis of financial decision-making
2. genetic and acquired disorders of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis
3. novel approaches to sparing hypothalamic-pituitary function in patients with sellar/par...
Dr Kshipra Gurunandan My work focuses on the brain bases of learning and memory processes, especially as they relate to complex functions such as language, and how these change over the lifespan. I'm interested in experience-dependent brain plasticity, i.e. what become...
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...
Dr Fumiya Iida Our research interests lie at the biologically inspired robotics, i.e. the cross section between biology and robotics: We are interested in extracting design principles of nature and extend them for improving our robotics technologies.
Dr James Ingram My research focuses on understanding the sensorimotor control of the arm and hand in humans. I am especially interested in object manipulation and tool use. Object manipulation and tool use is an essential feature of human behaviour. It represents...
Rosana-Bristena Ionescu MD I am an MD, currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, with the support of the Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership (MRC-DTP) and the Cambridge Trust.
My research is centred on using induced neural ste...
Dr Tony Jackson In neurones, voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels initiate the action potential. Sodium channels consist of a ~ 250 kDa alpha-subunit and ~40 kDa beta-subunits. The beta-subunits modulate channel gating. The Nav beta-subunits possess an extracellul...
Sridhar rajan Jagannathan The aim of this research is to generate a body of work capable of characterizing the neural and computational dynamics of consciousness during arousal(alertness) transitions. I do this by developing new mathematical tools for the analysis of compl...
Dr Baland Jalal PhD Dr Baland Jalal's research interest is neuropsychiatry, with a focus on how technology (e.g., smartphone apps) and innovative treatments can make psychiatry more transportable and accessible (the theme of his PhD done at Cambridge University - wit...
Dr Ibrahim Jalloh Which fuels are best for the injured brain? Ibrahim is a consultant adult and paediatric neurosurgeon who was awarded a World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Young Neurosurgeon of the Year award in 2017. His research, supported by the MRC, a...
Nazia Jassim I am a Parke-Davis Research Fellow at the Prediction and Learning (PaL) lab. I use experimental psychology, ultra high-resolution 7T neuroimaging, and computational modelling to investigate the neurocomputational basis of sensory learning in adult...
Dr Gregory Jefferis Our broad goal is to understand how smell turns into behaviour in the fruit fly brain. We use a combination of genetic labelling and manipulation, targeted in vivo whole cell patch clamp recording and high resolution neuroanatomy to study olfactor...
Jennifer Wanyi Jia My research is on myelin plasticity during adulthood and how myelin dynamics may be influenced by neuronal plasticity. Oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system produce myelin, which is essential for ensuring fast signal transmission in neuro...
Dr Alexis Joannides We have established a scaleable and clinically compatible system for generating and propagating neural stem cells from human embryonic stem (ES) cells. Using this platform, and building on our work on mouse ES cells demonstrating a correlation of ...
Professor Mark Johnson FBA Johnson has published over 360 papers and 10 books on brain and cognitive development in human infants, children and in other species. His laboratory currently focuses on typical, at-risk and atypical functional brain development in human infants ...
Amy Jolly I am a PhD Student in the Stroke Research Group supervised by Professor Hugh Markus.
My PhD project is investigating cognition and fatigue in genetic and sporadic small vessel disease using both genetics and neuroimaging features.
Emer Jones I’m interested in using artificial neural networks as a modelling framework for the human ventral stream: first developing an additional test-bed of how ‘brain-like’ neural nets are, and then trying to improve their ability to predict neuroimaging...
Dr Joanne Jones We study human autoimmunity; in particular we aim to understand why autoimmunity often occurs during recovery from T cell lymphopenia.
People with multiple sclerosis, treated with the highly effective lymphocyte depleting antibody alemtuzumab off...
Professor Peter Jones The Cambridge “epiCentre” group works at the interface between population-based research, neuroscience and clinical psychiatry in order to understand the causes, mechanisms and treatments for psychosis (particularly schizophrenia) dementia, depres...
Dr Phil Jones We are investigating how normal stem cells transform into cancer cells in a range of sytems, both by studying stem and progenitor cell fate and also by investigating the role of a specific cell fate regulators. Our focus has been on Hes6, which r...
Mr Simon Jones Imaging analysis and study design in Dr James Rowe's Group. Mainly looking at impulsivity in Parkinson's disease, stroke and dementia using structutral MR, PET and fMRI.
Dr Susan Jones The primary focus of our research is the function of AMPA and NMDA glutamate receptors at excitatory synapses in the brain. We study the properties of glutamate receptors, glutamatergic synaptic transmission, and synaptic plasticity. We are intere...
Rosie JonesJennings I am studying the creation of empathetic narratives within British Horsemanship. I am interested in how an 'other's' thoughts and feelings are comprehended and experienced in the human brain, how empathy is learned, contextual and partial.
Dr Masa Josipovic It is known that the brain plays an important role in orchestrating homeostatic processes. Our group is specifically interested in how it controls peripheral glucose levels and how this is changed in diabetes. Specialised neurocircuitry in the bra...
Dr Kamila Jozwik Broadly I'm interested in the following questions:
How does the primate brain process visual information?
More specifically - how does the primate brain recognise objects?
What are the underlying computations of visual processing?
I use fMRI, ...
Dr Sanne Kaalund As a neuroscientist I am interested in the microscopic structure of the human brain, in particular how changes in the number of brain cells and cell-to-cell connections relate to altered behaviour and cognitive function in brain illnesses. I study...
Yasmine Kamen I study oligodendrocyte precursor cell membrane properties, ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors. I focus on the temporal and regional diversity in these properties, and how this might underlie the capacity of oligodendrocyte precursors cel...
Professor Clemens Kaminski We develop advanced microscopic imaging techniques that permit us to elucidate molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration.
We use techniques such as lifetime, spectrum and polarisation resolved imaging that inform on protein misfolding, aggregat...
Dr Gabriele Kaminski Schierle Our current research is focused on uncovering the molecular mechanisms that cause proteins to misfold and aggregate in live model systems of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). To enable this work we have developed a range of ad...
Mr Onno Kampman Computational neuroscience, using machine learning approaches to understanding the brain and human behaviour.
Dr Jonathan Kanen I have defended my PhD as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, received the Angharad Dodds John Bursary in Mental Health and Neuropsychiatry to conduct postdoctoral research, and am an MD candidate in the United States.
Much of my work has centred on the n...
Yul Kang I study navigation, learning, and decision-making with computational models and behavioral experiments. I am interested in finding the normative way to solve a computational problem, how neural representation and behavioral performance conforms to...
Melek Karadag I am a dementia researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders. I work on cognitive and neurophysiological changes of Alzheimer's Disease using neuropsychology and E/MEG. I am also interested in improving the ...
Dr Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir My lab’s interests are neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes and their progenitor cells, in both health and disease.
Oligodendrocytes produce myelin (in the CNS), which speeds the propagation of the action potential. When the myelin s...
Dr Muzaffer Kaser I am a psychiatrist interested in brain substrates of cognitive impairments associated with psychiatric disorders, I investigate the mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction in depression and potential treatments.
Dr Taxiarchis Katsinelos The progressive deposition of misfolded hyperphosphorylated tau is a pathological hallmark and it correlates with the disease progression of tauopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease. My research focuses on employing cellular biology and biochemica...
Dr Napoleon Katsos I am interested in how developmental research can inform theoretical linguistic inquiry and vice versa. My particular focus is in the area of semantics and pragmatics, and in language learning by monolingual and bilingual children as well as child...
Dr Laura Katus My main research interest lies in understanding how the early environment shapes the developing brain. I am particularly interested in how early adversity, as is frequently experienced by children in low- and middle-income countries, affects their...
Malak Kawan The development of biocompatible neural interfaces for chronic therapeutic interventions is a long-standing challenge in the field of electronics interfacing with the nervous system. The foreign body reaction triggered upon implantation of foreign...
Dr ILIAS KAZANIS My research focuses on the regulation of adult brain cytogenesis, especilly on the biology of the subependymal zone neurogenic/gliogenic niche. I am interested in the role of components of the extracellular matrix (ECM/ such as integrins, laminins...
Dr David Keays The Keays lab exploits cerebral organoids, 2-photon light microscopy, and in vivo genetic methods to investigate important questions in developmental and sensory neurobiology. We are interested in: (1) How mutations in the tubulin and MAST genes c...
Dr Shekhar Kedia The broad aim of my research is to understand the role of inflammation in Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease through state-of-the-art super resolution microscopy techniques
Nejc Kejzar Our lab aims to understand the underlying mechanism of the hippocampal cognitive map through studying interactions of its basic components: place, grid, border and head direction cells.
To achieve this, we combine the state of the art experimenta...
Mahmoud Keshavarzi My research involves designing paradigms for EEG and MEG experiments, programming them, and analysing the data, as well as testing children using both kinds of brain imaging equipment.
Professor Barry Keverne Professor Keverne has long standing experience in behavioural neuroscience and has, in the past 10 years, brought molecular genetic techniques to focus on brain development and investigate how genetic perturbations of the brain influence brain fun...
Professor Roger Keynes Growth cone repulsion is an important mechanism controlling axon growth. During development it guides axons by excluding them from repulsive regions of the embryo. Following injury to the adult brain it may also block axon regeneration, with major...
Dr Svetlana Khoronenkova Human cells repair thousands of DNA lesions daily. The majority of lesions arise from the intrinsic chemical instability of DNA and include single-strand breaks and base modifications. Unrepaired lesions can obstruct DNA replication, leading to mu...
Dr Rogier Kievit My research focuses on using psychometric models to understand neurodevelopmental changes in executive functions. These cognitive abilities, such as reasoning, problem solving and goal management, develop rapidly during adolescence and often show ...
Monica Killen My PhD is focused on understanding the relationship between metabolic dysfunction and inflammation in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Many TBI patients experience a change in normal brain chemistry, which causes further neurodegeneration and cell de...
Ms Deborah King My research investigates the role that cardiovascular health plays in cognitive ageing. Many cognitive abilities decline with age, although there are marked differences between individuals in the rate and extent of decline. This diversity in agein...
Mr Ollie King Studying novel single-domain antibodies (nanobodies) capable of modulating GABA-A receptors with exquisite subtype selectivity, offering a promising alternative to classical small molecule PAMs like BZD. My research aims to further characterise an...
Miss Emily Kitchener I am interested in the mechanisms of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the brain. I use primary cultured brain cells and cell lines to investigate how microglia become activated by inflammatory stimuli, and how such microglia can damage o...
Dr Manfred Kitzbichler Having a physics background, I am applying general concepts to the analysis of brain activation. This involves both fMRI and MEG, resting state as well as task related data. In particular I am interested in understanding the spatio-temporal dynami...
Professor David Klenerman Small soluble protein aggregates are thought to play a key role in the initial development of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, but are difficult to study using conventional methods due to their low concent...
Gunther Klobe I am interested in human decision-making across the adult lifespan. In particular, I investigate how much we can learn about individual decision-making processes by analysing a person's performance on simple perceptual reaction tasks. Plenty of va...
Professor Tuomas Knowles We work on the physico-chemical properties and behaviour of biological molecules and soft materials. The research in the group is highly interdisciplinary. Members of the group have a wide range of backgrounds. We used methods from biochemistry, c...
Dr Athene Knufer My research investigates the plasticity mechanisms which drive network adjustment during a critical period in the development of the Drosophila larval motor circuit.
Dr Yoo Koung (Y.K.) Ko I am a molecular neuroscientist interested in elucidating molecular and cellular mechanisms behind disorders of brains and translating this understanding to novel therapies. My current research focuses on finding drugs that are beneficial to the t...
Mr Angelos Kolias MD, MSc, PhD, FRCS (SN) Mr Kolias is a Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Neurosurgeon at the University of Cambridge & Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK. His clinical interests include surgery for brain tumours (special interest in skull base/pituitary surgery)...
Dr Anna Korhonen Computational neurolinguistics, the application of natural language processing techniques to aid research in cognitive neuroscience, computational lexical semantics and comceptual structure
Dr Mark Kotter My group is interested in the biology of adult CNS stem and precursor cells in the context of disease. A particular focus lies on mechanisms of CNS remyelination, a stem/precursor cell-mediated process in which new myelin sheaths are restored to d...
Dr Olympia Koulouri Olympia is a Clinical Lecturer in Endocrinology at the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science.
Her PhD studies, under the supervision of Dr Mark Gurnell and Dr Nadia Schoenmakers, focused on central disorders of thyroid function.
She ...
Professor Zoe Kourtzi My work aims to understand the role of learning and experience in enabling humans of all ages to translate sensory experience into complex decisions and adaptive behaviours. Adaptive cognitive abilities are critical for survival and social interac...
Niklas Krick I investigate, how during a critical period towards the end of embryogenesis, fundamental properties of neurons and neuronal circuits are determined, to specify homeostatic setpoints. To address this, I am taking advantage of the well characterise...
Miss Grace Kromm I am a PhD student piloting and leading the Brain Activation in Mother and BabY (BAMBY) study, which uses dual-EEG to characterise neural synchrony between mothers and their healthy or brain-injured newborns as well as the neurological, physiologi...
Mr Marino Krstulovic I am working on developing electrophysiological methods in large animal models of Huntington's disease. My primary methods of interest are EEG and Single Cell Recordings.
Dr Alexandra Krugliak I am interested how the human brain processes natural objects: Are there any, and if so what are the stages of objects processing? How is information from different sensory modalities combined into a multisensory object experience? How and when is...
Dr Dominik Krzemi?ski In my work I use computational methods to reconstruct, annotate, and analyse the synaptic connectivity of individual neurons from electron microscopy volumes of the adult fly brain and ventral nerve cord. The main goal thus far has been to elucida...
Dr Wei-Li Kuan My primary research interest is on investigating novel therapeutics that are potentially disease-modifying in Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. I am also extremely keen in interdisciplinary research and I am currently working with groups of ph...
Dr Markus Kuhn I am a Computer Scientist and one of my many interests include information-theoretic and signal-processing aspects of neural physiology, in models of human perception and learning, and in computer architectures specifically designed to execute bio...
Lilia Kukovska My research focuses on understanding the role of cortical inhibition in visual discrimination. I use optogenetics to activate PV+ interneurons in the primary visual cortex and simultaneously record calcium transients using 2-photon imaging to stu...
Dr Janet Kumita My research group uses a multidisciplinary approach, including biophysics, cell biology and protein engineering, to study the molecular processes underlying protein self-assembly, in particular aberrant amyloid fibril formation related to disorder...
Dr Sebastian Kurten I use large and complex survey data to model the effects of media use on wellbeing.
Dr Meng-Chuan Lai As a clinician scientist, my vision is to bridge and integrate multi-level biological-cognitive-psychological-social research and clinical services. My clinical interests are in the risk and resilience processes across the lifespan in individuals ...
Dr Andras Lakatos My laboratory develops and uses human organoid and other stem cell-based models to explore mechanisms underlying glia-neuron-synapse interactions in development, injury and neurodegenerative disorders, including ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia. We...
Dr Brian Lam Human genetic variations and their effects on energy homeostasis.
Professor Matt Lambon Ralph FBA FMedSci Research programmes:
1. Semantic cognition and its disorders
2. Aphasia
3. Recovery, rehabilitation and neuroplasticity
Our research makes parallel use of multiple methodologies in an attempt to secure convergent insights on the given research to...
Dr Madeline Lancaster Human brain development exhibits a number of unique characteristics, such as dramatic size expansion, unique cell types, and distinct neural stem cell behaviors. These characteristics are difficult to examine in model organisms such as mice and ar...
Dr Matthias Landgraf We seek to understand how neural networks are specified and how they assemble during development. The locomotor network of the Drosophila embryo and larva serves as a powerful experimental model. Composed of identified neurons whose connections ha...
Dr Christelle Langley PhD The effects of serotonin on cognition and functional mechanisms in the brain; Cognitive enhancement through apps in neurological disorders; Cognitive and neural changes in early premanifest Huntingtons disease
Dr Elise Laperrousaz I interest myself in the axonal regeneration, after a spinal cord injury. In this context, I focus on integrins role in the process of axonal regeneration in both in vitro and in vivo models.
Professor Simon Laughlin I am interested in discovering design principles that govern the structure and function of neurons, neural circuits and sense organs. I combine an empirical approach with constraint-based modelling to see how the basic elements of circuits and se...
Dr Janin Lautenschläger I am interested in neurodegenerative diseases, in particular on processes at the synapse. A very recent concept in biology is the finding that synaptic proteins can undergo phase separation, forming condensed droplets in another liquid phase (like...
Ryan Law My current research centres around the how the human brain assembles meaningful parts into more complex linguistic and conceptual structures. A focus of this work would be on better understanding this capacity within relatively natural task design...
Dr Rebecca Lawson We all have expectations about how the how the world should look, feel, smell, taste and sound. These expectations act as predictions to guide us when we are uncertain, and signal when something out of the ordinary is happening.
My work uses com...
Ms Carolina Leal I am interested in how children with cochlear implants process sounds to understand how specific aspects of their auditory processing abilities influence their listening and spoken language outcomes.
Dr Michael Lee Chronic pain is defined simply as pain that persists beyond 3 months, but in reality is a suffering marked by emotional distress and physical disability. For many patients, the extent of disease or injury does not fully account for the severity of...
Professor Máté Lengyel I study learning and memory from computational, algorithmic/representational and neurobiological viewpoints. I also maintain an active interest in the possible computational functions of neural oscillations, particularly those present in the hippo...
Dr Michela Leocadi My research focuses on studying cognitive and fMRI aspects in a cohort of "far-from-onset" individuals with Huntingtion's Disease.
Dr Victoria Leong I am a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who is interested in the interpersonal neural dynamics of mother-infant interactions. Right now, I am studying the phenomenon of oscillatory coupling or synchronisation between mother and infant brains...
Professor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock Dr Lewis-Peacock is passionate about understanding how human memory works. His research uses a combination of behavioural methods, functional neuroimaging, and computational approaches to study how people think, remember, and act. The Lewis-Peacoc...
Dr Chao Li Dr Li is a Senior Research Fellow with expertise in both clinical neuroscience and computation modelling. Dr Li is particularly interested in developing novel machine learning approaches based on imaging and multi-omics data to for personalised ma...
Rui Li In my PhD project, I am applying machine learning techniques to diagnose and predict disease progression in vascular cognitive impairment, as a result of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). I work with both MRI and neuropsychological test data f...
Dr Yuanxi Li Research topics:
1. Cognitive flexibility, cognitive plasticity, learning
2. Novel MRI analysis methods (i.e., gradient analysis)
3. Multimodal data analysis (structural and functional MRI, MRS, gene expression, behaviour, etc.)
4. Applying AI-gu...
Yuqi Li My research interest lies at learning and memory consolidation during sleep. My PhD projects focus on sleep oscillations and how their coordination facilitate memory consolidation during NREM sleep. I use mouse model and conduct behavioural experi...
Colleen Limegrover The aim of my work is to investigate the role of glial cells in traumatic brain injury. Heterogeneity of pathology in patients with TBI creates a complex problem, in terms of modeling the disorder. Secondary injury cascades, including excitotoxici...
Dr Julie Qiaojin Lin I am a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow based at the UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. I am interested in understanding how localised protein synthesis at distal neuronal compartments, particularly axons, contrib...
Dr Pietro Lio' I am a Reader in Computational Biology in the Computer Laboratory which is the department of Computer Science of the University of Cambridge and I am a member of the Artificial Intelligence group of the Computer Laboratory.
I hold a PhD in Comple...
Miss Sulin Liu Small molecule drugs against Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) receptors are crucial pharmacological tools and therapeutics, but limited selectivity between receptor subtypes restricts their usefulness. This project aims to take advantage of the rec...
Brandon Spencer Lockey Mitochondrial DNA accumulates mutations 5-10x faster than nuclear DNA. Brandon is researching methods to reverse Mitochondrial DNA Ageing. Brandon is also President of Cambridge University Longevity Society (2022-2023).
Dr Michael Lombardo I am interested in understanding the mechanisms occurring in early development that are behind atypical brain development in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Ms Maite Lopez My research utilises induced pluripotent stem cells to investigate the mechanisms underlying cerebral small vessel disease.
Andrea Loreto Axon degeneration is an early feature of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma.
I have recently been awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship to work i...
Fiona Love Adult CNS neurons have marked differences in axon transport compared to their peripheral or developing counterparts. As a result, adult CNS axons often lack the molecular machinery needed to survive and recover from injury or disease. I'm invest...
Audrey Low I am a Research Associate studying the role of cerebrovascular dysfunction in dementia and cognitive impairment, with the help of multimodal neuroimaging techniques and clinical data in humans.
Currently, my research focuses on the associations b...
Runhao Lu A distributed "multiple-demand" (MD) network across the frontoparietal brain regions is thought to be crucial for human intelligent behaviours because of its incredible function to flexibly and adaptively process task-relevant information. Althoug...
Professor Sarah Lummis My lab works on Cys-loop receptors, which are one of the major classes of ligand-gated ion channels. The family includes in its vertebrate members 5-HT3, nACh, GABAA, GABAC, and glycine receptors. Proteins from this family are critical for fast sy...
Laura Lungu My research is focused on the neural basis of multisensory integration and how this process is performed at a synaptic level in the Drosophila Larva. In particular, I'm interested in an area responsible for insect navigation, known as the central...
Mr Andrea Luppi Coming from a background in philosophy and cognitive science, I am interested in the relation between mind and (grey) matter. Specifically, my PhD work aims to characterise how the capacity for cognition and consciousness arises from the complex i...
Mary-Ellen Lynall I am a psychiatrist investigating the neuroimmunology of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) with Prof Ed Bullmore and Dr Menna Clatworthy. There is an increasing appreciation that interactions between the immune system and the brain are clinical...
Taylor Lynn-Jones My project studies how brain development during adolescence influences motivation in a non-human primate model, the common marmoset. During adolescence, social and cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, continue to develop. This coincides ...
Miss Annabel MacFarlane Neural landmarks for Developmental Dyslexia through auditory entrainment tasks
Lucy MacGregor My research explores the neurocognitive processes involved in spoken language comprehension, using mainly MEG, EEG and behavioural methodologies.
Alexis MacIntyre I am interested in temporal cognition and how auditory and motor rhythmic processes relate to speech production and perception. I currently work with Dr. Tobias Goehring on a project investigating the neural correlates of speech perception in coch...
Dr Marwa Mahmoud My research interests lie in the field of social signal processing and human behaviour understanding, which includes expressions of emotions or medical conditions. My research draws on computer vision, machine learning, Human Computer Interaction ...
Dr Omar Mahroo MA, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOphth, FHEA I investigate human retinal function in health and disease, using electrophysiology and complementary approaches including retinal imaging, genetic investigation and machine learning.
Key current areas of investigation:
-Retinal structure and fu...
Elijah Mak I am a Gates Cambridge scholar working on my PhD at the Department of Psychiatry. Broadly, my research interest relates to the use of multi-modal neuroimaging techniques to characterise structural and functional deficits in dementia and related co...
Professor Tamar Makin My main interest is in understanding how our body representation changes in the brain (brain plasticity). My primary model for this work is studying hand function and dysfunction, with a focus on how we could use technology to increase hand functi...
Dr Nina Maliar I am interested in mutations in DNA single-strand break repair pathway resulting in neurological phenotypes, and role of glia in the corresponding diseases.
Professor George Malliaras My research is in bioelectronics, specifically the application of organic electronic materials to interfacing with the brain, aiming to understand how the brain works and to develop new tools for the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases. Amon...
Professor Giovanna Mallucci FMedSci My lab is interested in understanding mechanisms of neurodegeneration. The central theme is the identification of common pathways across the spectrum of these disorders (which include Alzheimer's and related diseases) that are relevant for both me...
Maura Malpetti I am a Race Against Dementia & ARUK fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and Related disorders. I am interested in the study of neuropathology, biomarkers and clinical features of neurodegenerative diseases, with special inte...
Dr Flavia Mancini Chronic pain affects 1 in 5 people and is the leading cause of disability in the world. There are unresolved questions that urgently require answers to treat pain effectively, a crucial one being how the brain processes pain signals and gives rise...
Dr Kanad Mandke I am a Research Associate at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology. My research interests include the analysis of brain networks and understanding the neurophysiological basis of speech processing in children. To this ...
Anne Manktelow I work part-time in the Division of Anaesthesia as a Research Assistant conducting the follow-up studies with patients recovering from traumatic brain injury (including MRI scanning and neuropsychological testing).
I am also undertaking a part-ti...
Dr Tom Manly Our research relates to understanding impairment and rehabilitation in attentional and executive function. Our work with stroke patients mainly focuses on spatial neglect and its relationship to executive/frontal impairment. Our work with patients...
Dr Luis Manssuer BSc, MSc, PhD I work in the research group of Professor Valerie Voon. The lab uses a range of methods to understand the neural basis of neuropsychiatric disorders. My primary role in the lab is to make sense of intracranial neurophysiological data acquired from...
Dr Silvana Mareva Silvana is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Attention, Learning, and Memory (https://calm.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/). Her work focuses on studying neurodevelopmental difficulties transdiagnostically aiming to understand how and why chi...
Oriane Marguet My main research interests are dementia and neurodegenerative disorders, especially Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. I am interested in studying towards potential novel treatments, as well as computational methods to improve diagnosis ...
Dr Giorgio Marinato My Phd investigated the role of object-based auditory attention in naturalistic soundscapes, exploiting the Magnetoencephalography(MEG) signal through univariate and multivariate analysis techniques.
Currently I am working in Lorraine Tyler's lab...
Dr Theo Markettos We're building Bluehive, a large-scale neural network computer, aimed at simulating millions of neurons in real time on custom (FPGA) hardware. We're collaborating with the universities of Manchester, Sheffield and Southampton as part of the BIMP...
Professor Hugh Markus I use molecular genetic and neuroimaging (MRI and Transcranial Doppler) techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of, and develop treatments for, cerebrovascular disease. A particular interest is in cerebral small vessel disease, a major cause of...
Laura Marsh My work focuses on how control mechanisms shape what we remember. In particular, I'm interested in how disrupted retrieval control relates to dysfunctional autobiographical memory tendencies in mental health disorders such as depression. I am exam...
Dr William Marslen-Wilson My research interests are in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. I study the comprehension of human language in the mind and the brain using interdisciplinary neuroimaging and multivariate analysis techniques aimed at identifying ...
Miss Jessica Martin My research is interested in understanding early temperament and its relationship to emotional and behavioural difficulties in later childhood in rare genetic disorders and Intellectual Disability.
Professor Keith Martin The main goal of our group is to understand better the mechanisms of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death in glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. We aim to develop methods to protect RGC thus slowing the progression of gla...
Dr Matthew Mason I investigate the function and evolution of the middle ear apparatus in vertebrates. Comparative anatomy is backed up with more recent techniques, such as micro-CT and laser interferometry, in order to visualise the middle ear structures and exami...
Dr Sarah Mason My research interests are:
1) Better defining the neuropsychological profile of presymptomatic and early Huntington's disease using fMRI scanning and behavioural testing. With a particular interest in determining the factors which underpin the cog...
Dr Liria Masuda-Nakagawa I am interested in the circuit mechanisms of odor discrimination learning in the higher brain. The mushroom bodies (MBs) of insect brains are centers for associative olfactory learning. Using Drosophila larva, I have characterized the input region...
Dr Hugh Matthews Phototransduction and olfactory transduction. Calcium homeostasis in vertebrate photoreceptors and olfactory receptors, and its role in modulating their electrical responses to stimulation. Light-induced calcium release within the photoreceptor ou...
Dr Brian McCabe The neural mechanisms of learning and memory, particularly imprinting in the domestic chick. The young of many species, when exposed to a conspicuous object, rapidly learn the object's characteristics and subsequently narrow their social preferenc...
Dr Carmel McEniery I have two major research interests. One is arterial stiffness, and in particular, the role of the vascular endothelium in the regulation of arterial stiffness. The other is discovering more about the mechanisms leading to the development of hyper...
Dr Will McEwan The ability to selectively destroy harmful proteins could represent a powerful therapeutic approach in several diseases. Our work focusses on a newly discovered arm of immunity that operates in the intracellular environment. Viruses that import an...
Mr Colin McKenzie I am in charge of the Neurobiology Labs in the Department of Psychology
Mollie McKeon I am a 1st Year MRes + PhD Student at the Multiple Sclerosis Society Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair (Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute).
Dr Elizabeth McKiernan BA, MSc. MBChB, MRCPsych I am an Old Age Psychiatry trainee and Alzheimer's Society Clinical Research Fellow working towards a PhD in Psychiatry under Professor John O'Brien. My primary research interest is in using ultrahigh resolution MRI to investigate neurodegenerativ...
Dr Mary McLean I perform magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy studies on patients with brain tumours (as well as tumours of other parts of the body). The aim is to improve non-invasive diagnosis and the prediction and monitoring of response to treatment. ...
Dr Harvey McMahon FRS Molecular mechanisms of vesicle exocytosis, endocytosis and membrane trafficking in neurons.
We are interested in understanding basic mechanisms of vesicle trafficking, especially at the synapse, where synaptic vesicle exocytosis and endocytosis ...
Ailie McWhinnie I am interested in dopamine heterogeneity and will be focussing on the connectivity and physiology of the dopaminergic neurons in the olfactory bulb, with some comparison to those in the midbrain.
Using tracing, optogenetics and patch clamp elect...
Professor David Menon The research program of the University Division of Anaesthesia has aimed to understand regional cerebral pathophysiology to advance the care of critically ill patients after brain injury, from initial ictus, through recovery from coma and rehabili...
Dr Staci Meredith weiss My objective as a postdoctoral fellow within the Perinatal Imaging Partnership is to reconcile neural indicators of body maps, such as the somatosensory mismatch negativity and social body fNIRS, with behavioral profiles of infant spontaneous move...
Dr Florian Merkle My laboratory uses pluripotent stem cells to model human diseases that arise from the loss of aberrant function of neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate essential physiological and behavioural processes. In particular, obesity is thought to re...
Miss Elisa Merlini My research focuses on understanding how environmental toxins cause axon degeneration by triggering programmed axon death, a well characterised and preventable pathway associated with axonal injury and disease.
Dr Su Metcalfe The application of nanotechnology to healthcare - nano-medicine - is now recognised worldwide as a new era in clinical medicine. By loading biocompatible, biodegradable nano-particles with growth factor, and targeting to sites of tissue damage, a ...
Dr Emmanouil Metzakopian My group is interested in understanding the effect of environmental stress, including oxidative stress, on the progress of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Our aim is to identify novel therapeutic targets to protect ...
Dr Susanna Mierau My research focuses on the fundamental rules that govern the development of synaptic and network activity in the cortex and how this process is disrupted in autism and related disorders, with the ultimate goal of developing novel therapies.
I com...
Miss Chantal Miller My research aims to identify the mechanisms underlying different stages of psychotic illness. In particular, I am interested in the idea that the brain relies on hierarchical Bayesian inference, a process that may become derailed in disorders such...
Dr Paul Miller I use electrophysiology and structural biology to understand GABA-A receptors and ligands that target them. I am also using these approaches to develop novel small molecule and antibody tools against GABA-A receptor signalling and to study these t...
Dr Leonor Miller-Fleming My interest is to understand the basic molecular mechanisms that contribute for neurodegenerative diseases. Currently I am focusing on the RNA metabolism dysregulation associated with motor neuron disease and in parallel I am studying the mechanis...
Professor Amy Milton Memory is a critical function of the brain, but little is known about the mechanisms by which memories are modified, adapted, and persist. Memories are known to 'reconsolidate' undergoing updating and strengthening following their destabilisation ...
Dorian Minors My current research interests lie in the neural mechanisms that underpin intelligent behaviour. Many relatively unsophisticated animals appear to show glimpses of the highest orders of cognitive ability, once thought to be out of reach of such tin...
Dr Eric Miska We are interested in all aspects of gene regulation by regulatory RNA. Current research themes include: miRNA biology and pathology, miRNA mechanism, piRNA biology and the germline, endo-siRNAs in epigenetic inheritance and evironmental conditioni...
Dr Daniel Mitchell My research focuses on visual object representations in the human brain. I am interested in the flexible nature of such representations, their limited capacity and resolution in perception, visual working memory, and imagery, and their links with ...
Professor John Mollon My research interests are in the visual perception of colour, motion, form and depth; the genetic basis for individual variations in perception; the nature of the information carried by the cerebral bus; and the history of neuroscience and of colo...
Marcella Montagnese My main area of theoretical interest is reality distortion in psychosis and its underlying neurocognitive and physiological mechanisms. My current work focuses on the application of computational models of reinforcement learning (RL) in patients w...
Dr Anna Moore Developing earlry identification tools for child mental health by linking administrative, biomarker, genetic and phenotypic information.
Professor Brian Moore Mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments; relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; fitting of hearing aids to suit the individual; electrical stim...
Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir My research integrates approaches from experimental psychology, psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience to enable more effective interventions and ultimately prevention of mental health conditions relating to compulsivity and impulsivity.
I study pe...
Dr Laura Moreno-López I am interested in the study of the neuroanatomical mechanisms of resilient functioning in adolescents and young adults exposed to early life adversities.
Dr Marta Morgado Correia My research focuses on the use of quantitative MRI methods to understand the brain in health and pathology. I have a particular interested in diffusion MRI, an imaging modality which has been shown to provide useful information about the microstru...
Dr Sarah Morgan My research applies machine learning, network science and Natural Language Processing to better understand and predict brain development, cognition and mental health. I am an Accelerate Science Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science...
Dr Paul Morris My interests lie in the mechanisms underlying neuronal and network function (and dysfunction), focusing on receptors and ion channels.
Following my PhD in NMDA receptor function and regulation in midbrain dopaminergic neurons at Cambridge (under ...
Miss Emily Mort BSc MRes The field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease has shown that in utero environment can have long lasting consequences for offsrping health. More recent work has shown that maternal obesity can cause changes to the neurodevelopment of off...
Professor Jenny Morton Our research is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and on developing strategies to delay or prevent the death of neurones in injured or degenerating brain, particularly in Huntington's disease. We are also interes...
Alexa Mousley I am passionate about understanding brain organisation as it relates to behaviour, learning, and cognition in childhood. I am especially interested in the early emergence of structural brain organisation, which I currently research using generativ...
Dr Kevin Mulvihill Current research involved in investigating the prefrontal circuitry associated with negative emotional regulation. Aim is to provide key insights into elements of cognitive and emotional dysregulation potentially involved in neuropsychiatric illne...
Dr Nicholas Mundy We study the evolutionary genetics of brain size and sensory systems in primates. In particular, we are interested in the evolution and selection of colour vision polymorphisms in New World monkeys and lemurs, the evolution of vomeronasal recept...
Alexander Murley I am a clinical fellow in Professor Rowe's group. I run the PIPPIN study, which aims to improve our understanding of the epidemiology, clinical features and neurobiology of frontotemporal dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal s...
Dr Fionnuala Murphy My research focuses on how cognition and emotion interact - in healthy individuals, in individuals that suffer from mood disorders, and in brain-injured individuals. Executive control over neutral and emotional materials has featured prominently i...
Dr Graham Murray I work on the causes, brain mechanisms and treatments of mental disorder. I utilize a variety of neuroscience techniques, including statistical genomics, brain imaging, computational psychiatry, pharmacological and neuropsychological studies in pa...
Clara Mutschler My research focusses on the interaction of Schwann cells and neurons after peripheral nervous system injury. After injury, axons degenerate and Schwann cells transform into repair Schwann cells, which digest myelin using myelinophagy, attract macr...
Dr Stefania Nannoni neuroimaging in ischemic stroke and small vessel disease
Professor Pradeep Nathan I am a clinical pharmacologist with research interests in the neuropharmacology and neural substrates of cognition and emotion and psychiatric and neurological endophenotypes. I use cognitive, functional and molecular neuroimaging techniques (i.e....
Dr Sharon Neufeld I am a quantitative psychologist interested in understanding the course and interplay of multiple domains of mental health in young people. My work has shown how treatment-as-usual mental health services are associated with a subsequent reduction ...
Virginia Newcombe My research focuses on the use of MR imaging as a biomarker in traumatic brain injury (TBI). I am particularly interested in prediction of outcome after TBI and how acute management influences the long-term outcomes of patients. My projects, which...
Coco Newton My research aims to ascertain whether bespoke behavioural tests may deliver new clinically-relevant diagnostic methods for detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) earlier than currently possible. Current legacy clinical assessments predate the modern e...
Mr Yan Ting NG I am a 1st year MRes + PhD student at the MS Society Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair. I am interested in the remyelination and neuroregeneration.I hope the study in the mechanism of remyelination and neuroregeneration can provide us better solu...
Dr Nicolas Nicastro I am a Swiss board-certified Neurologist with a strong interest in dementia and movement disorders.
My research focuses on molecular PET/SPECT and structural MRI imaging in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease, especially as early diag...
Dr Victoria Nicholls My PhD investigated the role of visual attention in naturalistic, dynamic scenes, in this case road crossing scenes. As well as how changes in visual attentional control through development and ageing impact on road crossing decisions.
Currently...
Dr Maria Niedernhuber I am a cognitive neuroscientist fascinated by how we come to have conscious experiences in this world. My research aims to bridge sensory/bodily and cognitive levels of analysis to uncover the neural and cognitive underpinnings of conscious conten...
Dr Bart Nieuwenhuis Injury to the brain and spinal cord has devastating consequences because adult neurons in the central nervous system (CNS) do not regenerate. Gene therapy is a promising tool to promote axon regeneration. My research makes contributions to the fie...
Jennifer Noh My research focuses on the development and use of a mobile-based clinical assessment system that collects different sets of physiological, psychological, and behavioural data from individuals with intellectual and learning disabilities.
Dr Camilla Nord I am Group Leader at the University of Cambridge, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, and Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Christ’s College Cambridge. My lab investigates the neural, cognitive, and computational ...
Dr John O'Brien CBiol FSB Working on the application of improving biolistic delivery of getting DNA or fluorescent dyes into live cells. Biolistic transfection is proving an increasingly popular method of incorporating DNA or dyes into cells that are difficult to transfect...
Professor John T O'Brien My research interests include the role of biomarkers, especially MRI, SPECT and PET imaging, in the differential and early diagnosis of dementia, including identifying those 'at risk' of future cognitive decline and developing markers of onset and...
Dr Cahir O'Kane We are interested in the basic biology of axonal ER, and its relevance to neurodegenerative disease, using Drosophila as a model. Axonal ER forms a continuous tubular network throughout the neuron, comparable to a “neuron within a neuron”, potenti...
Dr Timothy O'Leary How do nervous systems adapt and repair themselves? How do they exhibit coherent function in spite of variable underlying properties? I study these questions using theory, computational models and experiments.
For example, it is well known that n...
Dr John O'Neill The causes and consequences of cellular circadian timekeeping and its interaction with sleep.
Professor Stephen O'Rahilly FRS FMedSci My research has been concerned with the elucidation of the basic causes of obesity and Type 2 diabetes at a molecular level and the translation of those discoveries into improved diagnosis and therapy for patients. My work has uncovered several p...
Dr Amy Orben Amy’s research uses large-scale data to examine how digital technologies affect adolescent psychological well-being and mental health. She uses innovative and rigorous statistical methodology to shed new light on pressing questions debated in poli...
Dr Andrew Osborne My research interest lies in how stem cells offer neuroprotection to retinal ganglion cells with particular interest to how secreted factors prevent visual loss.
My project focuses on how platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) can reduce retinal d...
Dr Christopher Osuafor I am a British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre for Research Excellence Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Specialist Registrar in Geriatrics and Stroke Medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. My research, the Cambridge 7T Cerebral Smal...
Miss Zeynep Öztürk I am a first year PhD student and my project is for understanding endoplasmic reticulum (ER) organization and roles of this existence in neurons related to neurodegeneration. ER and mitochondria are two organelles firstly became dysfunctional duri...
Dr Zahid Padamsey Our aim is to understand how nutrition impacts brain function and energy use. We focus on how dietary manipulations (e.g. calorie restriction, high fat diet) affect the cortex, which we probe in vivo using two-photon imaging and electrophysiology ...
Leonie Pakulat I am interested in the role of kisspeptin expressing neurons in sexual behaviour and reproduction in female mice.
Miss Claudia Pallucca My research focuses on the effect of stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases on cognition and emotion, from a behavioural and biological point of view.
In particular, my PhD project will involve the study of apathy in stroke patients: we will ...
Claudia Pama Currently I am based at the Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute in the lab of Dr Karadottir, investigating the pattern of developmental cortical myelination as well as the function of myelin in learning - under...
Yunisa Pamela I am working on congenital insensitivity to pain and other rare diseases related to pain and itch.
Dr David Parker We examine cellular and synaptic properties in neuronal networks using the lamprey spinal cord locomotor network as a model system. While this network is claimed, and often cited, as being characterised, there are actually significant gaps in our ...
Mr Nicholas Pasternack Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with both motor and cognitive symptoms. At present, no treatments exist to modify the rapidly progressive course of either the motor or cognitive symptoms of the disea...
Miss Marlene Patterer The aim of this research project is to provide new insights into the function and impact of exogenous (transplanted) senescent disease-associated induced Neural Stem Cells (iNSCs) within a 3D cellular environment using cerebral organoids.
Fibrobla...
Dr Karalyn Patterson FRS, FMedSci, FBA I study language and memory in adults, mainly from the perspective of the patterns of disruption to these cognitive functions that occur as a result of brain damage or disease.
Dr Roy Patterson We have developed a computational model of the auditory signal processing that transforms a sound wave into the auditory image you hear in response to that sound wave. We investigate how the cochlea and neural centres in the auditory pathway proce...
Mr Luke Pattison My research focuses on the role of proton-sensing G protein-coupled receptors in inflammation.
Dr Alexander Patto SPG11 loss-of-function mutations can cause any of three neurodegenerative diseases, sometimes with different presentations in the same family: a severe form of hereditary spastic paraplegia; a juvenile and slowly progressive ALS; or juvenile Parki...
Dr Andrew Patton Study of circadian rhythms in the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) using genetic and electrophysiological approaches.
My primary research focuses on the role of GABAergic synaptic transmission within the SCN and how this contributes to the ...
Dr Arkoprovo Paul I am investigating functional phenotypes of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived Neurons, Astrocytes and Microglia generated using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tools and forward reprogramming technologies. My current research is focuss...
Professor Ole Paulsen The primary interest of my group is the relationship between network oscillations and synaptic plasticity. Network oscillations naturally organise spike timing conducive to spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), a strong candidate for a mechani...
Mr Alexander Peattie Investigating the role of methylphenidate in improving cognitive function following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Specifically, using fMRI data analysis and functional connectivity to investigate interactions between large scale networks and the m...
Dr Polly Peers My current work is focused on understanding the relationship between attentional and memory deficits following stroke, and examining whether training of these cognitive functions can improve outcome for patients.
Professor Jesus Perez My research activity is mainly focused on early detection and intervention in psychosis. I am particularly interested in the epidemiology and psychopathology of people at high-risk of developing psychosis, with psychotic experiences and with first...
Dr Juan Jose Perez Moreno In neurons, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is not only found in the cell body, but also extends into dendrites and axonal presynaptic terminals. Axonal ER comprises a tubular network of mainly smooth ER, whose function is still poorly understood. In h...
Dr Benjamin Perry I am a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, and a Higher Trainee in General Psychiatry in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. I recently completed an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Department.
I'm interes...
Dr Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti Research in our group is focused on the understanding of inflammation in central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Over the past years, our research in regenerative neuroimmunology led to novel experimental advanced therapeutics with neural stem cell...
Dr Tom Pettini My research focuses on understanding how experience during a critical period towards the end of embryonic development leads to differences in nerve cell structure and connectivity in later larvae. Our experimental approach is to subject embryos to...
Professor Anna Philpott Our laboratory is interested in understanding the coordination of cell proliferation with cell fate determination and differentiation in development, stem cells and reprogramming, focusing particularly on the nervous system (as well as in endocri...
Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer I study the role of social connectedness on self-cognitive processing and mental health difficulties in adolescents in the UK and Spain
Eva Pillai Neurons extend axons across long distances, growing along highly specific 'tracks' to reach their synaptic target in the brain. Most studies of this process have focused on how chemical molecules guide axon navigation accurately. Our lab has shown...
Dr Scarlett Pinnock The rate of neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the adult hippocampus is highly labile. Much of this lability is due to the exquisite sensitivity of the progenitor cells to glucocorticoids. Glucocorticoids have two principal roles: absolute level...
Dr Kate Plaisted-Grant My research interest in autism was sparked by the fascinating cognitive strengths shown by many individuals with autism. These include exceptional abilities to process fine details, better discrimination abilities compared to typical individuals a...
Dr Stefano Pluchino Recent evidence from our own laboratory indicates that the systemic injection of somatic neural stem/precursor cells (NPCs) very efficiently protect the CNS from the chronic degeneration induced by inflammation both in small rodents as well as in ...
Anujan Poologaindran Originally from Toronto (Canada), I am a neuroscientist at Cambridge (UK) working on building a life in academic medicine.
My scientific work intersects at functional neurosurgery, behavioural neuroscience, and brain mapping with a special focus ...
Dr Jasper Poort I want to understand how we selectively process behaviourally relevant visual input. How does the brain turn a constant overflow of sensory information into selective representations of our environment that can optimally guide our actions? Studyin...
Professor Brechtje Post My research primarily focuses on speech prosody - intonation, accentuation, rhythm, and phrasing. Prosody simultaneously encodes information from different components of the linguistic system in the speech signal, in particular morpho-syntax, prag...
Noah Poulin I am interested in engineering neural precursor cells to improve the efficacy of cell transplantation in spinal cord injury.
Victoria Poulton I am a PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. I am interested in speech perception, how listeners map spoken language onto representations of meaning/semantics, the role of contextual information in word recognition and sentence...
Mr Stephen Price My group uses advanced multimodal MR and PET imaging to understand the heterogeneity of gliomas (high and low grade) in individual patients. We know that gliomas are among the most heterogeneous tumours but still do not have a method of detecting ...
Dr Christopher Proctor Chris's research is focused on engineering bionic systems to improve healthcare and advance bioscience. On going project themes include:
Electronic drug delivery: Targeted drug delivery can focus treatment on the region of the body affected by a ...
Dr Eleanor Raffan BVM&S PhD DipECVIM-CA MRCVS I am interested in the neural control of energy homeostasis in the body. We study canine models of obesity to discover new genes linked to obesity and interrogate the mechanisms in which genetic variation can influence neural control of metabolis...
Dr Ruma Raha-Chowdhury My main interest is in innate immunity, inflammation and brain iron homeostasis.
Inflammation and innate immunity are key players in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Down syndrome (DS). Individuals with DS have a spectrum of hematopoietic dysfunction...
Dr Taufiq Rahman My research interests broadly lie in two categories - structure-function studies of intracellular calcium channels and rational design and development of selective modulators of signalling proteins including ion channels
Dr Siddharth Ramanan I am a neuropsychologist and neuroscientist investigating the genesis and neural contributors of heterogeneous cognitive and behavioural symptoms in neurodegenerative dementia syndromes. I completed my PhD in 2020 from The University of Sydney, Au...
Dr Nadine Randel Each animal responds to its environment in a dynamic and flexible manner. Behavioral transitions in response to external and internal conditions can be learned or innate actions, mediated by different neuronal circuits throughout the nervous syste...
Professor Carl Edward Rasmussen I work on probabilistic inference and machine learning. What are the mathematical foundations of learning from experience in biological systems?
Dr Evan Reid My group's research is focussed on the hereditary spastic paraplegias, genetic conditions where the corticospinal tract axons degenerate. HSPs selectively involve axons while sparing the neuronal cell bodies, so we study them to understand molecul...
Dr Frank Reimann Research in the lab is currently focusing on enteroendocrine cells, especially glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) secreting cells, which we hope to target in the treatment of diabetes and obesity. GLP-1 secreting cells are electrically excitable and ...
Dr Jing Ren The serotonin system is the most frequently targeted neural system for treating mental illnesses, including depression and anxiety. Our team focuses on bridging the huge gap on the link between the abnormalities of serotonergic wiring and transmis...
Camice Revier My research is aimed at expanding the evidence and understanding of the relationship between sleep and social recovery in psychosis. With a secondary aim of examining the mediating effects of changes in cognition as part of the causal pathway. The...
Dr Sophie Richter BMBCh MA (Oxon) MRCEM FHEA Sophie is a Wellcome Trust PhD Fellow and Specialty Registrar in Emergency Medicine.
Her research focuses on the development of decision tools for the prognosis and management of traumatic brain injury in the emergency setting. Her previous resea...
Miss Lidia Ripoll Sánchez My research aims to determine some of the molecular and cellular mechanisms that control and generate behaviour in C.elegans via understanding neuronal interactions and dynamics. I use a combination of computational and experimental tools includin...
Dr Timothy Rittman BMBS BMedSci PgCertMedEd MRCP(London) PhD My main interest is in understanding how neurodegnerative disease progresses through the brain, in particular why neurodegenerative disease affect the brain in predictable patterns. To do this I develop computer models of disease processes using i...
Dr Miranda Robbins The Zlatic Lab is interested in identifying the neural circuits required for behaviour. My work in the group aims to identify memory engrams and the mechanisms of long-term memory formation. For this work I use 2-photon microscopy with holography ...
Professor Trevor Robbins Research interests span the areas of cognitive neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Main work focuses on the functions of the frontal lobes of the brain and their connections with other regions. These brain systems are re...
Professor Angela Roberts FMedSci I am interested in the brain networks underlying cognitive and emotional behaviour. In particular, my research focuses on the executive control functions of the prefrontal cortex and related brain structures, including the basal ganglia and the am...
Dr Rhys Roberts Our group is interested in peripheral nerve diseases, particularly the inherited peripheral neuropathies, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). We have focused on the demyelinating forms of CMT, where defects in intracellular membrane trafficking p...
Dr Hugh Robinson We study synaptic integration in mammalian cortical neurons - encoding of synaptic inputs into patterns of action potentials, or spikes. We are currently interested in
- development of advanced electrical stimulation techniques (conductan...
Professor Peter Robinson I am a computer scientist with an interest in neuroscience.
My research concerns problems at the boundary between people and computers. This involves investigating new technologies to enhance communication between computers and their users, and...
Mr Harry Robson I am currently a student on the MPhil in Basic and Translational Neuroscience. My project is based in the department of psychology and is looking at the molecular correlates of memory destabilisation using rodents.
Miss Amy Rochford Peripheral nerve injuries result in a disconnection in the nervous system communication and a consequent loss in neurological function. Currently, there are limited treatments for these conditions. Neuroprosthetics and cell transplantation are pro...
Chris Rodgers I am an expert in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS). My group develop advanced MRI and MRS methods usnig the 7T Terra MRI scanner at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre. Our aim is to push the boundaries of MR...
Dr John Rogers Approaches to gene therapy to promote axon regeneration. Specifically: expression of enzymes which can destroy axon-inhibitory proteoglycans, and the use of viral vectors which can express them in injured neurons.
Stefan Rogers-Coltman The primary motive of my research is to understand the role that the superior colliculus plays in mouse movement and decision-making. I employ in vivo 2-photon calcium imaging and the design of novel behavioural tasks in order to examine the cellu...
Ms Colleen Rollins Broadly, I'm interested in the behavioural and neuroanatomical correlates of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. My current research focusses on using a multimodal approach combining structural and functional neuroimaging data and cognit...
Dr Andres Roman-Urrestarazu My research interests are related to developmental disorders such as Autism, Schizophrenia and ADHD. I am interested in risk factors and traits that predispose to neuro-developmental disorders.
Dr Rafael Romero-Garcia I’m a computer science engineer interested in how complex brain networks change across different physiological and pathological conditions. During my PhD in neuroscience at the Pablo de Olavide University (Spain) I analysed cortical network disrup...
Dr Tim Rooney I am a research associate at the Alzheimer's Research UK Drug Discovery Institute where I work as a medicinal chemist on a variety of projects related to neurodegeneration. With expertise in drug discovery, organic chemistry and chemical biology, ...
Mr Matthew Rouse I am a PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit supervised by Prof Matt Lambon Ralph.
Professor James B. Rowe Dementia and Neurodegeneration have devastating consequences. My work aims to protect brain function in those at risk of dementia, and restore brain function in those with symptoms. My program has four pillars:
1. to define cognitive processes tha...
Dr Catarina Rua I am a post-doctoral researcher member of the MR Physics team and working on the 7T Terra MRI scanner at the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre in Cambridge, UK. I am involved in the UK7T Network Project which aims at standardizing imaging protocols acr...
Professor David Rubinsztein The pathogenesis of diseases caused by codon reiteration mutations (like Huntington’s disease and oculopharangeal muscular dystrophy).
Description of research:
We are studying the pathogenesis of diseases caused by codon reiteration mutations, l...
Dr Kai Ruggeri Dr Kai Ruggeri is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Psychology as well as Research Associate specialising in methods, research design and analysis in the Engineering Design Centre. He works on a variety of projects, typically related to ...
Amber Ruigrok Amber Ruigrok is a researcher at the Autism Research Centre, Dept of Psychiatry. Amber's PhD research investigated how testosterone and variation in the androgen receptor may be involved in the development of sex differences in human brain white m...
Professor John Rust The development, evaluation and implementation of psychometric tests and psychometric testing procedures. As Director of The Psychometrics Centre I have been responsible for the UK standardisation of many of the most widely used psychometric tests...
Dr Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon Ordered assembly of a small number of proteins into amyloid structures within neurons and, in some cases, glia underlies neurodegenerative disease. We work to understand the molecular basis of amyloid assembly in neurodegenerative disease. Key que...
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. ...
Dr CHIE TAKAHASHI I have a multi-disciplinary background in cognitive neuroscience, physics and engineering, and considerable research experiences in both academic and industrial environments. My research interests encompass various perspectives of vision science a...
Dr Deborah Talmi Our research aim is to understand memory and feelings mechanistically, and to be able to predict mathematically, how an individual would feel and which one of their past experiences would come to mind.
We have developed a theoretical framework fo...
Professor Robert Tasker 1. Multicenter clinical studies: In the USA I am a co-investigator and Executive Committee member for the recently funded NIH ‘Multiple Medical Therapies for Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury – A Comparative Effectiveness Approach’ that will recrui...
Professor Colin Taylor Roles of inositol trisphosphate (IP3) receptors in generating intracellular calcium signals. Structural determinants of IP3 receptor behaviour. Decoding of calcium signals.
Dr Joana Taylor Tavares I am currently working at research coordinator at the Adaptive Brain Lab.
My PhD used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate oversensitivity to negative feedback in both Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder. The work was ...
Dr Zhongzhao Teng Atherosclerotic plaques are multi-component structures composed of a lipid core, calcium or haemorrhage enclosed by a fibrous cap, which can be captured by MRI. The rupture of atherosclerotic plaques is responsible for most clinical symptoms of he...
Dr Alana Thackray Prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are infectious, fatal,
neurodegenerative conditions of humans and animal species including scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in ...
Professor Roger Thomas Intracellular ion homeostasis in nerve cells. I use pH and Ca2+ sensitive microelectrodes to study ionic interactions inside large snail neurones. I am currently investigating the Ca:H coupling ratio of the plasma membrane Ca pump, or PMCA.
Dr Ru Tian IMAGING ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN OLIGOMERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE BRAINS
To date, the molecular origins of PD are not fully understood and no disease-modifying treatments are available. Although Lewy bodies are relatively inert, smaller soluble assemblies...
Dr May Yung Tiet I am an Honorary Clinical Research Associate studying neurodegeneration in Ataxia-Telangiectasia.
I completed a BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science in 2006 and was a Research Associate at the Institute of Cancer Research. After completing my MBChB stud...
Dr Jenny Tillotson This research crosses neuroscience, design, scent, biotechnology, complementary therapies and AI and combines wearable technology with biometric and connected sensors.
Using aroma-based stress management strategies, anxiety can be reduced using ...
Dr Sebastian Timmler I study molecular mechanisms of activity-dependent myelination in the central nervous system. I combine the use of primary rat cell culture with optogenetice, light and electron microscopy and proteomics.
Dr David Tolhurst Visual coding of natural scenes. Information coding in the visual cortex studied by single unit recording, computational models and psychophysical discrimination by human observers. Visual deficits in developmental or acquired visual abnormality.
Dr Livia Tomova I am interested in how stress, loneliness and social isolation affect the brain and mind, especially during adolescence. My PhD research in Psychology at University of Vienna (supervised by Claus Lamm) focused on the effects of acute stress on so...
Dr Daniel Tozer I use MRI and associated image processing techniques to investigate stroke and small vessel disease. I am interested in the application of quantitative MR techniques to neurological conditions and developing image processing tools to meet this aim.
Dr Kyle Treiber I am a lecturer in neurocriminology and deputy director of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), a longitudinal study investigating the interaction between people and social environments in the development of crime...
Marco Tripodi One of the major tasks that the nervous system faces is that of linking perception to action. We perceive the world around us through our senses and we use this information to select the most appropriate set of actions.
My lab studies the organiza...
Dr Anthony Tsang Along the major research interest of Dr Blouet's group, my current research focus involves characterising amino acid sensing metabolic neural circuits, both anatomically and functionally.
However, during my postgraduate studies, I received solid ...
Andromachi Tsoukala My research focuses on experimental methods to investigate various aspects of human cognition, particularly with regards to spoken and written language processing as well as in terms of language-related cognitive mechanisms. Among my research inte...
Dr Kamen Tsvetanov Dr. Tsvetanov is a Brain Non-Clinical Postdoctoral Fellow in cognitive neuroscience of ageing. The central goal of his research is to obtain a better understanding of the complex relationship between human brain dynamics and cognition in healthy a...
Dr Yi-Chun Tung My research interests focus on hypothalamic pathways involved in the regulation of energy homeostasis. During my current post, I am contributing to fundamental systems physiology approaches in rodents. With extensive expertise in hypothalamic neur...
Ms Georgia Turner My research examines the individual differences which lead to different patterns of social media use, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying the effects of social media on mental health.
Mr Rich Turner I am in the final year of my PhD as part of the MRC Doctoral Training Programme at the University of Cambridge. As part of the Neuronal Oscillations Group in the Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, I conduct research into the latera...
Dr Richard Turner My research lies at the interface between computer perception (which builds artificial systems for understanding images, sounds and videos), neuroscience (which tries to understand the brain) and machine-learning (which provides a theoretical fram...
Professor Lorraine Tyler The interdisciplinary research in my lab combines cognitive models with multi-modal imaging to understand the neurobiological substrate for language functions, and the extent to which they are adaptive and capable of reorganisation following eithe...
Ms Julie Uchitel Investigating the use of high density diffuse optical tomography (DOT) in newborns to investigate functional brain connectivity during sleep states
Dr Cathryn Ugalde Identification of pathways that may be targeted for the therapeutic treatment of neurodegeneration
Dr Ben Underwood MA MBBS PhD FRCPsych CertMedEd I am a consultant old age psychiatrist in Cambridge. I am interested in novel therapeutic approaches in dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease. I completed my PhD with David Rubinsztein looking at autophagy up-regula...
Dr Nigel Unwin I am interested in finding out how ion channels work, using electron microscopy to analyse their structures trapped in different physiological states. Current research focuses on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the transmitter-gated ion chan...
Dr Delshad Vaghari I am a post-doctoral research associate at the Adaptive Brain Lab (Prof Zoe Kourtzi's Lab). My primary interest concerns how to leverage the use of machine learning to study neurodegenerative diseases. I use neuroimaging techniques such as electro...
Stavros Vagionitis MSc, PhD Oligodendrocytes produce myelin, a lipoproteinic substance that is wrapped around neuronal axons in a life-long process called myelination.
I am studying the contribution of oligodendrocytes and their precursors (OPCs) to myelin maintenance and r...
Maris Vainre I'm investigating whether mindfulness training improves attention and whether this improvement translates into workplace performance.
Natalie Valle Guzman I work on different studies investigating disorders of motivation and impulsivity, both with healthy volunteers as with patients with various disorders. I am responsible for participant recruitment and management of the research, and I help run s...
Charlotte van Coeverden MSc I am interested in how rewards are coded in the brain and how this reflects on social behaviour.
Dr Jelle van den Ameele I am a neurologist with an interest in developmental neurobiology and mitochondrial genetics. In the lab, we study how cells and tissues respond to mitochondrial dysfunction, focusing on neural stem cells and the brain. Our goal is to identify nov...
Dr Agatha van der Klaauw I am currently working with Professor Sadaf Farooqi at the Institute of Metabolic Science. We use a number of genetic approaches, including whole-exome sequencing, to identify novel genes involved in hypothalamic development in patients with sever...
Dr Sander van der Linden Dr. Sander van der Linden is a University Lecturer in Psychology, Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab and a Fellow of Churchill College. His research interests include social perception, normative influence, the “wisdom of crowds”...
Professor Anne-Laura van Harmelen Anne-Laura van Harmelen is an affiliated researcher at the department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Van Harmelen is professor of Brain, Safety and Resilience at the Institute of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University in the Net...
Ms Francesca van Tartwijk Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a lethal neurodegenerative disease, characterised by the death of motor neurons. Though the causes of ALS are unknown, mutations in several genes have been linked to ALS, including in that encoding the protei...
Dr Szilvia Vas My research interest focuses on the regulation of sleep-wake architecture and brain oscillation in different behavioural states.
I joined Professor Jenny Morton's research group in 2015 to study the alterations of sleep-wake pattern and EEG spec...
Deniz Vatansever Extensive neuroimaging research has identified a set of brain regions with prominent activity during “no task” baseline conditions, collectively known as the default mode network. The DMN is hypothesized to drive a variety of functions including f...
Professor Bert Vaux --grounding of phonological learning in a mathematical implementation of evolutionary information theory.
--phonological cognition.
--implications of selective aphasias, first and second language acquisition phenomena, processing and production ef...
Ms Maria Vedechkina I am interested the mechanisms through which childhood adversity, including abuse and neglect, shapes neurodevelopment and mental health across the lifespan. The aim of my research is to identify biobehavioural markers of risk and resilience to in...
Professor Michele Vendruscolo Our research at the Centre for Misfolding Diseases (https://www.cmd.ch.cam.ac.uk/) is aimed at understanding the molecular origins of neurodegenerative disorders.
We have set up an interdisciplinary programme that brings together methods and conc...
Dr Petra Vertes I lead the Systems and Computational Neuroscience group in the Department of Psychiatry, and I am a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. I am also one of the co-founders of the Cambridge Networks Network - a forum for academics across different d...
Dr Martin Vestergaard I investigate theoretical and functional relationships among cognitive and economic constructs of decision psychology and communication. I use psychophysical experimentation, computational models and brain imaging techniques to identify behavioura...
Dr Deborah Vickers Deborah Vickers is funded by a Medical Research Council Senior Fellowship in Hearing Research. She leads the ‘Sensory Optimisation Using Neuroscience for Devices’ (SOUND) Lab, where research is focussed on understanding sound perception, impact...
Dr Margreet Vogelzang My research combines psycholinguistic, neuroscientific, statistical, and cognitive modeling methods to investigate different aspects of language processing. Specifically, I work on syntactic processing throughout the lifespan. My research entails ...
Jacqueline von Seth Speech is inherently multisensory. When engaged in a face-to-face conversation, we can make use of visual cues in the speaker’s head and facial movements to significantly improve speech comprehension. This is especially important in adverse listen...
Professor Valerie Voon Why do we repeat behaviours that we know are bad for us? Or make impulsive poorly considered decisions? These decision making processes are relevant in our daily lives and can be hijacked in disorders of pathology.
The Voon lab spans across Camb...
Mr Konstantinos Voudouris I am interested in the cognitive evaluation of machine learning systems. I work on understanding how and why they behave the way they do, particularly with reference to physical common-sense reasoning, in an effort to build safer, more robust, and...
Dr Denise Walker Senior Scientist, Bill Schafer’s lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
A key focus of my research is the molecular and circuit basis of mechanosensation; the molecules responsible (innexins, degenerin/epithelial Na+ channels (DEG/ENaCs)) and p...
Ms Ellen Wall The hypothalamus is a structure in the brain which is responsible for the regulation of vital physiological systems, the reproductive system being one of these. It does this by releasing gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) in a pulsatile manner...
Miss Natalie Wallis I study the genetics basis of obesity, with focus on neuroendocrine genes. This offers the chance to better understand the mechanisms of appetite control and energy balance in the CNS. My primary model for the genetics of obesity is canine subject...
Mr Yizhou Wan High-grade glioma is the most common primary brain cancer. Cognitive symptoms are the commonest neurological deficits reported by patients. They have a significant impact on quality of life and reduce survival. Cognition depends on brain network f...
Jieni Wang Building an automated mouse cage (Autonomouse) for neuroscience experiments.
Dr Mengxin Wang We are currently using high-field, laminar imaging techniques to investigate mechanisms of visual plasticity.
Dr Elizabeth Warburton Research interests are as follows
1. Molecular imaging of atheroma - particularly carotid plaque imaging using PET/CT and MRI techniques. Both Clinical and microPET imaging. Proof of principle trials of novel atheroma drugs with imaging biomarker...
Dr Varun Warrier My team works on social and genetic factors that influence neurodevelopment, and mental health. We have a particular interest in investigating heterogeneity in outcomes to develop targeted support and therapy for those who need it.
This publicat...
Mr Yiran Wei Interested in network neurosciences research and deep learning modelling on brain tumour patients
Miss Margaret Westwater My primary scientific aim is to examine the interaction between peripheral metabolic signaling and neural activity in individuals with healthy and disordered eating behaviors. This work involves measurement of metabolic functioning (e.g., body com...
Dr Simon White Developing methodology to address issues when applying Bayesian longitudinal modelling with missing data, Bayesian sample size and study design, or large scale simulation studies to applications in neuroimaging, cognition and ageing.
Dr Joyce Whittington Early research on specific learning disabilities - dyslexia - and associated cognitve deficits. For the last 10 years research has focussed on various prevalence, cognitive and behavioural aspects of Prader-Willi syndrome. Most of the latter is d...
Dr Alex Whitworth My lab is interested in understanding the mechanisms of mitochondrial homeostasis in relation to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and motor neuron disease. We use a combination of the powerful genetic techniques of Drosophila...
Dr Ian Wilkinson My research is clinically orientated and centres on the physiology and pharmacology of the cardiovascular system, and particularly the large arteries and endothelial function. As a clinical pharmacologist, I combine detailed physiological measure...
Dr Paul Wilkinson Until December 2020, Paul Wilkinson is University Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are the epidemiology and treatment of self-harm and depressi...
Professor Guy Williams Our group’s research interests lie broadly in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). This phenomenon allows data to be collected noninvasively on both the structure and function of the human brain. We research novel acquisition methods to provide contr...
Dr Caroline Williams-Gray MRCP PhD My research aims to better define the clinical heterogeneity of Parkinson’s disease and to understand the neurobiological basis of this, with the ultimate goal of developing more targeted therapeutic strategies for different PD subtypes. Using epi...
Ben Williges Dr Ben Williges is a Hearing Technology and Audiological Engineer. He is currently working on measuring cortical responses in adults with Cochlear implants (CIs), in order to develop objective measures to help understand sound transmission through...
Ms Livia Wilod Versprille My research is to investigate the effect of dopamine on attention and cognitive flexibility by testing behavioural constructs in rodents.
Dr Emma Rachel Wilson My particular interests lie in molecular neuroscience and diseases of the peripheral nervous system.
I completed my PhD in Neuroscience at University College London, under the supervision of Prof. Linda Greensmith, Prof. Mary M. Reilly and Dr. Be...
Ian Winter Primitive neural mechanisms of auditory scene analysis.
My research searches for neurophysiological correlates of the cues necessary for the segregation and fusion of auditory objects. This work is carried out in close collaboration with psychop...
Stefan Winzeck As part of the CENTER-TBI project, I am working on the analysis of magnetic resonance images of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI). My research interest focuses on the incorporation of data from multiple centres as well as the examination of disease p...
Dr Noham Wolpe I am a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry.
My broad interest is in the interplay between cognition and action in humans. More specifically, my previous work has been on volition, perception of action and cognitive contributions to m...
Professor Daniel Wolpert FMedSci FRS The group uses engineering approaches to understand how the human brain controls movement. The work includes both computational modelling and experimental approaches using robotic and virtual reality interfaces. Research areas include motor planni...
Dr Christian Wood My work focuses on understanding the circuits within the prefrontal cortex that control cognitive and emotional functions, with a view to establishing the dysfunctional pathways that produce symptoms in psychiatric disorders.
Dr Peter Wooding Correlation between placental structure and function using light and electron microscopy for structure and immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridisation for function. The focus is mainly on ruminants but includes comparative studies on a wide vari...
Miss Rebecca Woodrow My research aims to better characterise the consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) using multimodal neuroimaging (fMRI, PET, DTI). This focuses upon resting-state fMRI to investigate network dynamics, dysfunction, and recovery, and how these...
Orla Woodward The number of people living with obesity has tripled worldwide since 1975 with serious implications for public health. As obesity is a consequence of food intake exceeding energy expenditure, efforts are being made to better understand the neuroen...
Dr Alexandra Woolgar We study the neural basis for flexible cognitive control, underpinning the incredible human capacity for diverse and flexible behaviour.
Our research uses multivariate analysis of fMRI, E/MEG, and combined TMS-fMRI data. We are interested in ho...
Dr Lidia Wrobel I am a post-doctoral researcher at Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. My research interests aim to understand the mechanisms that could prevent accumulation of misfolded toxic proteins in neurodegenerative diseases. To maintain proper prote...
Ms Lucia Wunderlich In addition to the long-known signalling pathways based on post-translational modifications of downstream targets, a different mechanism linking extracellular stimuli and mRNA translation has recently been discovered in neurons. This mechanism inv...
Miss Caroline Wyatt Conducting my PhD project on developing small antibody (nanobody) modulation of GABA receptors and mechanisms to deliver them to the cellular membrane in vivo in Dr. Paul Miller's lab.
Professor Giles Yeo MBE I study brain control of body-weight, and currently have two main aims:
Identifying new players in the hypothalamic control of energy balance.
a. Genetic studies point to the brain as having a crucial role in modulating appetitive behaviour. A col...
Edward Young My previous work has focused on providing a normative explanation for homeostasis of neural activity. Using the tools of efficient coding theory, I developed a framework that explains neural homeostasis in terms of a tradeoff between energy and in...
Yizhou Yu My main research focuses on developing potential therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease using cell and fly models, in combination with human genetic, biochemical, behavioural and brain imaging data.
I am also involved in a collaborative proj...
Professor Patrick Yu-Wai-Man PhD, FRCPath, FRCOphth I am an academic neuro-ophthalmologist with a major research interest in optic neuropathies, neurogenetics and mitochondrial eye diseases. I hold joint clinical appointments at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge and Moorfields Eye Hospital in Lon...
Miss Yin Yuan Roles of distinct cell types in the developing functional networks of cortical cultures and human organoids at the cellular scale as the disease model for Rett Syndrome
Dr Gwyneth Zai My research area focuses on the genetics and pharmacogenetics of psychiatric disorders. Almost all psychiatric disorders are complex and heterogeneous in nature and my research aims to identify homogeneous phenotypes, specifically cognitive profi...
Adriana Zainurin My research focuses on the relationship between brain inflammation, blood brain barrier permeability and cognition in cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). More specifically, the research aims to investigate whether brain inflammation and blood br...
Dr Rashid Zaman FRCPsych I am a psychiatrist and researcher interested in collaborative and translational research in number of psychiatric disorders, including, ADHD, Bipolar Affective Disorder, Depression, OCD and Schizophrenia.
I am also intersted in neuromodulation t...
Dr Shahid Zaman The main theme of our research is to understand the role of amyloid, tau, inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction in the genesis of cognitive impairment and dementia in people with Down's syndrome.
Julia M Zbiegly Neurotrophin BDNF receptor Tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB) is a cardinal regulator of neuronal survival and synaptic plasticity in mature neuronal systems. In neurodegeneration and ageing, its expression and signalling is impaired. Extensive lit...
Natalia Zdorovtsova My research focuses on establishing links between attributes of brain structure, brain function, and behaviour in children with neurodevelopmental conditions like ADHD and autism. I am interested in applying complex systems approaches - such as Co...
Elena Zevgolatakou Investigation of the behavioural and neural basis of recovery in post-stroke aphasia.
Dr Chao Zhao My research focuses on mechanism of remyelination of central nervous system following demyelination in various conditions. After demyelinating injury, the system activates a repair process, which involves oligodendrocyte progenitor cells turning i...
Dr Hisham Ziauddeen MRCPsych PhD I am a Senior Clinical Research Associate working with Prof. Paul Fletcher. I work on brain reward systems using pharmacological fMRI and behavioural measures, to study the role of environmental influences and opioid and dopaminergic systems in co...
Mr Chisomo Zimphango Effective timely monitoring of cerebral metabolism along with other metrics following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) is required to predict onset of secondary brain damage. To fulfil this, my goal is to integrate microdialysis with spectrometric ...
Dr Leor Zmigrod Dr Leor Zmigrod is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines methods from experimental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience to investigate the psychology of ideological adherence and group identity formatio...
Dr Katharina Zühlsdorff I am interested in the neural basis of reinforcement learning and cognitive flexibility in relation to depression and other psychiatric disorders. I use multimodal neuroimaging and behavioural datasets in my research and aim to translate findings ...
