Our people

Dr Carl Hodgetts

CUBIC Director, Reader

Royal Holloway

episodic memory; spatial cognition; dementia; similarity

Prof. Veena Kumari

Professor

Brunel

personality; psychosis; depression; mindfulness; sleep

Prof. Lauren Stewart

Professor

Roehampton

music; maternal mental health; arts and culture

Prof. Kathrin Cohen-Kadosh

Professor

Surrey

brain development; plasticity; emotion regulation; microbiome gut-brain axis

Prof. Szonya Durant

Professor

Royal Holloway

visual perception; human computer interaction; attention

Prof. Ryan McKay

Professor

Royal Holloway

belief formation; politics; religion; morality

Dr Jonas Larsson

Associate Professor

Royal Holloway

visual perception; predictive coding; adaptation; cortical organisation

Dr Karen Brandt

Associate Professor

Roehampton

memory; mental health

Dr André Szameitat

Reader

Brunel

meditation; multi-tasking; executive functions

Dr Bianca de Haan

Senior Lecturer

Brunel

selective attention; competitive interactions; extinction; stroke

Dr Byron Creese

Senior Lecturer

Brunel

Alzheimer’s; dementia; psychosis; ageing; mental health

Dr Matteo De Marco

Senior Lecturer

Brunel

semantic memory; graph theory; cognitive networks; Alzheimer’s

Dr Ray Norbury

Senior Lecturer

Brunel

sleep; chronotype; well-being

Dr Nicola Johnstone

Senior Lecturer

Roehampton

gut-brain axis; neurochemistry; anxiety; development

Dr Gabriele Belluci

Lecturer

Royal Holloway

social cognition; computational neuroscience; loneliness; paranoia

Dr Kyle Jasmin

Lecturer

Royal Holloway

social neuroscience; auditory cognition; autism; language; communication

Dr Rikki Lissaman

Lecturer

Royal Holloway

ageing; episodic memory; Alzheimer’s; APOE; menopause

Dr Matteo Lisi

Lecturer

Royal Holloway

decision making; perception; vision; metacognition

Dr Anna-Katharina Bauer

Lecturer

Royal Holloway

auditory perception; ageing; cognition; menopause; EEG

Dr Warren Bakay

Lecturer

Roehampton

auditory neuroscience; noise-induced hearing damage; hidden hearing loss

Dr Pin-Chun Chen

Lecturer

Royal Holloway

sleep; memory; heart-brain interactions

Dr Irena Arslanova

Postdoctoral Fellow

Royal Holloway

time perception; interoception; attention

Kiran Garcha

PhD Student

Brunel

sensory processing sensitivity; mental health; cognitive function

Akilles Rechardt

PhD Student

Royal Holloway

ageing; computational neuroscience; deep learning

Olaf Borghi

PhD Student

Royal Holloway

cognitive science; political psychology; social neuroscience

Andrei Daniel Barbanta

PhD Student

Brunel

neurogenesis; ageing; music; psychosis