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
