Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour
Research within the Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Research Theme covers a broad spectrum and some key topics that you will find in the list of investigators below includes:
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience and its applications
- Computational Neuroscience
- Developmental Neuroscience (including impact on behaviour and mental health)
- Genetics and Genomics of Neurological Disorders
- Glia and Neuroinflammation
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Neurology and Clinical Psychiatry
- Pyschology and Behaviour
- Sensor Perception (including Chemoreception and pain)
How to find a research supervisor
Research supervisors are either staff members of the University, or based in one of the research units or institutions associated with the University.
Supervisors are in high demand and may not be able to respond to your enquiry immediately, so please be patient. Some may already be supervising the maximum number of PhD students they can, and won’t be able to take on any new students.
Browse potential research supervisors:
accepting applications from prospective postgraduate students
accepting applications from summer students
Supervisors accepting applications from prospective Postgraduate Students:
Dr Amy Ahern
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Development and evaluation of behavioural interventions for obesity and diabetes; Eating behaviours; Mental health in obesity and type 2 diabetes; Understanding the determinants of initiation and maintenance of health behaviour change
Email: ala34@cam.ac.uk
Professor Franklin Aigbirhio
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Novel radiopharmaceuticals and radiochemical methods for molecular imaging
Email: fia20@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Michael Anderson
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: Memory cognitive control and their interaction from behavioural to neural levels; mechanism on mnemonic attention and inhibitory control; incidental and motivated forgetting; controlling unwanted memories of trauma
Email: michael.anderson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Duncan Astle
Department of Psychiatry and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: Neuroinformatic approaches to understanding neurodevelopmental conditions in childhood
Email: duncan.astle@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Edward Avezov
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Organelle Cell Biology of neurodegeneration
Email: ea347@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Sabine Bahn
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Topic: Identification of a panel of prognostic/diagnostic biomarkers and novel targets related to mental/neurological disorders with an emphasis on schizophrenia bipolar and major depressive disorders. Translation of biomarkers and targets to the clinical environment and the pharmaceutical industry to facilitate early diagnosis and drug discovery efforts
Email: sb209@cam.ac.uk
Dr Gabriel Balmus
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: DNA Damage Response in ageing and neurodegeneration
Email: gb318@cam.ac.uk
Professor Manohar Bance
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: hearing and balance disorders, wearables and sensors, inner ear biology
Email: mlb59@cam.ac.uk
Professor Roger Barker
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Topic: Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases
Email: rab46@cam.ac.uk
Professor Simon Baron Cohen
Department of Psychology (Department of Psychiatry)
Topic: Autism: causes and interventions
Email: sb205@cam.ac.uk
Dr Damiano Barone
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Advanced neural interfaces
Email: dgb36@cam.ac.uk
Dr Sumru Bayin
Gurdon Institute, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Neural stem cell biology during development and repair
Email: nsb44@cam.ac.uk
Dr Omer Bayraktar
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Cellular genetics
Email: ob5@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Paul Bays
Department of Psychology
Topic: Computational study of vision, memory and action
Email: pmb20@cam.ac.uk
Associate Professor Tristan Bekinschtein
Department of Psychology
Topic: Brain integrative mechanism. Neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious processes in sleep anaesthesia and its transitions from wakefulness. Modelling of attention mechanisms. Neurophenomenology.
Email: tb419@cam.ac.uk
Professor David Belin
Department of Psychology
Topic: Emotion regulation, addiction, impulsivity, compulsivity
Email: bdb26@cam.ac.uk
Dr Anne Bertolotti
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Cellular aspects of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases
Email: aberto@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Psychology
Topic: Brain and social cognitive development in human adolescence
Email: sjblakemore@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Professor Clemence Blouet
Clinical Biochemistry
Topic: Brain nutrient sensing for energy and nutritional homeostasis
Email: csb69@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leonardo Bottolo
Department of Medical Genetics
Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq)
Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk
Dr Mirjana Bozic
Department of Psychology
Topic: Cognitive neuroscience of language and bilingualism
Email: mb383@cam.ac.uk
Dr Raymond Bujdoso
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Molecular pathology in prion disease
Email: rb202@cam.ac.uk
Professor Edward Bullmore
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Methods for analysis of brain imaging data
Email: etb23@cam.ac.uk
Dr David Bulmer
Department of Pharmacology
Topic: Translational Neuroscience - use of human tissue to study the mechanisms of visceral pain in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Email: dcb53@cam.ac.uk
Dr Harry Bulstrode
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Neural Stem Cell and Microenvironment Biology
Email: hb252@cam.ac.uk
Dr Rudolf Cardinal
Psychiatry
Topic: Computational psychiatry and clinical informatics
Email: rnc1001@cam.ac.uk
Professor Albert Cardona
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Neuroscience
Email: ac2040@cam.ac.uk
Dr Bob Carlyon
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: Cochlear Implants; Pitch Perception; Auditory Scene Analysis
Email: bob.carlyon@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Lucy Cheke
Department of Psychology
Topic: Episodic memory and episodic foresight
Email: lgc23@cam.ac.uk
Professor Patrick Chinnery
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Genetic basis of neurological disorders and particularly mitochondrial diseases.
Email: pfc25@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Isabel C.H. Clare
Psychiatry
Topic: Decision-making, including decision-making in the criminal justice system, by autistic people/people with learning (intellectual) disabilities; cognitive predictors of Alzheimer's Disease in people with Down Syndrome; the phenomenon of 'regression' in people with Down Syndrome;
Email: ichc2@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Hannah Clarke
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Understanding the neural and neurochemical basis of behaviours mediated by the prefrontal cortex and their relevance to psychiatric disorders.
Email: hfc23@cam.ac.uk
Professor Menna Clathworthy
Department of Medicine
Topic: Tissue immunity in health and disease
Email: mrc38@cam.ac.uk
Professor of Comparative Cognition, Fellow of the Royal Society Nicola Clayton
Psychology
Topic: Comparative Cognition in Crows, Cuttlefish, Children and Humans
Email: nsc22@cam.ac.uk
Professor Michael Coleman
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair
Topic: Axon degeneration and its roles in neurodegenerative disease
Email: mc469@cam.ac.uk
Professor Alasdair Coles
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit)
Topic: Remyelination
Email: ajc1020@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Coles
Department of Medicine
Topic: Mechanisms responsible for secondary neuronal injury, their temporal profile, and implications for eventual neurocognitive recovery following head injury (TBI).
Email: jpc44@cam.ac.uk
Dr Anthony Coll
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Molecular control of appetite and obesity
Email: apc36@cam.ac.uk
Professor Marek Czosnyka
Department of Haematology
Topic: Mathematical modelling of intracranial dynamics - brain injury and hydrocephalus
Email: mc141@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Tim Dalgleish
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: Experimental investigation of cognition-emotion relationships; post-traumatic stress; functional theoretical modelling of emotions; depression
Email: tim.dalgleish@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Jeff Dalley
Psychology
Topic: Integration of brain imaging, neuropharmacology and circuit-level interventions to investigate the neurobiological origins of behavioural endophenotypes in neuropsychiatry
Email: jwd20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Gregory Davis
Psychology
Topic: Attention, Consciousness, Security Screening, Social Cognition
Email: gjd1000@cam.ac.uk
Dr Matt Davis
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: Neuro-anatomical and computational accounts of speech perception and comprehension; spoken word recognition and learning; neural network modelling of speech and hearing; fMRI and MEG brain imaging; tACS brain stimulation
Email: matt.davis@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Janet Deane
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The role of sphingolipids in health and disease
Email: jed55@cam.ac.uk
Dr Laura Dearden
Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Impact of nutrition in pregnancy on mother and baby hypothalamus
Email: ld454@cam.ac.uk
Dr John Deeks
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: human audition and in particular: pitch perception; speech recognition; auditory grouping and segregation; hearing through cochlear and auditory brainstem implants
Email: john.deeks@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Robbie Duschinsky
Public Health and Primary Care
Topic: child and family mental health, the integration of health and social care for children and families, and the use of qualitative methods within primary care research
Email: rd522@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Karen Ersche
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Neuropsychological correlates and neurochemical processes underlying addictive behaviour and resultant therapeutic interventions, brain networks underlying vulnerability and resilience to drug addiction
Email: ke220@cam.ac.uk
Professor Sadaf Farooqi
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity
Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk
Professor Walter Federle
Zoology
Topic: Animal biomechanics, insect-plant interactions
Email: wf222@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia
Email: ef280@cam.ac.uk
Dr Angeleen Fleming
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: How do protein clearance pathways, such as autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome system, affect neurodegenerative disease severity?
Email: af425@cam.ac.uk
Professor Tamsin Ford
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health
Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Paul Freeman
Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Intervertebral disc disease
Email: pf266@cam.ac.uk
Dr Elisa Galliano
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Neuronal plasticity, dopamine, olfaction, adult neurogenesis
Email: eg542@cam.ac.uk
Dr Michel Goedert
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Email: mg@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr David Good
Department of Psychology
Topic: Social science approach to the design of new technologies
Email: dg25@cam.ac.uk
Dr Eric Harshfield
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Multi-omics for prediction of vascular dementia and other vascular neurodegenerative diseases, and prioritisation of therapeutic targets for prevention and treatment
Email: eh457@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Olaf Hauk
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: EEG/MEG/fMRI/TMS and eye-tracking studies on reading and semantics; new methods for EEG/MEG source estimation and connectivity analysis
Email: olaf.hauk@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Mr Adel Helmy
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury, Inflammation, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Neurosurgery
Email: aeh33@cam.ac.uk
Dr Richard Henson
Psychiatry
Topic: Using genetic, neuroimaging, demographic, lifestyle and cognitive longitudinal data from healthy adults to understand how ageing affects brain and cognition (www.cam-can.org)
Email: rik.henson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Rita Horvath
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Topic: Improving the understanding of genetic neurological conditions with a focus on mitochondrial disease and inherited neuropathy
Email: rh732@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Greg Jefferis
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: From connectomics to learned and sexually dimorphic behaviours
Email: jefferis@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Sepiedeh Keshavarzi
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Neural Circuits for Spatial Orientation
Email: sk2244@cam.ac.uk
Professor Hugh Markus
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Molecular genetic and imaging techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of stroke with a particular focus on cerebral small vessel disease
Email: hsm32@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Hugh Matthews
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Electrophysiology of vertebrate photo- and chemo- transduction
Email: hrm1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Harvey McMahon
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Clathrin-mediated endocytosis
Email: hmm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Virginia Newcombe
Medicine
Topic: Use of advanced imaging and biomarkers to understand traumatic brain injury.
Email: vfjn2@cam.ac.uk
Professor John O'Brien
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Old age Psychiatry
Email: john.obrien@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Cahir O'Kane
Genetics
Topic: Axonal endoplasmic reticulum in Drosophila, and its roles in health and disease
Email: cjo1003@cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen O'Rahilly
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease
Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Manav Pathania
Department of Oncology
Topic: Brain tumours
Email: mp915@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ole Paulsen
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Network oscillations and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and neocortex
Email: op210@cam.ac.uk
Dr Gareth Pearce
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Animal health and welfare involving wildlife fish and farm animals
Email: gpp28@cam.ac.uk
Dr Virginia Pedicord
Department of Medicine
Topic: Microbiota effects on host physiology
Email: vap33@cam.ac.uk
Dr Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Neuroimmunometabolism
Email: lp429@cam.ac.uk
Dr Kate Plaisted Grant
Department of Psychology
Topic: The cognitive neuroscience of autism
Email: k.plaisted@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stefano Pluchino
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: regenerative neuroimmunology; progressive multiple sclerosis; cellular senescence; mitochondrial metabolism;
Email: spp24@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jasper Poort
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Vision, Learning, Attention, Decision-making, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Eye movements
Email: jp816@cam.ac.uk
Dr Eleanor Raffan
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience & Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Metabolic disease including obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological aspects; animal genetics
Email: er311@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lucy Raymond
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability
Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk
Professor Evan Reid
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: Unravelling the molecular pathology of axon death
Email: ealr4@cam.ac.uk
Professor Frank Reimann
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells
Email: fr222@cam.ac.uk
Dr Timothy Rittman
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Modelling neurodegenerative disorders using neuroimaging and neuropathology data
Email: tr332@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Angela Roberts
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Prefrontal networks involved in the regulation of cognition and emotion
Email: acr4@cam.ac.uk
Dr Hugh Robinson
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Electrophysiology of Cancer Cells, Cancer Neuroscience
Email: hpcr@cam.ac.uk
Professor Chris Rodgers
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre)
Topic: Ultra-high field (7T) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS)
Email: ctr28@cam.ac.uk
Professor David Rubinsztein
CIMR Medical Genetics
Topic: Autophagy and neurodegeneration
Email: dcr1000@cam.ac.uk
Professor Mina Ryten
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: The role of RNA splicing in neurological diseases
Email: mr2022@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen Sawcer
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit)
Topic: The Genetic Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis
Email: sjs1016@cam.ac.uk
Dr William Schafer
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of behaviour
Email: wschafer@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Simone Schnall
Department of Psychology
Topic: The relationship between cognitive and affective processes
Email: ss877@cam.ac.uk
Dr Christof Schwiening
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Neuronal intracellular pH microdomains and their functional importance
Email: cjs30@cam.ac.uk
Professor Jon Simons
Department of Psychology
Topic: Cognitive neuroscience particularly the role of the frontal lobes in the cognitive control of human long-term memory
Email: jss30@cam.ac.uk
Dr Peter Smielewski
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit)
Topic: Mathematical modelling supported monitoring and diagnostics of intracranial dynamics: brain injury and hydrocephalus
Email: ps10011@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ewan Smith
Department of Pharmacology
Topic: Neurobiology of pain / Extremophile biology of the naked mole-rat
Email: es336@cam.ac.uk
Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Mechanisms of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases
Email: mgs11@cam.ac.uk
Professor Peter St George-Hyslop
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: Genetics of human neurodegenerative disease
Email: phs22@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emmanuel A. Stamatakis
Clinical Neurosciences,
Topic: Neurobiology of consciousness: Anaesthesia, Disorders of Consciousness, Psychedelics. Traumatic Brain Injury. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. Brain dynamics and complexity. Neuromodulatory effects of brainstem nuclei on large scale brain networks. Ultra-High-Field MR Imaging.
Email: eas46@cam.ac.uk
Dr Li Su
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Multimodal neuroimaging in dementia
Email: ls514@cam.ac.uk
Dr John Suckling
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Brain imaging methods and analysisPsychiatry, Brain Imaging, Bioinformatics, Cognitive recovery, Neuroscience
Email: js369@cam.ac.uk
Professor Dénes Szücs
Department of Psychology
Topic: Mathematical cognition and development, mathematics anxiety, meta-science, research replicability
Email: ds377@cam.ac.uk
Dr Deborah Talmi
Psychology
Topic: Memory, pain, and emotional cognition. Cognitive, neural and computational mechanism of emotion and motivation and their impact on perception, learning, memory and decision-making;
Email: dt492@cam.ac.uk
Dr Keita Tamura
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Circuit physiology of vision, cognition and memory
Email: kt532@cam.ac.uk
Dr Marco Tripodi
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: The space of actions - Neural circuits for transforming spatial representations into actions
Email: mtripodi@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Kamen Tsvetanov
Clinical Neuroscieces
Topic: The effects of vascular health and brain health on cognitive function in healthy subjects and neurodegenerative disease; multimodal neuroimaging (MRI, DWI, fMRI, MEG, PET, MRS); brain resilience and vulnerability.
Email: kat35@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lorraine Tyler
Department of Psychology
Topic: Neurobiology of language perception ageing
Email: lktyler@csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Dr Jelle van den Ameele
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial genetics, gene expression, chromatin, mitochondrial disease
Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk
Professor Petra Vertes
Psychiatry
Topic: We use computational modelling & concepts from applied maths and network science to understand brain function and dysfunction. We often integrate data across scales - from genes to cells to whole brain and behaviour. We have a particular focus on neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, but also work on more basic questions, including in model organisms.
Email: pv226@cam.ac.uk
Professor Valerie Voon
Psychiatry
Topic: Neuromodulation for psychiatric disorders: surgical and non-invasive modulation towards intelligent design. 2. The influence of incentives and emotionality on self-control and repetitive behaviours: decision making, addiction and compulsivity
Email: vv247@cam.ac.uk
Dr Varun Warrier
Psychiatry
Topic: Neurodevelopmental conditions, genetics, big data, machine learning/AI, neuroimaging genetics, longitudinal data analyses
Email: vw260@cam.ac.ul
Dr Simon White
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistics for neuroscience
Email: simon.white@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Alex Whitworth
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Topic: Investigating mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases
Email: a.whitworth@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Caroline Williams-Gray
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: The role of the immune system in Parkinson’s disease
Email: chm27@cam.ac.uk
Professor Giles Yeo
Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Brain control of appetite & Genetics of body-weight
Email: gshy2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jennifer York
Department of Zoology
Topic: Behavioural ecology & Bio-inspired design
Email: jy364@cam.ac.uk
Dr Patrick Yu-Wai-Man
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Mitochondrial eye diseases; inherited optic neuropathies; gene therapy
Email: py237@cam.ac.uk
Dr Shahid Zaman
Psychiatry
Topic: Dementia in Intellectual disability especially in Down syndrome
Email: shz10@cam.ac.uk
Research supervisors accepting applications from summer students
Dr Amy Ahern
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Topic: Development and evaluation of behavioural interventions for obesity and diabetes; Eating behaviours; Mental health in obesity and type 2 diabetes; Understanding the determinants of initiation and maintenance of health behaviour change
Email: ala34@cam.ac.uk
Dr Lisa Alves
Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Neurosciences
Email: la382@cam.ac.uk
Professor Duncan Astle
Department of Psychiatry and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: Neuroinformatic approaches to understanding neurodevelopmental conditions in childhood
Email: duncan.astle@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Edward Avezov
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Organelle Cell Biology of neurodegeneration
Email: ea347@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Sabine Bahn
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Topic: Identification of a panel of prognostic/diagnostic biomarkers and novel targets related to mental/neurological disorders with an emphasis on schizophrenia bipolar and major depressive disorders. Translation of biomarkers and targets to the clinical environment and the pharmaceutical industry to facilitate early diagnosis and drug discovery efforts
Email: sb209@cam.ac.uk
Dr Gabriel Balmus
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: DNA Damage Response in ageing and neurodegeneration
Email: gb318@cam.ac.uk
Dr Damiano Barone
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Advanced neural interfaces
Email: dgb36@cam.ac.uk
Dr Sumru Bayin
Gurdon Institute, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Neural stem cell biology during development and repair
Email: nsb44@cam.ac.uk
Dr Omer Bayraktar
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Topic: Cellular genetics
Email: ob5@sanger.ac.uk
Professor Paul Bays
Department of Psychology
Topic: Computational study of vision, memory and action
Email: pmb20@cam.ac.uk
Professor David Belin
Department of Psychology
Topic: Emotion regulation, addiction, impulsivity, compulsivity
Email: bdb26@cam.ac.uk
Dr Anne Bertolotti
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Cellular aspects of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases
Email: aberto@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Psychology
Topic: Brain and social cognitive development in human adolescence
Email: sjblakemore@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Professor Clemence Blouet
Clinical Biochemistry
Topic: Brain nutrient sensing for energy and nutritional homeostasis
Email: csb69@cam.ac.uk
Dr Leonardo Bottolo
Department of Medical Genetics
Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq)
Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk
Dr Raymond Bujdoso
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Molecular pathology in prion disease
Email: rb202@cam.ac.uk
Professor Edward Bullmore
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Methods for analysis of brain imaging data
Email: etb23@cam.ac.uk
Dr David Bulmer
Department of Pharmacology
Topic: Translational Neuroscience - use of human tissue to study the mechanisms of visceral pain in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Email: dcb53@cam.ac.uk
Dr Harry Bulstrode
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Topic: Neural Stem Cell and Microenvironment Biology
Email: hb252@cam.ac.uk
Professor Malcolm Burrows
Department of Zoology
Topic: Neural processing in local circuits that control natural limb movements
Email: mb135@cam.ac.uk
Professor Albert Cardona
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Neuroscience
Email: ac2040@cam.ac.uk
Dr Bob Carlyon
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: Cochlear Implants; Pitch Perception; Auditory Scene Analysis
Email: bob.carlyon@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Lucy Cheke
Department of Psychology
Topic: Episodic memory and episodic foresight
Email: lgc23@cam.ac.uk
Professor Patrick Chinnery
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Genetic basis of neurological disorders and particularly mitochondrial diseases.
Email: pfc25@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Hannah Clarke
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Understanding the neural and neurochemical basis of behaviours mediated by the prefrontal cortex and their relevance to psychiatric disorders.
Email: hfc23@cam.ac.uk
Professor of Comparative Cognition, Fellow of the Royal Society Nicola Clayton
Psychology
Topic: Comparative Cognition in Crows, Cuttlefish, Children and Humans
Email: nsc22@cam.ac.uk
Professor Michael Coleman
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair
Topic: Axon degeneration and its roles in neurodegenerative disease
Email: mc469@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Coles
Department of Medicine
Topic: Mechanisms responsible for secondary neuronal injury, their temporal profile, and implications for eventual neurocognitive recovery following head injury (TBI).
Email: jpc44@cam.ac.uk
Dr Anthony Coll
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Molecular control of appetite and obesity
Email: apc36@cam.ac.uk
Professor Marek Czosnyka
Department of Haematology
Topic: Mathematical modelling of intracranial dynamics - brain injury and hydrocephalus
Email: mc141@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Tim Dalgleish
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: Experimental investigation of cognition-emotion relationships; post-traumatic stress; functional theoretical modelling of emotions; depression
Email: tim.dalgleish@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Jeff Dalley
Psychology
Topic: Integration of brain imaging, neuropharmacology and circuit-level interventions to investigate the neurobiological origins of behavioural endophenotypes in neuropsychiatry
Email: jwd20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Gregory Davis
Psychology
Topic: Attention, Consciousness, Security Screening, Social Cognition
Email: gjd1000@cam.ac.uk
Dr Janet Deane
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The role of sphingolipids in health and disease
Email: jed55@cam.ac.uk
Dr Laura Dearden
Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Impact of nutrition in pregnancy on mother and baby hypothalamus
Email: ld454@cam.ac.uk
Dr John Deeks
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: human audition and in particular: pitch perception; speech recognition; auditory grouping and segregation; hearing through cochlear and auditory brainstem implants
Email: john.deeks@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Karen Ersche
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Neuropsychological correlates and neurochemical processes underlying addictive behaviour and resultant therapeutic interventions, brain networks underlying vulnerability and resilience to drug addiction
Email: ke220@cam.ac.uk
Professor Sadaf Farooqi
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity
Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk
Professor Walter Federle
Zoology
Topic: Animal biomechanics, insect-plant interactions
Email: wf222@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia
Email: ef280@cam.ac.uk
Professor Tamsin Ford
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health
Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Paul Freeman
Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Intervertebral disc disease
Email: pf266@cam.ac.uk
Dr Michel Goedert
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Email: mg@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr David Good
Department of Psychology
Topic: Social science approach to the design of new technologies
Email: dg25@cam.ac.uk
Dr Olaf Hauk
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Topic: EEG/MEG/fMRI/TMS and eye-tracking studies on reading and semantics; new methods for EEG/MEG source estimation and connectivity analysis
Email: olaf.hauk@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Dr Richard Henson
Psychiatry
Topic: Using genetic, neuroimaging, demographic, lifestyle and cognitive longitudinal data from healthy adults to understand how ageing affects brain and cognition (www.cam-can.org)
Email: rik.henson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Rita Horvath
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)
Topic: Improving the understanding of genetic neurological conditions with a focus on mitochondrial disease and inherited neuropathy
Email: rh732@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Greg Jefferis
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: From connectomics to learned and sexually dimorphic behaviours
Email: jefferis@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Sepiedeh Keshavarzi
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Neural Circuits for Spatial Orientation
Email: sk2244@cam.ac.uk
Professor Hugh Markus
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Molecular genetic and imaging techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of stroke with a particular focus on cerebral small vessel disease
Email: hsm32@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Dr Hugh Matthews
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Electrophysiology of vertebrate photo- and chemo- transduction
Email: hrm1@cam.ac.uk
Dr Harvey McMahon
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Clathrin-mediated endocytosis
Email: hmm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Susanna Mierau
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Synaptic and network development and cellular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders
Email: sbm33@cam.ac.uk
Professor Amy Milton
Psychology
Topic: Disrupting maladaptive memories contributing to mental health disorders
Email: alm46@cam.ac.uk
Professor John Mollon
Department of Psychology
Topic: Visual perception and its genetic variation. Colour vision. Perception of faces. White matter and communication protocols within the brain. History of optics and of experimental psychology.
Email: jm123@cam.ac.uk
Dr Virginia Newcombe
Medicine
Topic: Use of advanced imaging and biomarkers to understand traumatic brain injury.
Email: vfjn2@cam.ac.uk
Professor John O'Brien
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Old age Psychiatry
Email: john.obrien@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Cahir O'Kane
Genetics
Topic: Axonal endoplasmic reticulum in Drosophila, and its roles in health and disease
Email: cjo1003@cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen O'Rahilly
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease
Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Ole Paulsen
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Network oscillations and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and neocortex
Email: op210@cam.ac.uk
Dr Gareth Pearce
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: Animal health and welfare involving wildlife fish and farm animals
Email: gpp28@cam.ac.uk
Dr Virginia Pedicord
Department of Medicine
Topic: Microbiota effects on host physiology
Email: vap33@cam.ac.uk
Dr Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Neuroimmunometabolism
Email: lp429@cam.ac.uk
Dr Kate Plaisted Grant
Department of Psychology
Topic: The cognitive neuroscience of autism
Email: k.plaisted@psychol.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stefano Pluchino
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: regenerative neuroimmunology; progressive multiple sclerosis; cellular senescence; mitochondrial metabolism;
Email: spp24@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jasper Poort
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Vision, Learning, Attention, Decision-making, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Eye movements
Email: jp816@cam.ac.uk
Dr Eleanor Raffan
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience & Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Metabolic disease including obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological aspects; animal genetics
Email: er311@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lucy Raymond
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability
Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk
Professor Evan Reid
Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: Unravelling the molecular pathology of axon death
Email: ealr4@cam.ac.uk
Professor Frank Reimann
Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells
Email: fr222@cam.ac.uk
Dr Timothy Rittman
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Modelling neurodegenerative disorders using neuroimaging and neuropathology data
Email: tr332@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Angela Roberts
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Prefrontal networks involved in the regulation of cognition and emotion
Email: acr4@cam.ac.uk
Dr Hugh Robinson
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Electrophysiology of Cancer Cells, Cancer Neuroscience
Email: hpcr@cam.ac.uk
Professor Chris Rodgers
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre)
Topic: Ultra-high field (7T) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS)
Email: ctr28@cam.ac.uk
Professor David Rubinsztein
CIMR Medical Genetics
Topic: Autophagy and neurodegeneration
Email: dcr1000@cam.ac.uk
Professor Mina Ryten
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: The role of RNA splicing in neurological diseases
Email: mr2022@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Professor Stephen Sawcer
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit)
Topic: The Genetic Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis
Email: sjs1016@cam.ac.uk
Dr William Schafer
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of behaviour
Email: wschafer@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Simone Schnall
Department of Psychology
Topic: The relationship between cognitive and affective processes
Email: ss877@cam.ac.uk
Dr Christof Schwiening
Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Neuronal intracellular pH microdomains and their functional importance
Email: cjs30@cam.ac.uk
Dr Peter Smielewski
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit)
Topic: Mathematical modelling supported monitoring and diagnostics of intracranial dynamics: brain injury and hydrocephalus
Email: ps10011@cam.ac.uk
Professor Ewan Smith
Department of Pharmacology
Topic: Neurobiology of pain / Extremophile biology of the naked mole-rat
Email: es336@cam.ac.uk
Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Mechanisms of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases
Email: mgs11@cam.ac.uk
Professor Peter St George-Hyslop
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Topic: Genetics of human neurodegenerative disease
Email: phs22@cam.ac.uk
Dr Emmanuel A. Stamatakis
Clinical Neurosciences,
Topic: Neurobiology of consciousness: Anaesthesia, Disorders of Consciousness, Psychedelics. Traumatic Brain Injury. Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. Brain dynamics and complexity. Neuromodulatory effects of brainstem nuclei on large scale brain networks. Ultra-High-Field MR Imaging.
Email: eas46@cam.ac.uk
Dr Li Su
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Multimodal neuroimaging in dementia
Email: ls514@cam.ac.uk
Dr John Suckling
Department of Psychiatry
Topic: Brain imaging methods and analysisPsychiatry, Brain Imaging, Bioinformatics, Cognitive recovery, Neuroscience
Email: js369@cam.ac.uk
Professor Dénes Szücs
Department of Psychology
Topic: Mathematical cognition and development, mathematics anxiety, meta-science, research replicability
Email: ds377@cam.ac.uk
Dr Deborah Talmi
Psychology
Topic: Memory, pain, and emotional cognition. Cognitive, neural and computational mechanism of emotion and motivation and their impact on perception, learning, memory and decision-making;
Email: dt492@cam.ac.uk
Dr Keita Tamura
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Topic: Circuit physiology of vision, cognition and memory
Email: kt532@cam.ac.uk
Dr Marco Tripodi
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Topic: The space of actions - Neural circuits for transforming spatial representations into actions
Email: mtripodi@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Dr Kamen Tsvetanov
Clinical Neuroscieces
Topic: The effects of vascular health and brain health on cognitive function in healthy subjects and neurodegenerative disease; multimodal neuroimaging (MRI, DWI, fMRI, MEG, PET, MRS); brain resilience and vulnerability.
Email: kat35@cam.ac.uk
Professor Lorraine Tyler
Department of Psychology
Topic: Neurobiology of language perception ageing
Email: lktyler@csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Dr Jelle van den Ameele
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial genetics, gene expression, chromatin, mitochondrial disease
Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk
Professor Petra Vertes
Psychiatry
Topic: We use computational modelling & concepts from applied maths and network science to understand brain function and dysfunction. We often integrate data across scales - from genes to cells to whole brain and behaviour. We have a particular focus on neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, but also work on more basic questions, including in model organisms.
Email: pv226@cam.ac.uk
Professor Valerie Voon
Psychiatry
Topic: Neuromodulation for psychiatric disorders: surgical and non-invasive modulation towards intelligent design. 2. The influence of incentives and emotionality on self-control and repetitive behaviours: decision making, addiction and compulsivity
Email: vv247@cam.ac.uk
Dr Varun Warrier
Psychiatry
Topic: Neurodevelopmental conditions, genetics, big data, machine learning/AI, neuroimaging genetics, longitudinal data analyses
Email: vw260@cam.ac.ul
Dr Simon White
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Topic: Statistics for neuroscience
Email: simon.white@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Professor Giles Yeo
Institute of Metabolic Science
Topic: Brain control of appetite & Genetics of body-weight
Email: gshy2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jennifer York
Department of Zoology
Topic: Behavioural ecology & Bio-inspired design
Email: jy364@cam.ac.uk
Dr Patrick Yu-Wai-Man
Clinical Neurosciences
Topic: Mitochondrial eye diseases; inherited optic neuropathies; gene therapy
Email: py237@cam.ac.uk