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 & 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 & Neuroinflammation
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Neurology & Clinical Psychiatry
- Pyschology & Behaviour
- Sensor Perception (including Chemoreception & pain)
Principal Investigators in this theme:
| Name: Dr Richard Adams Topic: Quantitative analysis of morphogenesis using microscopy Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: rja46@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/adams/ Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Amy Ahern 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 Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit Email: ala34@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/amy-ahern/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Franklin Aigbirhio Topic: Novel radiopharmaceuticals and radiochemical methods for molecular imaging Themes: Cancer, Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: fia20@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: www.micl.wbic.cam.ac.uk/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Lisa Alves Topic: Neurosciences Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Veterinary Medicine Email: la382@cam.ac.uk Website: www.vet.cam.ac.uk Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Michael Anderson 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 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: michael.anderson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/michael.anderson Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Duncan Astle Topic: Neuroinformatic approaches to understanding neurodevelopmental conditions in childhood Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychiatry and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: duncan.astle@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.astlelab.com/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Edward Avezov Topic: Organelle Cell Biology of neurodegeneration Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: ea347@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://ukdri.ac.uk/team/edward-avezov Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sabine Bahn 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 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Email: sb209@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.biot.cam.ac.uk/sb/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Gabriel Balmus Topic: DNA Damage Response in ageing and neurodegeneration Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: gb318@cam.ac.uk Website: www.balmuslab.org Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Manohar Bance Topic: hearing and balance disorders, wearables and sensors, inner ear biology Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: mlb59@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.senselab.neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Roger Barker Topic: Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair) Email: rab46@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.thebarkerwilliamsgraylab.co.uk/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Simon Baron Cohen Topic: Autism: causes and interventions Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology (Department of Psychiatry) Email: sb205@cam.ac.uk Website: www.autismresearchcentre.com Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Damiano Barone Topic: Advanced neural interfaces Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: dgb36@cam.ac.uk Website: https://bioelectronics.eng.cam.ac.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Andrew Bateman Topic: neurorehabilitation Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychiatry Email: a.bateman@essex.ac.uk Website: https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/batem29808/andrew-bateman Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Sumru Bayin Topic: Neural stem cell biology during development and repair Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Gurdon Institute, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: nsb44@cam.ac.uk Website: www.bayinlab.com Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Omer Bayraktar Topic: Cellular genetics Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: ob5@sanger.ac.uk Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/bayraktar-group Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Paul Bays Topic: Computational study of vision, memory and action Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: pmb20@cam.ac.uk Website: https://bayslab.com Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Associate Professor Tristan Bekinschtein Topic: Brain integrative mechanism. Neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious processes in sleep anaesthesia and its transitions from wakefulness. Modelling of attention mechanisms. Neurophenomenology. Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: tb419@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?trisbke Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor David Belin Topic: Emotion regulation, addiction, impulsivity, compulsivity Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: bdb26@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-david-belin Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Elia Benito Gutierrez Topic: Evo-Devo Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Zoology Email: eb647@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/elia-benito-gutierrez Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Anne Bertolotti Topic: Cellular aspects of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: aberto@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/a-bertolotti Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Topic: Development of the brain, behaviour and mental health in human adolescence Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: sjblakemore@psychol.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-sarah-jayne-blakemore Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Clemence Blouet Topic: Neuroscience of appetite and body weight control Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology Department: Clinical Biochemistry Email: csb69@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: www.blouetlab.org Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Leonardo Bottolo Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq) Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Medical Genetics Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk Website: https://medgen.medschl.cam.ac.uk/dr-leonardo-bottolo/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Mirjana Bozic Topic: Cognitive neuroscience of language and bilingualism Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychology Email: mb383@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/mirjana-bozic Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Raymond Bujdoso Topic: Molecular pathology in prion disease Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: rb202@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/rb202@cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Edward Bullmore Topic: Methods for analysis of brain imaging data Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: etb23@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?etb23 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr David Bulmer Topic: Translational Neuroscience - use of human tissue to study the mechanisms of visceral pain in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: dcb53@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/bulmer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Malcolm Burrows Topic: Neural processing in local circuits that control natural limb movements Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Zoology Email: mb135@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/malcolm-burrows Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Rudolf Cardinal Topic: Computational psychiatry and clinical informatics Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychiatry Email: rnc1001@cam.ac.uk Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8751-5167 Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Albert Cardona Topic: Neuroscience Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ac2040@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/albert-cardona Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Bob Carlyon Topic: Cochlear Implants; Pitch Perception; Auditory Scene Analysis Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: bob.carlyon@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/bob.carlyon/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Lucy Cheke Topic: Episodic memory and episodic foresight Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: lgc23@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/directory/lucy-cheke Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Patrick Chinnery Topic: Genetic basis of neurological disorders and particularly mitochondrial diseases. Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: pfc25@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pfc25 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Isabel C.H. Clare 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; Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychiatry Email: ichc2@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ciddrg/people/principal-investigators/dr... Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Hannah Clarke Topic: Understanding the neural and neurochemical basis of behaviours mediated by the prefrontal cortex and their relevance to psychiatric disorders. Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: hfc23@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?hfc23 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Menna Clathworthy Topic: Tissue immunity in health and disease Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Medicine Email: mrc38@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/clatworthy/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor of Comparative Cognition, Fellow of the Royal Society Nicola Clayton Topic: Comparative Cognition in Crows, Cuttlefish, Children and Humans Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health Department: Psychology Email: nsc22@cam.ac.uk Website: Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Michael Coleman Topic: Axon degeneration and its roles in neurodegenerative disease Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair Email: mc469@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?mcoleman Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Alasdair Coles Topic: Remyelination Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit) Email: ajc1020@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/jones-coles-group/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jonathan Coles Topic: Mechanisms responsible for secondary neuronal injury, their temporal profile, and implications for eventual neurocognitive recovery following head injury (TBI). Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medicine Email: jpc44@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jpc44 and https://www.med.cam.ac.uk/pace-our-pis-and-associate-pis/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Anthony Coll Topic: Molecular control of appetite and obesity Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: apc36@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AI/Coll/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Andrew Crawford Topic: Sensory transduction in the inner ear Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ac151@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-crawford Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Marek Czosnyka Topic: Mathematical modelling of intracranial dynamics - brain injury and hydrocephalus Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Haematology Email: mc141@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Tim Dalgleish Topic: Experimental investigation of cognition-emotion relationships; post-traumatic stress; functional theoretical modelling of emotions; depression Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: tim.dalgleish@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/tim.dalgleish/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Jeff Dalley Topic: Integration of brain imaging, neuropharmacology and circuit-level interventions to investigate the neurobiological origins of behavioural endophenotypes in neuropsychiatry Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychology Email: jwd20@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jwd20 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Gregory Davis Topic: Attention, Consciousness, Security Screening, Social Cognition Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychology Email: gjd1000@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.viscog.psychol.cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Matt Davis 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 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: matt.davis@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Janet Deane Topic: The role of sphingolipids in health and disease Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: jed55@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-janet-deane Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr John Deeks Topic: human audition and in particular: pitch perception; speech recognition; auditory grouping and segregation; hearing through cochlear and auditory brainstem implants Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: john.deeks@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/john.deeks/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Robbie Duschinsky 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 Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Public Health and Primary Care Email: rd522@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/pcu-group/pcu-senior-academic-staff/ro... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Steve Edgley Topic: Sensorimnotor Neuroscience Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: sae1000@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/steve-edgley Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Karen Ersche Topic: Neuropsychological correlates and neurochemical processes underlying addictive behaviour and resultant therapeutic interventions, brain networks underlying vulnerability and resilience to drug addiction Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: ke220@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ke220 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sadaf Farooqi Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/i-sadaf-f... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Walter Federle Topic: Animal biomechanics, insect-plant interactions Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Zoology Email: wf222@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/walter-federle Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea Topic: Biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: ef280@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?eegea Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Angeleen Fleming Topic: How do protein clearance pathways, such as autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome system, affect neurodegenerative disease severity? Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: af425@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/angeleen-fleming Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Paul Fletcher Topic: Functional MRI studies of episodic memory and associative learning Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pcf22@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Tamsin Ford Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://dev.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Elisa Galliano Topic: Neuronal plasticity, dopamine, olfaction, adult neurogenesis Themes: Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: eg542@cam.ac.uk Website: https://gallianolab.org/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jennifer Gallop Topic: Dynamics and regulation of filopodia Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Biochemistry and Gurdon Institute Email: jlg38@cam.ac.uk Website: www.gallop.group Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Susan Gathercole Topic: Cognition and learning in typical and atypical developmental populations Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychiatry Email: seg57@cam.ac.uk Website: http://calm.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/ Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Michel Goedert Topic: Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: mg@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-goedert Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Susan Golombok Topic: New family forms; parent-child relationships Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health Department: Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research) Email: seg42@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.cfr.cam.ac.uk/directory/SusanGolombok Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr David Good Topic: Social science approach to the design of new technologies Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: dg25@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/dg25@cam.ac.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Usha Goswami Topic: Cognitive development including cognitive neuroscience of language, reading, DLD and dyslexia Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: ucg10@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ucg10@cam.ac.uk Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Ingo Greger Topic: Glutamate receptor structure/function/pharmacology Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: ig@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/ingo-greger/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Iris Hardege Topic: Understanding the fundamentals of neurotransmission and how small brains generate complex behaviours. Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Zoology Email: ih287@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-iris-hardege Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Eric Harshfield Topic: Using multi-omics to predict, diagnose, and prevent risk of stroke and vascular dementia and prioritise therapeutic targets Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: eh457@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/eh457/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Michael Hastings Topic: Circadian neurobiology Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: mha@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/michael-hastings/ Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Olaf Hauk Topic: EEG/MEG/fMRI/TMS and eye-tracking studies on reading and semantics; new methods for EEG/MEG source estimation and connectivity analysis Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: olaf.hauk@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?olafhauk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Berthold Hedwig Topic: Auditory processing and signal generation in insects. Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Zoology Email: bh202@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/neurobiology-acoustic-communic... Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Mr Adel Helmy Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury, Inflammation, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Neurosurgery Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: aeh33@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/neuroinflammation/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Richard Henson 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) Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychiatry Email: rik.henson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.henson/personal/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Allan Herbison Topic: Neural control of fertility Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health Department: PDN Email: aeh36@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/allan-herbison Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Melissa Hines Topic: Gonadal hormone and socialization influences on human brain and behaviour across the lifespan Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health Department: Psychology Email: mh504@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/mh504@cam.ac.uk Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Emeritus Christine Holt Topic: Developmental Neuroscience Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ceh33@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/christine-holt Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Rita Horvath Topic: Improving the understanding of genetic neurological conditions with a focus on mitochondrial disease and inherited neuropathy Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair) Email: rh732@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/horvathlab/dr-rita-horvath/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Claire Hughes Topic: Developmental change from age 2 to age 6 and familial predictors Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research) Email: ch288@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.cfr.cam.ac.uk/directory/ClaireHughes Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Peter Hutchinson Topic: Cerebral metabolism and imaging following acute brain injury Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit) Email: pjah2@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pjah2 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Greg Jefferis Topic: From connectomics to learned and sexually dimorphic behaviours Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: jefferis@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Mark Johnson Topic: Typical at-risk and atypical functional brain development in human infants and toddlers using a variety of different brain imaging cognitive behavioural genetic and computational modelling techniques Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: mj492@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-mark-johnson Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Peter Jones Topic: Epidemiology etiology and developmental dimensions of psychiatric disorders; schizophrenia and the psychoses Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pbj21@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pbj21 Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir Topic: Myelin plasticity and regeneration Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Email: rk385@cam.ac.u Website: Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Sepiedeh Keshavarzi Topic: Neural Circuits for Spatial Orientation Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: sk2244@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.keshavarzilab.com/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Zoe Kourtzi Topic: Neuroscience of lifelong learning and brain plasticity; AI-guided solutions for neurodegenerative and mental health disorders Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: zk240@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.abg.psychol.cam.ac.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Andras Lakatos Topic: Pathomechanistic and therapeutic discoveries at single cell resolution using novel human organoid models of neurodegenerative diseases Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: al291@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/andras-lakatos/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Matthias Landgraf Topic: Nervous system development and plasticity, with focus on critical periods and metabolic byproducts as instructive signals, such as reactive oxygen species. Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Zoology Email: ml10006@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/cell-and-developmental-biology/neural... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Rebecca Lawson Topic: Computational models pharmacology and brain imaging to understand how humans learn to build adaptive expectations about the world around us other people and ourselves Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: rl337@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/rebecca-lawson Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr. Adria LeBoeuf Topic: Evolution and impact of socially transferred materials Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology (incl. Plant Biology), Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Zoology Email: acl79@cam.ac.uk Website: https://leboeuflab.com Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Victoria Leong Topic: Parent-infant social interactions, neural synchrony, social learning Themes: Department: Department of Pediatrics Email: vvec2@cam.ac.uk Website: https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/baby-linc/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sarah Lummis Topic: Neurotransmitter receptors Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: sl120@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/lummis Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Marua Malpetti Topic: Inflammation and Biomarkers in frontotemporal lobar degeneration Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: mm2243@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://ftd.neurology.cam.ac.uk/directory/malpetti Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Tom Manly Topic: The cognitive neuropsychology of adult acquired attentional and executive disorders; attentional/executive function in children; neuropsychological rehabilitation Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: tom.manly@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/tom.manly/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Hugh Markus Topic: Molecular genetic and imaging techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of stroke with a particular focus on cerebral small vessel disease Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: hsm32@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neurology.cam.ac.uk/neurology-unit-research-groups/stroke-re... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor William Marslen Wilson Topic: Cognitive science and neuroscience of language Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: wdm10@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?wmarslen Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Theresa Marteau Topic: Changing behaviour across populations to improve health equitably and sustainably Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care Email: tm388@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/pcu-group/pcu-senior-academic-staff/th... Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Matthew Mason Topic: Function of the middle ear in vertebrates Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Physiology, Development & Neuroscience Email: mjm68@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/matthew-mason Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Hugh Matthews Topic: Electrophysiology of vertebrate photo- and chemo- transduction Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: hrm1@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/matthews/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr William McEwan Topic: Immunity in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: wm305@cam.ac.uk Website: https://mcewan-lab.com/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Harvey McMahon Topic: Clathrin-mediated endocytosis Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: hmm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/h-mcmahon Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Florian Merkle Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular basis of neurological disease using human stem cell-derived and animal model systems Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: fm436@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.merklelab.org/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Su Metcalfe Topic: Use of nanotechnolohy for targeted delivery of delivery of neuroprotective factors Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Surgery Email: smm1001@cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/research-collaboration/ Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Susanna Mierau Topic: Synaptic and network development and cellular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: sbm33@cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/sbm33/ Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Paul Miller Topic: Pharmacological approaches to control central nervous system (CNS) activity Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: pm676@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/miller/summary Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Amy Milton Topic: Disrupting maladaptive memories contributing to mental health disorders Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychology Email: alm46@cam.ac.uk Website: www.cammindlab.com 1 |
| Name: Professor John Mollon 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. Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: jm123@cam.ac.uk Website: http://vision.psychol.cam.ac.uk/jdmollon/publications.html Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Sarah Morgan Topic: Data science for brain sciences (including brain imaging and Natural Language Processing) Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry, Computer Science and Technology Email: sem91@cam.ac.uk Website: https://semorgan.org/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr. Leila Muresan Topic: Microscopy image analysis Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: lam94@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/muresan Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Graham Murray Topic: Causes, mechanisms and treatments of mental disorder. Psychiatric and brain imaging genetics. Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Psychiatry Email: gm285@cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/gm285/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor John O'Brien Topic: Old age Psychiatry Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: john.obrien@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jto27 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Prof Cahir O'Kane Topic: Axonal endoplasmic reticulum in Drosophila, and its roles in health and disease Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Genetics Email: cjo1003@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/research-groups/okane Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Stephen O'Rahilly Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/hod/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr David Parker Topic: Neural circuits Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: djp27@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/parker Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Manav Pathania Topic: Brain tumours Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Clinical Science Department: Department of Oncology Email: mp915@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pathanialab.com/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Ole Paulsen Topic: Network oscillations and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and neocortex Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: op210@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/ole-paulsen Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Gareth Pearce Topic: Animal health and welfare involving wildlife fish and farm animals Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: gpp28@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/gpp28@cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Virginia Pedicord Topic: Microbiota effects on host physiology Themes: Cancer, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Medicine Email: vap33@cam.ac.uk Website: pedicordlab.com Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti Topic: Glia & Neuroinflammation Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology unit) Email: lp429@cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/lperuzzotti/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Kate Plaisted Grant Topic: The cognitive neuroscience of autism Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: k.plaisted@psychol.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/kcp1000@cam.ac.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Stefano Pluchino Topic: regenerative neuroimmunology; progressive multiple sclerosis; cellular senescence; mitochondrial metabolism; Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: spp24@cam.ac.uk Website: www.pluchinolab.org Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jasper Poort Topic: Vision, Learning, Attention, Decision-making, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Eye movements Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: jp816@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/svl Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Eleanor Raffan Topic: Metabolic disease including obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological aspects; animal genetics Themes: Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience & Institute of Metabolic Science Email: er311@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/eleanor-raffan Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Eleanor Raffan Topic: Metabolic disease and obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological insights from spontaneous veterinary models of disease. Also interspecies communication! Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: PDN Email: er311@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/eleanor-raffan Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Lucy Raymond Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-lucy-raymond Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Evan Reid Topic: Unravelling the molecular pathology of axon death Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: ealr4@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-evan-reid Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Frank Reimann Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: fr222@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AffiliatePI/Reiman.php Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jing Ren Topic: Developmental assembly of the serotonin system Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: jren@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/ren/#foogallery-32/i:559 Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Jason Rentfrow Topic: Personality and Individual Differences Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: pjr39@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psd.psychol.cam.ac.uk/team-members/dr-jason-rentfrow-pi Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Timothy Rittman Topic: Modelling neurodegenerative disorders using neuroimaging and neuropathology data Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: tr332@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: www.rittman.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Trevor Robbins Topic: Fronto-striatal systems and the neurochemical control of behaviour: Relevance for human impulsive-compulsive disorders Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychology Email: twr2@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-trevor-w-robbins-cbe-frs-f... Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Angela Roberts Topic: Prefrontal networks involved in the regulation of cognition and emotion Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: acr4@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/angela-roberts Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr. Hugh Robinson Topic: Electrophysiology of Cancer Cells, Cancer Neuroscience Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: hpcr@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/robinson/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Chris Rodgers Topic: Ultra-high field (7T) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre) Email: ctr28@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ctr28 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor David Rowitch Topic: Glial Cells and Response to Injury Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Paediatrics Email: dhr25@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/rowitch Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor David Rubinsztein Topic: Autophagy and neurodegeneration Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: CIMR Medical Genetics Email: dcr1000@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-david-rubinsztein-fmedsci-frs Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Mina Ryten Topic: The role of RNA splicing in neurological diseases Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: mr2022@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: www.rytenlab Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Barbara Sahakian Topic: Clinical neuroscience and neuropsychiatry Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: bjs1001@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?barbara Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Stephen Sawcer Topic: The Genetic Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit) Email: sjs1016@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ssawcer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr William Schafer Topic: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of behaviour Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: wschafer@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/w-schafer Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Simone Schnall Topic: The relationship between cognitive and affective processes Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: ss877@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ss877@cam.ac.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Wolfram Schultz Topic: Reward and Decision-making Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ws42@pm.me Website: www.wolframschultz.org Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Christof Schwiening Topic: Neuronal intracellular pH microdomains and their functional importance Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: cjs30@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?cjs30 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Jon Simons Topic: Cognitive neuroscience particularly the role of the frontal lobes in the cognitive control of human long-term memory Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: jss30@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.memlab.psychol.cam.ac.uk/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr William Skylark Topic: Psychology Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: w.j.skylark@cantab.net Website: www.skylarkresearch.net Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Peter Smielewski Topic: Mathematical modelling supported monitoring and diagnostics of intracranial dynamics: brain injury and hydrocephalus Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit) Email: ps10011@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/brain-physics-lab/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Ewan Smith Topic: Neurobiology of pain / Extremophile biology of the naked mole-rat Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: es336@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Smith Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini Topic: Mechanisms of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: mgs11@cam.ac.uk Website: https://spillantinilab.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Peter St George-Hyslop Topic: Genetics of human neurodegenerative disease Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: phs22@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-peter-st-george-hyslop-frs Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Emmanuel A. Stamatakis 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. Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences, Email: eas46@cam.ac.uk Website: https://bit.ly/ccigcambridge Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Li Su Topic: Multimodal neuroimaging in dementia Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: ls514@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.aicn-group.com Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr John Suckling Topic: Brain imaging methods and analysisPsychiatry, Brain Imaging, Bioinformatics, Cognitive recovery, Neuroscience Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: js369@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?js369 Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Dénes Szücs Topic: Mathematical cognition and development, mathematics anxiety, meta-science, research replicability Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: ds377@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/denes-szucs Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Deborah Talmi 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; Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychology Email: dt492@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-deborah-talmi Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Keita Tamura Topic: Circuit physiology of vision, cognition and memory Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: kt532@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/research/neuroscience/tamura-lab-circuit-physi... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Alana Thackray Topic: Molecular pathology of prion diseases, viral infection and immunity, infectious diseases Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: amt27@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/amt27%40cam.ac.uk Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Marco Tripodi Topic: The space of actions - Neural circuits for transforming spatial representations into actions Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: mtripodi@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/tripodi/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Kamen Tsvetanov 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. Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: kat35@cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/kat35/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Kamen Tsvetanov 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. Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neuroscieces Email: kat35@cam.ac.uk Website: https://neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/member/kat35/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Lorraine Tyler Topic: Neurobiology of language perception ageing Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: lktyler@csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/lkt10@cam.ac.uk Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jelle van den Ameele Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial genetics, gene expression, chromatin, mitochondrial disease Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology, Clinical Science Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/van-den-ameele-group Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sander van der Linden Topic: Judgment and Decision-Making, Social Influence, Attitudes, Persuasion Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychology Email: sander.vanderlinden@psychol.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/sander-van-der-linden Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Petra Vertes Topic: Systems and Computational Neuroscience Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pv226@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/groups/systems-and-computational-neuros... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Valerie Voon 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 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychiatry Email: vv247@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/groups/interventional-neuropsychiatry-g.... https://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/people/principal-investigators/professo... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Simon White Topic: Statistics for neuroscience Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit Email: simon.white@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/ Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Alex Whitworth Topic: Investigating mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Email: a.whitworth@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/whitworth-group Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Paul Wilkinson Topic: Epidemiology of self-harm; undergraduate medical education research Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pow12@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pwilkinson Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Caroline Williams-Gray Topic: The role of the immune system in Parkinson’s disease Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: chm27@cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.thebarkerwilliamsgraylab.co.uk/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Geoffrey Woods Topic: Human pain genetics Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: CIMR Email: cw347@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-geoff-woods Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Jennifer York Topic: Behavioural ecology & Bio-inspired design Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Department of Zoology Email: jy364@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/jenny-york Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Patrick Yu-Wai-Man Topic: Mitochondrial eye diseases; inherited optic neuropathies; gene therapy Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: py237@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/mitocamb/meet-our-staff/patr... Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Shahid Zaman Topic: Neurodegeneration & ageing in Down syndrome Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Clinical Science Department: Psychiatry Email: shz10@medschl.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ciddrg/ Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Shahid Zaman Topic: Dementia in Intellectual disability especially in Down syndrome Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Department: Psychiatry Email: shz10@cam.ac.uk Website: https://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ciddrg/ Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
