Principal investigators in theme:
| Name: Dr Richard Adams Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: rja46@cam.ac.uk Topic: Quantitative analysis of morphogenesis using microscopy Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/adams/ Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Amy Ahern Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit Email: ala34@cam.ac.uk Topic: Development and evaluation of behavioural interventions for obesity and diabetes; Understanding the determinants of initiation and maintenance of health behaviour change in obesity and diabetes Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/amy-ahern/ Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Michael Anderson Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: michael.anderson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk 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 Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/michael.anderson Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Duncan Astle Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: duncan.astle@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Neuroinformatic approaches to understanding neurodevelopmental conditions in childhood Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/duncan.astle/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Edward Avezov Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences UK Dementia Research Institute Email: ea347@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Endoplasmic Reticulum function-structure in neuronal (patho)physiology Website: http://avezov-lab.neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sabine Bahn Department: Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Email: sb209@cam.ac.uk 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 Website: http://www.biot.cam.ac.uk/sb/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Gabriel Balmus Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: gb318@cam.ac.uk Topic: DNA Damage Response in ageing and neurodegeneration Website: www.balmuslab.org Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Manohar Bance Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: mlb59@cam.ac.uk Topic: Disorders of Hearing and Balance, Surgery of the Ear Website: https://www.senselab.neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Roger Barker Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair) Email: rab46@cam.ac.uk Topic: Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases Website: http://www.thebarkerwilliamsgraylab.co.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Simon Baron Cohen Department: Department of Psychology (Department of Psychiatry) Email: sb205@cam.ac.uk Topic: Autism: causes and interventions Website: www.autismresearchcentre.com Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour |
| Name: Professor Andrew Bateman Department: Psychiatry Email: a.bateman@essex.ac.uk Topic: neurorehabilitation Website: https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/batem29808/andrew-bateman Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Omer Bayraktar Department: Wellcome Sanger Institute Email: ob5@sanger.ac.uk Topic: Cellular genetics Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/bayraktar-group Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Paul Bays Department: Department of Psychology Email: pmb20@cam.ac.uk Topic: Computational study of vision, memory and action Website: https://bayslab.com Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Tristan Bekinschtein Department: Department of Psychology Email: tb419@cam.ac.uk Topic: Brain integrative mechanism. Neural mechanisms of conscious and unconscious processes in sleep anaesthesia and its transitions from wakefulness. Modelling of attention mechanisms. Neurophenomenology. Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?trisbke Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor David Belin Department: Department of Psychology Email: bdb26@cam.ac.uk Topic: Emotion regulation, addiction, impulsivity, compulsivity Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-david-belin Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Elia Benito Gutierrez Department: Zoology Email: eb647 Topic: Evo-Devo Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/elia-benito-gutierrez Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Anne Bertolotti Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: aberto@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Cellular aspects of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/a-bertolotti Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Department: Department of Psychology Email: sjblakemore@psychol.cam.ac.uk Topic: Development of the brain, behaviour and mental health in human adolescence Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-sarah-jayne-blakemore Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Clemence Blouet Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: csb69@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Characterizing how nutrients are detected by the brain to maintain energy homeostasis Website: https://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/clemence-... Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Leonardo Bottolo Department: Department of Medical Genetics Email: lb664@cam.ac.uk Topic: Computational methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and single-cell Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (scATAC-seq) Website: https://medgen.medschl.cam.ac.uk/dr-leonardo-bottolo/ Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Mirjana Bozic Department: Department of Psychology Email: mb383@cam.ac.uk Topic: language as a cognitive and a neural system Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/directory/mb383@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Soren Brage Department: MRC Epidemiology Unit Email: soren.brage@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk Topic: Physical activity epidemiology Website: https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/soren-brage/ Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Guy Brown Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: gcb3@cam.ac.uk Topic: Microglia, neuroinflammation & neurodegeneration Website: www.microglia.info/guybrown Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Clare Bryant Department: Department of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Email: ceb27@cam.ac.uk Topic: Pattern Recognition Receptor signalling in inflammatory and infectious disease Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/ceb27%40cam.ac.uk Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Clare Buckley Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: ceb85@cam.ac.uk Topic: Our lab uses optogenetics and live confocal imaging of the zebrafish neural tube and mouse embryonic stem cells to uncover the mechanisms that coordinate polarisation and morphogenesis of epithelial tubes during development. Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/clare-buckley Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Raymond Bujdoso Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: rb202@cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular pathology in prion disease Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/rb202@cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Edward Bullmore Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: etb23@cam.ac.uk Topic: Methods for analysis of brain imaging data Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?etb23 Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr David Bulmer Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: dcb53@cam.ac.uk Topic: Translational Neuroscience - use of human tissue to study the mechanisms of visceral pain in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/bulmer Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Malcolm Burrows Department: Department of Zoology Email: mb135@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neural processing in local circuits that control natural limb movements Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/malcolm-burrows Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Emma Cahill Department: Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: enc22@cam.ac.uk Topic: Mechanisms underlying memories of fear and anxiety Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?enc22 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Rudolf Cardinal Department: Psychiatry Email: rnc1001@cam.ac.uk Topic: Computational psychiatry and clinical informatics Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8751-5167 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Albert Cardona Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ac2040@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neuroscience Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/albert-cardona Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Bob Carlyon Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: bob.carlyon@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Cochlear Implants; Pitch Perception; Auditory Scene Analysis Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/bob.carlyon/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Lucy Cheke Department: Department of Psychology Email: lgc23@cam.ac.uk Topic: Episodic memory and episodic foresight Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/directory/lucy-cheke Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Patrick Chinnery Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: pfc25@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Genetic basis of neurological disorders and particularly mitochondrial diseases. Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pfc25 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Isabel C.H. Clare Department: Psychiatry Email: ichc2@medschl.cam.ac.uk 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; Website: http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ciddrg/people/principal-investigators/dr... Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Hannah Clarke Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: hfc23@cam.ac.uk Topic: Understanding the neural and neurochemical basis of behaviours mediated by the prefrontal cortex and their relevance to psychiatric disorders. Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?hfc23 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Menna Clathworthy Department: Department of Medicine Email: mrc38@cam.ac.uk Topic: Tissue immunity in health and disease Website: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/clatworthy/ Themes: Cancer, Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor FRS Nicola Clayton Department: Psychology Email: nsc22@cam.ac.uk Topic: The evolution and development of complex cognition in crows, cuttlefish and humans Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/nsc22@cam.ac.uk Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Michael Coleman Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair Email: mc469@cam.ac.uk Topic: Axon degeneration and its roles in neurodegenerative disease Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?mcoleman Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Alasdair Coles Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit) Email: ajc1020@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Remyelination in humans: promoting endogenous brain repair Website: https://www-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/jones-coles-group/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jonathan Coles Department: Department of Medicine Email: jpc44@wbic.cam.ac.uk Topic: Describing the pathophysiology of head injury and optimising patient outcome Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jpc44 Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Anthony Coll Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: apc36@cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular control of appetite and obesity Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AI/Coll/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Bill Colledge Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: whc23@cam.ac.uk Topic: Mammalian reproductive physiology using transgenic mice Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/colledge/ Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Andrew Crawford Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ac151@cam.ac.uk Topic: Sensory transduction in the inner ear Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/andrew-crawford Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Marek Czosnyka Department: Department of Haematology Email: mc141@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Mathematical modelling of intracranial dynamics - brain injury and hydrocephalus Website: http://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Tim Dalgleish Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: tim.dalgleish@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Experimental investigation of cognition-emotion relationships; post-traumatic stress; functional theoretical modelling of emotions; depression Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/tim.dalgleish/ Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jeff Dalley Department: Department of Psychology (Department of Psychiatry) Email: jwd20@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neuromodulation and psychopharmacology of fronto-striatal systems; individual differences; translational neuroscience Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/jwd20@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Gregory Davis Department: Psychology Email: gjd1000@cam.ac.uk Topic: Visual attention, Consciousness, Visual Cognition, Social Cognition Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/gjd1000@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Matt Davis Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: matt.davis@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Neuro-anatomical and computational accounts of language comprehension; spoken and written word recognition; connectionist modelling; fMRI Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/ Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Janet Deane Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: jed55@cam.ac.uk Topic: The role of sphingolipids in health and disease Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-janet-deane Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr John Deeks Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: john.deeks@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: human audition and in particular: pitch perception; speech recognition; auditory grouping and segregation; hearing through cochlear and auditory brainstem implants Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/john.deeks/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Steve Edgley Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: sae1000@cam.ac.uk Topic: Sensorimnotor Neuroscience Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/steve-edgley Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Karen Ersche Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: ke220@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neuropsychological correlates and neurochemical processes underlying addictive behaviour and resultant therapeutic interventions, brain networks underlying vulnerability and resilience to drug addiction Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ke220 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sadaf Farooqi Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: isf20@cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular mechanisms in human obesity Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/Farooqi Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Walter Federle Department: Zoology Email: wf222@cam.ac.uk Topic: Animal biomechanics, insect-plant interactions Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/walter-federle Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: ef280@cam.ac.uk Topic: Biological and clinical aspects of chronic schizophrenia Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?eegea Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Angeleen Fleming Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: Af425@cam.ac.uk Topic: How protein clearance pathways such as autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome system affect disease severity. Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/angeleen-fleming Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Paul Fletcher Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pcf22@cam.ac.uk Topic: Functional MRI studies of episodic memory and associative learning Website: http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Tamsin Ford Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: tjf52@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Interventional epidemiology - children and young people's mental health Website: https://dev.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Robin Franklin Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research) Email: rjf1000@cam.ac.uk Topic: Cellular and molecular basis of CNS repair mechanisms Website: http://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/researchers/principal-investigators/press... Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Elisa Galliano Department: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: eg542@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neuroscience: neuronal plasticity, olfaction, dopamine, adult neurogenesis Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/elisa-galliano Themes: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Susan Gathercole Department: Psychiatry Email: seg57@cam.ac.uk Topic: Cognition and learning in typical and atypical developmental populations Website: http://calm.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Michel Goedert Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: mg@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/m-goedert Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Susan Golombok Department: Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research) Email: seg42@cam.ac.uk Topic: New family forms; parent-child relationships Website: http://www.cfr.cam.ac.uk/directory/SusanGolombok Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr David Good Department: Department of Psychology Email: dg25@cam.ac.uk Topic: Social science approach to the design of new technologies Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/dg25@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Usha Goswami Department: Department of Psychology Email: ucg10@cam.ac.uk Topic: Cognitive development including cognitive neuroscience of language, reading, DLD and dyslexia Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ucg10@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Ingo Greger Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: ig@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Glutamate-gated ion channels: biogenesis and trafficking Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/i-greger Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Michael Hastings Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: mha@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular neurobiology of circadian timing Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/m-hastings Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Olaf Hauk Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: olaf.hauk@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: EEG/MEG/fMRI/TMS and eye-tracking studies on reading and semantics; new methods for EEG/MEG source estimation and connectivity analysis Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?olafhauk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Berthold Hedwig Department: Department of Zoology Email: bh202@cam.ac.uk Topic: Auditory processing and signal generation in insects. Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/neurobiology-acoustic-communic... Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Mr Adel Helmy Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: aeh33@cam.ac.uk Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury, Inflammation, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, Neurosurgery Website: https://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/neuroinflammation/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Rik Henson Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: rik.henson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Systems neuroscience of human memory and its disorders in acquired amnesia, aging and dementia. Neuroimaging and statistical analysis methods. Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.henson/personal/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Allan Herbison Department: PDN Email: aeh36@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neuroendocrinology Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/allan-herbison Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Melissa Hines Department: Psychology Email: mh504@cam.ac.uk Topic: Gonadal hormone and socialization influences on human brain and behaviour across the lifespan Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/mh504@cam.ac.uk Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Women's Health Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Emeritus Christine Holt Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ceh33@cam.ac.uk Topic: Developmental Neuroscience Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/christine-holt Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Rita Horvath Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair) Email: rh732@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Improving the understanding of genetic neurological conditions with a focus on mitochondrial disease and inherited neuropathy Website: https://www-neurosciences.medschl.cam.ac.uk/horvathlab/dr-rita-horvath/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Claire Hughes Department: Department of Psychology (Centre for Family Research) Email: ch288@cam.ac.uk Topic: Developmental change from age 2 to age 6 and familial predictors Website: http://www.cfr.cam.ac.uk/directory/ClaireHughes Themes: Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Peter Hutchinson Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit) Email: pjah2@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Cerebral metabolism and imaging following acute brain injury Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pjah2 Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Greg Jefferis Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: jefferis@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: From connectomics to learned and sexually dimorphic behaviours Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Mark Johnson Department: Department of Psychology Email: mj492@cam.ac.uk 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 Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-mark-johnson Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Peter Jones Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pbj21@cam.ac.uk Topic: Epidemiology etiology and developmental dimensions of psychiatric disorders; schizophrenia and the psychoses Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pbj21 Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Epidemiology and Public Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Ragnhildur Karadottir Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: rk385@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes and their progenitor cells in both health and disease Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/rk385@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Developmental and Sensory Neurobiology David Keays Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Email: dak55@cam.ac.uk Topic: Epilepsy, Autism, Microcephaly, Microtubules, Magnetoreception, Monotremes. Website: keayslab.org Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Zoe Kourtzi Department: Department of Psychology Email: zk240@cam.ac.uk Topic: Human neuroscience of lifelong learning and brain plasticity; AI-guided solutions for neurodegenerative and mental health disorders Website: https://www.abg.psychol.cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Andras Lakatos Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: al291@cam.ac.uk Topic: Pathomechanistic and therapeutic discoveries at single cell resolution using novel human organoid models of neurodegenerative diseases Website: http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/andras-lakatos/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Matthias Landgraf Department: Department of Zoology Email: ml10006@cam.ac.uk Topic: Nervous system development and plasticity, with focus on critical periods and metabolic byproducts as instructive signals, such as reactive oxygen species. Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/cell-and-developmental-biology/neural... Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Rebecca Lawson Department: Department of Psychology Email: rl337@cam.ac.uk 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 Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/rebecca-lawson Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Michael Lee Department: Department of Medicine (Division of Anaesthesia) Email: ml404@cam.ac.uk Topic: Clinical neuroscience: mechanisms of unusual or rare pain susceptibility or resilience in humans Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/https://www.neuroscience.ca... Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Victoria Leong Department: Department of Pediatrics Email: vvec2@cam.ac.uk Topic: Parent-infant social interactions, neural synchrony, social learning Website: http://www.baby-linc.psychol.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sarah Lummis Department: Department of Biochemistry Email: sl120@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neurotransmitter receptors Website: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/lummis Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Giovanna Mallucci Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences and UK Dementia Research Institute at Cambridge Email: gm522@cam.ac.uk Topic: Mechanisms and prevention of neurodegeneration Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gm522 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Tom Manly Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: tom.manly@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: The cognitive neuropsychology of adult acquired attentional and executive disorders; attentional/executive function in children; neuropsychological rehabilitation Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/tom.manly/ Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Hugh Markus Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: hsm32@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular genetic and imaging techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of stroke with a particular focus on cerebral small vessel disease Website: https://www.neurology.cam.ac.uk/neurology-unit-research-groups/stroke-re... Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor William Marslen Wilson Department: Department of Psychology Email: wdm10@cam.ac.uk Topic: Cognitive science and neuroscience of language Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?wmarslen Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Theresa Marteau Department: Department of Public Health and Primary Care Email: tm388@cam.ac.uk Topic: Changing behaviour across populations to improve health equitably and sustainably Website: https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/pcu-group/pcu-senior-academic-staff/th... Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr L. Miguel Martins Department: MRC Toxicology Unit Email: lm795@mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk Topic: Mitochondria and cell death regulation following toxic injury Website: https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/research/l-m-martins-programme Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Matthew Mason Department: Physiology, Development & Neuroscience Email: mjm68@cam.ac.uk Topic: Function of the middle ear in vertebrates Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/matthew-mason Themes: Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Hugh Matthews Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: hrm1@cam.ac.uk Topic: Electrophysiology of vertebrate photo- and chemo- transduction Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/matthews/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr William McEwan Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: wm305@cam.ac.uk Topic: Immunity in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions Website: https://mcewan-lab.com/ Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Harvey McMahon Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: hmm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Clathrin-mediated endocytosis Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/h-mcmahon Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Florian Merkle Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: fm436@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Understanding the cellular and molecular basis of neurological disease using human stem cell-derived and animal model systems Website: http://www.merklelab.org/ Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Su Metcalfe Department: Department of Surgery Email: smm1001@cam.ac.uk Topic: Use of nanotechnology to deliver growth factors in vivo to promote brain repair Website: https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/Networkdirectory/smm1001%40cam.ac.uk Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Emmanouil Metzakopian Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences UK Dementia Research Institute Email: em698@cam.ac.uk Topic: To boost connect and revolutionise Dementia discovery science and to accelerate finding new ways to diagnose and treat Dementia effectively Website: https://ukdri.ac.uk/centres/cambridge Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Susanna Mierau Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: sbm33@cam.ac.uk Topic: Synaptic and network development and cellular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?sbm33 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Paul Miller Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: pm676@cam.ac.uk Topic: Pharmacological approaches to control central nervous system (CNS) activity Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/miller/summary Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Amy Milton Department: Department of Psychology Email: alm46@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neurochemical mechanisms underlying appetitive memory reconsolidation Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/alm46@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor John Mollon Department: Department of Psychology Email: j.mollon@psychol.cam.ac.uk Topic: Visual perception. Colour vision. Perception of faces. Genetic variations in perception. History of optics and of experimental psychology. Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/jm123@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Sarah Morgan Department: Department of Psychiatry, Computer Science and Technology Email: sem91@cam.ac.uk Topic: Data science for brain sciences (including brain imaging and Natural Language Processing) Website: https://semorgan.org/ Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Jenny Morton Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ajm41@cam.ac.uk Topic: Mechanisms underlying neurological dysfunction in Huntington's disease Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ajm41 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Leila Muresan Department: PDN Email: lam94@cam.ac.uk Topic: Microscopy image analysis Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/muresan Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Organisms, Evolution and Ecology, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor John O'Brien Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: john.obrien@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Old age Psychiatry Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jto27 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Cahir O'Kane Department: Department of Genetics Email: cjo1003@cam.ac.uk Topic: Axonal endoplasmic reticulum in Drosophila, and its roles in health and disease Website: https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/research-groups/okane Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Stephen O'Rahilly Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: The endocrine control of metabolism in health and disease Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/hod/ Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr David Parker Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: djp27@cam.ac.uk Topic: Synaptic plasticity in spinal cord Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/parker Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Manav Pathania Department: Department of Oncology Email: mp915@cam.ac.uk Topic: Brain tumours Website: https://www.pathanialab.com/ Themes: Cancer, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Ole Paulsen Department: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Email: op210@cam.ac.uk Topic: Network oscillations and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and neocortex Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/ole-paulsen Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Gareth Pearce Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: gpp28@cam.ac.uk Topic: Animal health and welfare involving wildlife fish and farm animals Website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/gpp28@cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Virginia Pedicord Department: Department of Medicine Email: vap33@cam.ac.uk Topic: Microbiota effects on host physiology Website: https://www.citiid.cam.ac.uk/virginia-pedicord/ |
| Name: Professor Anna Philpott Department: Department of Oncology Email: ap113@cam.ac.uk Topic: Developmental biology cell cycle cancer neurogenesis Website: http://www.oncology.cam.ac.uk/research/groupleaders/philpott.html Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Kate Plaisted Grant Department: Department of Psychology Email: k.plaisted@psychol.cam.ac.uk Topic: The cognitive neuroscience of autism Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/kcp1000@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Stefano Pluchino Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: spp24@cam.ac.uk Topic: regenerative neuroimmunology; progressive multiple sclerosis; cellular senescence; mitochondrial metabolism; Website: www.pluchinolab.org Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jasper Poort Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: jp816@cam.ac.uk Topic: Vision, Learning, Attention, Decision-making, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Eye movements Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/svl Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Eleanor Raffan Department: Physiology, Development and Neuroscience & Institute of Metabolic Science Email: er311@cam.ac.uk Topic: Metabolic disease including obesity - molecular, genetic and physiological aspects; animal genetics Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/eleanor-raffan Themes: Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Lucy Raymond Department: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: flr24@cam.ac.uk Topic: The genetic basis of intellectual disability Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-lucy-raymond Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Evan Reid Department: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: ealr4@cam.ac.uk Topic: Unravelling the molecular pathology of axon death Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-evan-reid Themes: Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Frank Reimann Department: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science) Email: fr222@cam.ac.uk Topic: Stimulus-secretion coupling in gut neuroendocrine cells Website: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/AffiliatePI/Reiman.php Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jing Ren Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: jren@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Developmental assembly of the serotonin system Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/ren/#foogallery-32/i:559 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Jason Rentfrow Department: Department of Psychology Email: pjr39@cam.ac.uk Topic: Personality and Individual Differences Website: https://www.psd.psychol.cam.ac.uk/team-members/dr-jason-rentfrow-pi Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no PhD students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential summer students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Trevor Robbins Department: Psychology Email: twr2@cam.ac.uk Topic: Fronto-striatal systems and the neurochemical control of behaviour: Relevance for human impulsive-compulsive disorders Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-trevor-w-robbins-cbe-frs-f... Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Angela Roberts Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: acr4@cam.ac.uk Topic: Prefrontal networks involved in the regulation of cognition and emotion Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/angela-roberts Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Hugh Robinson Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: hpcr@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neural dynamics synaptic integration and functional analysis of cell types in the cortex Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/robinson/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Chris Rodgers Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre) Email: ctr28@cam.ac.uk Topic: Ultra-high field (7T) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ctr28 Themes: Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr James Rowe Department: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Email: james.rowe@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: The relationship between motor and cognitive processes in healthy subjects and neurodegenerative disease; overlap between disorders of movement and cognition; functional changes associated with disease; assessment of potential surrogate indices of the efficacy of candidate therapies; cognitive architecture for response selection and voluntary action; fMRI PET rTMS and MEG. Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/james.rowe/ Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor David Rowitch Department: Department of Paediatrics Email: dhr25@cam.ac.uk Topic: Glial Cells and Response to Injury Website: https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/research/pis/rowitch Themes: Cancer, Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor David Rubinsztein Department: CIMR Email: dcr1000@cam.ac.uk Topic: autophagy and neurodegeneration Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-david-rubinsztein-fmedsci-frs Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Barbara Sahakian Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: bjs1001@cam.ac.uk Topic: Clinical neuroscience and neuropsychiatry Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?barbara Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Stephen Sawcer Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology Unit) Email: sjs1016@cam.ac.uk Topic: The Genetic Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ssawcer Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr William Schafer Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: wschafer@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of behaviour Website: http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/n-to-s/w-schafer Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Simone Schnall Department: Department of Psychology Email: ss877@cam.ac.uk Topic: The relationship between cognitive and affective processes Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ss877@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Wolfram Schultz Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: ws234@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neurophysiology of the reward systems Website: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/wolfram-schultz Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Christof Schwiening Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: cjs30@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neuronal intracellular pH microdomains and their functional importance Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?cjs30 Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Jon Simons Department: Department of Psychology Email: jss30@cam.ac.uk Topic: Cognitive neuroscience particularly the role of the frontal lobes in the cognitive control of human long-term memory Website: http://www.memlab.psychol.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr William Skylark Department: Department of Psychology Email: w.j.skylark@cantab.net Topic: Psychology Website: www.skylarkresearch.net Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Piotr Smielewski Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurosurgery Unit) Email: ps10011@medschl.cam.ac.uk Topic: Computerised monitoring and diagnostics of intracranial dynamics: brain injury and hydrocephalus Website: http://www.neurosurg.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Ewan Smith Department: Department of Pharmacology Email: es336@cam.ac.uk Topic: Pain; chemoreception; neuronal excitabilityPain mechanisms / naked mole-rat extremophile biology Website: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Smith Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Debra Spencer Department: Department of Psychology Email: ds356@cam.ac.uk Topic: Gender development Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ds356%40cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences Email: mgs11@cam.ac.uk Topic: Mechanisms of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases Website: https://spillantinilab.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Peter St George-Hyslop Department: Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: phs22@cam.ac.uk Topic: Genetics of human neurodegenerative disease Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-peter-st-george-hyslop-frs Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Li Su Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: ls514@cam.ac.uk Topic: Computational psychiatry focusing on dementia neuroimaging analysis methods and cognitive modelling Website: https://www.aicn-group.com Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr John Suckling Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: js369@cam.ac.uk Topic: Brain imaging methods and analysisPsychiatry, Brain Imaging, Bioinformatics, Cognitive recovery, Neuroscience Website: https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?js369 Themes: Cancer, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Dénes Szücs Department: Department of Psychology Email: ds377@cam.ac.uk Topic: Mathematical cognition and development, mathematics anxiety, meta-science, reseach replicability Website: https://www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/denes-szucs Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Deborah Talmi Department: Psychology Email: dt492@cam.ac.uk 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; Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-deborah-talmi Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Robert Tasker Department: Department of Paediatrics Email: rct31@cam.ac.uk Topic: Head-injury in childhood: long-term cognitive and structural deficits Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?rct31181 Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Alana Thackray Department: Department of Veterinary Medicine Email: amt27@cam.ac.uk Topic: Molecular pathology of prion diseases, viral infection and immunity, infectious diseases Website: https://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/amt27%40cam.ac.uk Themes: Infection and Immunity, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Marco Tripodi Department: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Email: mtripodi@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Topic: The space of actions - Neural circuits for transforming spatial representations into actions Website: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/tripodi/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Lorraine Tyler Department: Department of Psychology Email: lktyler@csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk Topic: Neurobiology of language perception ageing Website: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/lkt10@cam.ac.uk Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jelle van den Ameele Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Email: jv361@cam.ac.uk Topic: Neural stem cell metabolism, mitochondrial disease, chromatin regulation during brain development Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/van-den-ameele-group Themes: Reproduction, Development and Lifelong Health, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Metabolic Medicine, Integrative and Comparative Physiology Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Sander van der Linden Department: Department of Psychology Email: sander.vanderlinden@psychol.cam.ac.uk Topic: Judgment and Decision-Making, Social Influence, Attitudes, Persuasion Website: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/sander-van-der-linden Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Petra Vertes Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pv226@cam.ac.uk Topic: Systems and Computational Neuroscience Website: https://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/groups/systems-and-computational-neuros... Themes: Medical Imaging, Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Simon White Department: MRC Biostatistics Unit Email: simon.white@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Statistics for neuroscience Website: https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Alex Whitworth Department: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Email: a.whitworth@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk Topic: Investigating mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases Website: https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/whitworth-group Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, Molecules and Cells Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Professor Paul Wilkinson Department: Department of Psychiatry Email: pow12@cam.ac.uk Topic: Epidemiology of self-harm; undergraduate medical education research Website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pwilkinson Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Dr Caroline Williams-Gray Department: Clinical Neurosciences Email: chm27@cam.ac.uk Topic: The role of the immune system in Parkinson’s disease Website: http://www.thebarkerwilliamsgraylab.co.uk/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Ian Winter Department: Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience Email: imw1001@cam.ac.uk Topic: Sensory systems central processing of auditory signals Website: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/winter/ Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Sorry no students can be taken this year |
| Name: Professor Geoffrey Woods Department: Department of Medical Genetics (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) Email: cw347@cam.ac.uk Topic: Understanding Mendelian disorders of neurodevelopment and the genetics of human pain Website: https://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-geoff-woods Themes: Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour Applications from potential students are welcome |
| Name: Dr Jennifer York Department: Department of Zoology Email: jy364@cam.ac.uk Topic: Behavioural ecology & Bio-inspired design Website: https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/jenny-york Themes: Applications from potential students are welcome |
