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Meet our experts from across the Faculty of Brain Sciences - find out about their research, what excites them most about their work and what advice they would give their younger selves.
Suzanne Beeke

Meet the expert: Dr Suzanne Beeke

Dr Suzanne Beeke is Associate Professor in the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences and Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

Dr Marc Busche

Marc Busche

Dr Marc Aurel Busche is a Group Leader at the UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Queen Square National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Omar Mahroo

Meet the expert: Professor Omar Mahroo

Omar Mahroo is Professor of Retinal Neuroscience at UCL, and Consultant Ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital in London.

Dr Patrizia Pezzoli

Meet the expert: Dr Patrizia Pezzoli

Dr Patrizia Pezzoli is a lecturer with the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences. She also supports Professor Essi Viding in leading the children and young people's special interest group.

jonathan ashmore

World Hearing Day: Q&A with Professor Jonathan Ashmore

Professor Jonathan Ashmore (UCL Ear Institute) is Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics and a Fellow of the Royal Society, and has been a President of the Physiological Society.

Dr Lucy Handscomb

Meet the expert: Dr Lucy Handscomb

Dr Lucy Handscomb joined the teaching team at UCL Ear Institute in 2010 and is mostly involved in the education of audiologists, specialising in adult aural rehabilitation, counselling skills, tinnitus and hyperacusis. 

Selina Wray

Meet the expert: Professor Selina Wray

Selina Wray is Professor of Molecular Neuroscience and Alzheimer’s Research UK Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

Hannah Cooper

Meet the expert: Dr Hannah Cooper

Hannah Cooper is a Lecturer in Audiology at the UCL Ear Institute and a Clinical Scientist in Audiology at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. She is also an inclusion lead within the Faculty.

Dr Dennis Chan

Meet the expert: Dr Dennis Chan

Dennis Chan is a clinician scientist at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience whose research focuses on the development of new tests for diagnosing earliest stage Alzheimer’s disease.

Sanjay Sisodiya

Meet the expert: Professor Sanjay M Sisodiya

Sanjay Sisodiya is Professor of Neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology whose research focuses on complex epilepsy.

Simon Mead

Meet the expert: Professor Simon Mead

Simon Mead is Deputy Director of MRC Prion Unit at UCL Institute of Prion Diseases.

Tessa Dekker

Meet the expert: Dr Tessa Dekker

Dr Tessa Dekker is Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Experimental Psychology and leads the UCL Child Vision Lab.

Gill Livingston

Meet the expert: Professor Gill Livingston

Professor Gill Livingston is a Professor in Psychiatry of older people, within the Division of Psychiatry. She is also an honorary consultant psychiatrist at Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust.

sonia johnson

Meet the expert: Professor Sonia Johnson

Professor Sonia Johnson is Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry and is Director of Education in the Division of Psychiatry and Director of the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit.

Aman Saleem

Meet the expert: Associate Professor Aman Saleem

Associate Professor and Sir Henry Dale Fellow Aman Saleem runs a lab in the Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences.

Bart de Strooper

Meet the expert: Professor Bart De Strooper

Professor Bart De Strooper is director of the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) and his research group at the UK DRI at UCL interrogates the fundamental mechanisms behind Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

Rob Pitceathly

Meet the expert: Dr Robert Pitceathly

Dr Robert Pitceathly is a Principal Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurologist and leads a research group studying mitochondrial disease and dysfunction at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

Mika Kivimaki

Meet the expert: Professor Mika Kivimaki

Mika Kivimaki is Professor and Chair of Social Epidemiology within the Division of Psychiatry. His research focuses on modifiable risk factors and prognostic factors for major adult-onset chronic diseases of public health relevance, including dementia.

Martina Callaghan

Meet the expert: Professor Martina Callaghan

Martina Callaghan is Professor of MRI Physics and Head of the Research Department of Imaging Neuroscience at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Her research focuses on developing methodologies across the entire neuroimaging chain.

David Werring

World Stroke Day: Professor David Werring

David Werring is Professor of Clinical Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the Stroke Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Professor Cathy Price

Meet the expert: Professor Cathy Price

Professor Cathy Price is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (2016-2024).