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.
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 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.
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 for the UCL Institute of Mental Health.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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