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PhD Students
Lida Alampounti
Area of expertise: Assessing and optimising audiovisual integration for listening in a mixture of competing sounds.
Supervisors: Professor Jennifer Bizley and Dr Hannah Cooper.
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Hearing Theme and the UCL Ear Institute.
Nazrin Ali
Asma Awad
Expertise: Establishing a standard realistic ototoxicity monitoring protocol for cancer patients who receive cisplatin chemotherapy and evaluating the feasibility of implementing it.
Camilla Boschian
Expertise: Stem cell-derived model system of Spiral Ganglion Neuron and Schwann cell.
Supervisors: Prof Jonathan Gale, Dr Daniel Jagger & Prof Martin Birchall.
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).
Claudia Contidini-Wright
Elizabeth Freeman
Carla Griffiths
Area of expertise: Implementing unbiased signal processing to uncover correlations of feature to object-based neural representations to Auditory Cortex layers.
Supervisor: Prof Jennifer Bizley.
Funded by: European Research Council.
Jasmin Ho
Mingyue Hu
Expertise: Auditory cognitive neuroscience: how our brain processes the sound.
Supervisors: Prof Maria Chait
Mert Huviyetli
Marsha Jenkins
Amit Khandhadia
Natallia Kharytaniuk
Expertise: Phenotyping audio-vestibular function in patients with superficial siderosis, developing speech-in-noise testing as a composite measure for diagnosis, to monitor progression and functional outcomes in patients with hearing loss.
Supervisors: Prof Doris-Eva Bamiou, Prof David Werring, Prof Anne Schilder.
Funded by: University College London Hospitals (UCLH) National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
Tori Kok
Area of expertise: Optimisation of HD-tDCS as a tool for tinnitus management.
Supervisors: Dr Roland Schaette and Dr Giriraj Shekhawat.
Funded by: UCL-National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) in Deafness and Hearing Problems & UCL Ear Institute
Brian Lam
Expertise: Understanding changes in neural coding of the auditory nerve caused by degradation in peripheral hearing components.
Supervisor: Nick Lesica
Jules Lebert
Expertise: Understanding how auditory perception is maintained in the presence of background noise and how auditory-prefrontal interactions support selective listening.
Supervisor: Prof Jenny Bizley
Funded by: European Research Council
Chen Lu
Louay Madanat
Jack Martin
Expertise: The role of stress granules in hearing loss.
Supervisors: Dr Sally Dawson and Prof Jonathan Gale.
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).
Terry Nunn
Exploring Parameter Variation in Cochlear Implant Fitting to Improve Speech Perception in Difficult Listening Conditions.
Supervisors: Dr Debi Vickers, Dr Tim Green, Professor Dan Jiang
Alfonso Luca Pendolino
Area of expertise: ENT specialist with a particular interest in Rhinology. Evaluation of treatment modalities for nasal and olfactory dysfunction in patients with NSAID-exacerbated respiratory disease (N-ERD) and without N-ERD.
Supervisors: Peter Andrews, Dr Glenis Scadding & Dr Dan Jagger, Professor Anne Schilder, Professor Carl May, Professor Maroeska Rovers, Professor Doris Bamiou.
Luozhou Peng
Katarina Poole
Expertise: Elucidating the brain regions and neural pathways that enable auditory streams to be formed and maintained.
Supervisors: Prof Jenny Bizley, Prof Maria Chait
Rafaello Sbordoni
Expertise: Use of tissue-engineering techniques for the development of an in vitro model of human primary bronchi, to be used in an academic and in an industrial setting.
Supervisors: Professor Martin Birchall, Dr James Phillips & Dr Nazia Mehrban.
Funded by: GlaxoSmithKline
Diya Vaid
Expertise: Neurosciences and qualitative research methods.
Supervisors: Professor Anne Schilder (UCL Ear Institute) & Professor Fiona Stevenson (UCL Department of Primary Care and Population Health).
Funded by: NIHR UCLH BRC
Letizia Vestito
Expertise:
Supervisors: Prof. Maria Bitner-Glindzicz and Dr. Sally Dawson.
Funded by: UCL NIHR BRC in Deafness and Hearing Problems
Katherine Whitcroft
Expertise: Assessment of clinical olfaction using psychophysics, structural and functional neuroimaging.
Simona Zingaro
Expertise: Developing a stem cell-derived model system of human inner ear sensory epithelia.
Supervisors: Dr Jonathan Gale, Dr Ivan Wall and Dr Anai Gonzalez-Cordero.
Funded by: UCL National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) in Deafness and Hearing Problems and with support from the “Bnai Brith Leo Baeck Trust Fund”
