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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.

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Asma Awad

Expertise: Establishing a standard realistic ototoxicity monitoring protocol for cancer patients who receive cisplatin chemotherapy and evaluating the feasibility of implementing it.

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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).

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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.

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Mingyue Hu

Expertise: Auditory cognitive neuroscience: how our brain processes the sound.

Supervisors: Prof Maria Chait

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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)

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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

 

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Brian Lam

Expertise: Understanding changes in neural coding of the auditory nerve caused by degradation in peripheral hearing components.

Supervisor: Nick Lesica

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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

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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).

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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

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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.

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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

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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

 

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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

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Letizia Vestito

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Supervisors: Prof. Maria Bitner-Glindzicz and Dr. Sally Dawson.


Funded by: UCL NIHR BRC in Deafness and Hearing Problems

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Katherine Whitcroft

Expertise: Assessment of clinical olfaction using psychophysics, structural and functional neuroimaging.

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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”