PhD Students

Adaobi Osuji

Expertise: I am interested in interaction of Hearing loss, Auditory processing and Cognition in Patients with Hearing loss and/or Mild Cognitive Impairment (Early Alzheimer's disease). 

Supervisor: Prof Doris Eva- Bamiou

Alfonso Luca Pendolino

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: Prof Peter Andrews, Dr Glenis Scadding, Dr Dan Jagger, Prof Anne Schilder, Prof Carl May, Prof Maroeska Rovers, Prof Doris Bamiou

Amit Khandhadia

Benjamin Silver

Brian Lam

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

Supervisor: Prof Nick Lesica

Buse Adam

Expertise: Interest in investigating how the brain processes and tracks rapidly changing sound sequences and gaining an understanding of the underlying neurological mechanisms.

Supervisor: Prof Maria Chait

Funded by: the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of National Education

Carla Griffiths

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

Chen Lu

Expertise: Auditory cortex abnormalities in the Df1/+ mouse model with genetic risk for schizophrenia and hearing impairment.

Supervisor: Prof Jennifer Linden

Claudia Contadini-Wright

Expertise: My research centers around understanding how the brain is able to direct and sustain attention under distracting auditory conditions, and why some people find this process easier than others. Using a combination of behavioural measures and EEG, I am hoping to use this to shed light on why some people find it harder to adapt to hearing aids in the presence of background noise than others.

Supervisor: Prof Maria Chait

Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)

Diya Vaid

Expertise: Neurosciences and qualitative research methods. 

Supervisors: Prof Anne Schilder (UCL Ear Institute),  Prof Fiona Stevenson (UCL Department of Primary Care and Population Health)

Funded by: NIHR UCLH BRC

Eleanor Brown

Expertise: Hearing loss in NF2.

Supervisor: Prof Dan Jagger

Funded by: Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID),  Anatomical Society (AS)

Elizabeth Freeman

Expertise: Exploring the molecular basis of swarming behaviour in the African malaria mosquito, including the auditory behaviour of locating mates.

Supervisor: Dr Marta Andres

Funded by: London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme (BBSRC)

Hope Oloye

Jack Martin

Expertise: The role of stress granules in hearing loss.

Supervisors: Dr Sally Dawson, Prof Jonathan Gale

Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)

Jasmin Ho

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

Katherine Whitcroft

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

Letizia Vestito

Supervisors: Prof Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Dr Sally Dawson

Funded by: UCL NIHR BRC in Deafness and Hearing Problems

Lida Alampounti

Expertise: Assessing and optimising audiovisual integration for listening in a mixture of competing sounds.

Supervisors: Prof Jennifer Bizley, Dr Hannah Cooper

Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Hearing Theme, the UCL Ear Institute

Louay Madanat

Expertise: Investigating the causal role of the auditory cortex in auditory processing and adaptation to noise.

Supervisor: Prof Jennifer Bizley

Marsha Jenkins

Expertise: Investigating the development of an evidence-based hearing aid fitting, validation and evaluation protocol for children with Unilateral Hearing Loss (UHL). 

Supervisors: Dr Hannah Cooper, Dr Amanda Hall

Funded by: UCL

Mert Huviyetli

Expertise: My research centres around understanding how the brain mechanisms involved in auditory scene analysis, specifically the detection of abrupt changes in complex acoustic environments, are influenced by healthy aging.

Supervisor: Prof Maria Chait

Funded by: the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of National Education

Mingyue Hu

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

Supervisor: Prof Maria Chait

Nazrin Ali

Terry Nunn

Expertise: Exploring Parameter Variation in Cochlear Implant Fitting to Improve Speech Perception in Difficult Listening Conditions.

Supervisors: Dr Debi Vickers, Dr Tim Green, Prof Dan Jiang

Xena Liu

Expertise: Investigating the clinical usability of Microsaccades (MS) alongside pupillometry and EEG to measure listening effort and attentional/memory load.

Supervisors: Prof Maria Chait, Prof Doris-Eva Bamiou

Funded by: Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)

Xinyu Zhou

Expertise: Homogenous distribution of therapeutic agents along the cochlear by acoustic stimulation.

Supervisor: Mr Torsten Marquardt

Funded by: Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)