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Agatha Alves AnetPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Global Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Wellbeing |
Marc Aurel BuscheProgramme Leader at the UK DRI and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Queen Square, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include |
Dan BangSir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen Square Institute of Neurology I study how humans build mental models of the world for behavioural control, with a focus on social behaviour. Social interaction is remarkably complex: an action that is rewarded in one context may be punished in another, and what we think or feel may clash with the behaviour that is required of us. I seek to understand how humans solve such problems, using behavioural testing, computational modelling and neuroimaging. These techniques allow me to characterise the cognitive processes underlying behaviour and study their implementation in the brain. A biologically-informed account of human social behaviour is important for advancing our understanding of disorders of mental health. Many mental disorders are social in nature – they manifest in interactions between people – but we lack a mechanistic explanation of what has gone awry. Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Psychosocial | Neuromodulation |
James BisbyLecturer, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Elvira BramonProfessor of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Division of Psychiatry I’m interested in biological markers of brain function and structure that can be used to characterise psychosis. In particular, I have expertise in using EEG techniques like evoked potentials and quantitative EEG and have also worked with structural imaging and cognitive biomarkers for psychosis. Other research interests include Neuroscience | Pharmacology | Serious Mental Illness | Genomics |
Feifei BuSenior Research Fellow, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Feifei Bu is senior research fellow in statistics/epidemiology, working with Dr Daisy Fancourt on a number of projects. She is the principal investigator of the NHS England funded project looking at patient activation measure and social prescribing, and a co-investigator of the EpiArts project examining the relationship between art & cultural engagement and behavioural & health outcomes using US cohort data. She also works on the COVID-19 Social Study investigating the psychological and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Other research interests include Epidemiology | Psychosocial | Physical Health | Older Adult Mental Health |
Christina CarlisiPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences I am a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome research fellow in the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit at University College London. Through my fellowship, I am also affiliated with the Laboratory of NeuroGenetics at Duke University. My current research uses computational methods (e.g. computational modelling, psychophysics) to examine affective processing. I am interested in how individual differences in diverse factors such as early life experiences and neurobiological mechanisms give rise to (or protect us from) the development of mental health problems and am particularly interested in developing more sensitive measures of individual differences to study how behavioural traits such as anxiety and conduct problems develop across childhood and adolescence. Other research interests include Epidemiology | Neuroscience | Mood Disorders | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Christine CarterFull time PhD student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Older Adult Mental Health | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Global Mental Health | Psychosocial |
Justin ChanNeuropsychiatry CT3, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Richard ColePhD student, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include |
Claudia CooperProfessor of Psychiatry of Older Age, Division of Psychiatry I am interested in the epidemiology of older people's mental health, happiness and wellbeing, and in the mental health of carers of people with dementia. Other research interests include elder abuse - its epidemiology and prevention; and the provision of quality and equality in dementia care. Other research interests include Dementia | Epidemiology | Psychological Interventions | Qualitative Research |
Anthony DavidProfessor of Mental Health Director & Sackler Chair, UCL Institute of Mental Health I graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980 and trained in neurology before entering psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London. I also have a Masters degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology. I was an honorary consultant at the Maudsley from 1990-2018 and was awarded a personal chair from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London in 1996. I was Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the IoPPN in 2013-8. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Neuroscience | Epidemiology | Physical Health |
Neil DaviesProfessor of Medical Statistics, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition | Dementia | Digital Health | Epidemiology | Physical Health | Psychosocial |
Quentin DerconPhD student in mental health science (UCL-Wellcome programme), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Epidemiology | Suicide and Self-harm | |
Stephen FlemingSir Henry Dale Fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Dementia | Neuroscience | Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions |
Aikaterini FotopoulouProfessor, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Katerina’s research aims to understand the interface between mental and somatic health and ultimately advance the treatment of related health disorders, including unawareness following stroke, functional motor and eating disorders. Katerina has published around 100 papers (see below for full list) and edited the volume Fotopoulou, A. Conway, M.A. Pfaff, D. From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, 2012. Her grant’s portfolio totals approximately 4.2 million EUR, including two ERC grants. Other research interests include Neuroscience | Physical Health | Serious Mental Illness | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Eirini FlouriProfessor, Institute of Education Other research interests include Epidemiology | Children and Young People's Mental Health Sabina FunkResearch Associate, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Dementia | Global Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychological Interventions | Wellbeing |
Anne GaulePhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Neuroscience | Psychosocial | Wellbeing | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Eriko GavinioPhD Student and Clinical Psychologist, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Neuroscience | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Wellbeing |
James GilleenSenior Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions | Neuroscience | Wellbeing | Serious Mental Illness | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Sergi Costafreda GonzalezAssociate Professor, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Serious Mental Illness | Mood Disorders | Older Adult Mental Health |
Ishtar GoviaVisiting Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies Other research interests include Dementia | Epidemiology | Global Mental Health | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Psychological Interventions | Pychosocial | Health and Social Care | Integrated Approaches | Multimorbidity |
Zoë HaimePhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions | Serious Mental Illness | Eating Disorders Antonia HamiltonProfessor of Social Neuroscience, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Neuroscience | Children and Young People's Mental Health Lasana HarrisProfessor of Social Neuroscience, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Neuroscience | Stigma |
Tobias HauserPrinciple Research Fellow, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Digital Health | Neuroscience | Pharmacology |
Samuel HewittPhD Student, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience |
Vivian HillProgramme Director Doctorate in Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychology, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Wellbeing | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Marjan JahanshahiEmeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Our current areas of research interest are: Other research interests include Dementia | Mood Disorders | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychosocial | Physical Health | Wellbeing Sunjeev KambojProfessor of Translational Clinical Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Neuroscience | Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Trauma | Substance abuse Emma Jayne KilfordPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Global Mental Health | Digital Health |
Peter A. KirkPhD in the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Program for the Ecological Study of the Brain, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include |
Christian LambertPrincipal Research Associate/Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Dementia | Neuroscience | Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonian syndromes |
Gill LivingstonProfessor of Psychiatry of Older People, Division of Psychiatry I lead the Lancet standing committee on dementia prevention, intervention and care. Other research interests include Dementia | Epidemiology | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychosocial |
Alex LloydResearch Fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial |
Maria LongTrial Manager (NHS) and PhD student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Epidemiology |
Millie LowtherPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include |
Natalie MarchantSenior Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychological Interventions | Neuroscience | Older Adult Mental Health |
Ronan McCoyStudent Advisor - Student Support and Wellbeing Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Substance abuse | Trauma | Identity development |
Andrew McWilliamsClinical Research Fellow and Specialist Registrar in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Epidemiology | Neuroscience | Liason Psychiatry |
Carlos MenaPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Anxiety |
Emily MidouhasAssociate Professor, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society I take a developmental psychopathology approach to understanding: 1) The effects of the social and built environment on the emotional and behavioural problems of children; 2) The mental health of children with special educational needs across childhood and adolescence, particularly children with ADHD and autism; and 3) The role of biological factors in the association between life adversity and mental health across the lifecourse. I examine these topics using advanced quantitative analyses of large-scale longitudinal cohort data. I am also an active member of Child Behaviour and Cognition (CuBiC) lab, http://cubiclab.weebly.com. Other research interests include Epidemiology | Psychological Interventions | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Vasiliki OrgetaAssociate Professor, Division of Psychiatry Dr Vasiliki Orgeta is a research psychologist interested in emotional well-being in people with dementia and their family carers. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of psychological and psychosocial interventions in dementia and mild cognitive impairment. She is also interested in how stress could be influencing risk of dementia and the effect of caregiving on caregivers physical and mental health. Other research interests include Wellbeing | Physical Health | Psychosocial | Older Adult Mental Health | Neuroscience | Epidemiology | Psychological Interventions | Mood Disorders | Dementia |
Steven PapachristouLecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology and Human Development Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Serious Mental Illness | Pharmacology | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Panayiota PetrochilosConsultant Neuropsychiatrist and Department lead for Neuropsychiatry, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Dementia | Psychological Interventions |
Patrizia PezzoliLecturer, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include |
Giulia PiazzaPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Pharmacology | Neuroscience | Psychosocial |
Alexandra PikePostdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include |
Liam PikettResearch Assistant, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Children and Young People's Mental Health Gary PriceConsultant Neuropsychiatrist , Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychological Interventions | Neuroscience | Pharmacology |
Philippa RenoufResearch Assistant, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Dementia | Wellbeing | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychological Interventions |
Oliver RobinsonICN Group Leader, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience We try to better understand anxiety disorders and 'normal' adaptive anxiety and how they relate. We use threat of shock, functional magnetic resonance imaging, computational psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychopharmacology techniques. We ultimately want to improve outcomes for sufferers of anxiety. For more details visit my lab website: www.oliverjrobinson.com Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions |
Jonathan RoiserProfessor of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Our aim is to understand the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying symptoms of mental illness, especially those relating to motivation. We utilise experimental techniques drawn from cognitive psychology, functional neuroimaging, psychopharmacology, and computational modelling, both in patient populations and healthy volunteers. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Pharmacology | Physical Health | Psychological Interventions |
David RuttenbergPhD Student and UCL Staff (Content Creator and PGTA), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience I am a passionately devoted scientist & PhD candidate within the University College London's Institute of Education & Culture, Communication & Media Department's Knowledge Lab and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience's Developmental Diversity Lab & Cognition Emotion and Education Lab (CEE) within the Centre for Attention Learning and Memory (CALM) at the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at University of Cambridge (CBU). Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Older Adult Mental Health | Wellbeing | Sensory, Anxiety and Attention |
Karin ShmueliAssociate Professor in MRI, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering I am interested in developing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques to increase image contrast and resolution by exploiting new contrast mechanisms. The current goal of my research programme is to characterise frequency and susceptibility contrasts and to develop and translate MRI techniques exploiting these mechanisms to improve disease diagnosis and monitoring of therapies. Conventional MRI uses only the signal magnitude, but utilising the frequency (or phase) of the MRI signal has dramatically improved visualisation of tissue structure and can reveal tissue composition. During my previous post at the USA National Institutes of Health, I developed new methods to calculate tissue magnetic susceptibility maps from MRI frequency images. MRI tissue Susceptibility Mapping is an exciting technique and a rapidly growing research area. Together with my research group and collaborators, I now aim to unlock the potential of these MRI frequency and susceptibility methods to generate clinical MRI biomarkers of disease. Other research interests include Dementia | Neuroscience | Physical Health | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Andrew SommerladPrincipal Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Dr Sommerlad uses multiple methodologies including observational research using longitudinal cohorts and routinely collected electronic health records, qualitative research, systematic review and meta-analysis to examine clinically relevant outcomes in dementia and cognition for older people. Other research interests include Dementia | Neuroscience | Epidemiology | Older Adult Mental Health |
Aimee SpectorProfessor of Old Age Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences My research broadly focuses on the development and evaluation of psychosocial interventions and outcome measures for people with dementia. My recent research has taken a more global focus, for example I lead an MRC funded implementation trial of CST in Brazil, India and Tanzania. I work closely with colleagues from Hong Kong University and Peking University through formal strategic partnerships, with several joint projects adapting and evaluating psychosocial interventions for dementia (including digital interventions) and cultural adaptations of outcome measures. I have developed and published a range of outcome measures including measures of dementia knowledge, sense of competence, hope and resilience, and independence and engagement. Other research interests include Dementia | Global Mental Health | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial |
Maarten SpeekenbrinkProfessor of Mathematical Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Psychological Interventions | Neuroscience | AI for mental health | |
Anahita TalwarStudent, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Computational Modelling | Psychological Interventions |
Muhammad UmarPhd Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Epidemiology | Neuroscience | psychiatric genetics |
Vincent ValtonNIHR UCLH BRC Fellow - Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include |
Essi VidingProfessor of Developmental Psychopathology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences I combine cognitive experimental measures, twin model-fitting, brain imaging, and genotyping to study different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behaviour and mental health problems more generally. Other research interests include Neuroscience | Psychosocial | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Andrew WatsonHonorary Clinical Lecture, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences I combine cognitive experimental measures, twin model-fitting, brain imaging, and genotyping to study different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behaviour and mental health problems more generally. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness |Trauma | Psychological Interventions | Digital Health |
Baihan WangPhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Neuroscience | Serious Mental Illness Zuyu WangPhD student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Lucy WebsterResearch Associate, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychological Interventions | Epidemiology |
Jennifer WenbornSenior Clinical Research Associate - Occupational Therapist, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychosocial | Older Adult Mental Health | Wellbeing |
Emily WestResearch Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Sarah J WhiteSenior Research Fellow and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Neuroscience | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Developmental Disorders (Autism) Marco WittmannIndependent Senior Research Fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Neuroscience | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Psychosocial |
Ruihan WuPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Epidemiology | Psychosocial | Neuroscience | Autism |
Sedigheh ZabihiResearch Assistant, Division of Psychiatry I studies my MSc in Clinical Mental Health Sciences at UCL, Division of Psychiatry and I received my BSc in Clinical Psychology from University of Tehran Other research interests include Epidemiology | Global Mental Health | Psychosocial | Dementia |