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Humma AndleebPhD student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Neuroscience | Global Mental Health | Wellbeing | Psychosocial | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Sarah AshleyPhD student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Neuroscience | Psychosocial | Mood Disorders | Children and Young People's Mental Health Jessie BaldwinSenior research fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Psychosocial | Trauma | Children and Young People’s Mental Health |
Jessica BoneResearch Fellow in Epidemiology and Statistics, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Jess has taught on various programmes in UCL Division of Psychiatry and Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care, including the Clinical Mental Health Sciences MSc, Mental Health Sciences Research MSc and Dementia: Causes, Treatments and Research MSc. She has contributed to modules including Statistics for Mental Health Research, Core Principles of Mental Health Research, Current Research in Children's and Young People's Mental Health, and Current Research in Depression and Anxiety. Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychosocial | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
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 Psychosocial | Physical Health | Older Adult Mental Health | Cognition |
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 Neuroscience | Mood Disorders | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition |
Wai ChangResearch Assistant, Institute of Health Informatics Other research interests include |
Ping-Jen ChenPhD Training Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Brian ChingResearch Assistant, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Physical Health | Psychological Interventions |
Lorna CollinsResearch Fellow, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Wellbeing | Global Mental Health | Psychological Interventions |
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 | Psychological Interventions | Cognition | Qualitative Research |
Christian Dalton-LockePhD Student and Research Assistant, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
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 | Cognition | Neuroscience | 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 | Physical Health | Psychosocial |
Quentin DerconPhD student in mental health science (UCL-Wellcome programme), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Cognition | Neuroscience | Psychological Interventions | |
Jen DykxhoornSenior Research Fellow, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Serious Mental Illness | Global Mental Health | Psychosocial | Substance Abuse | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Saoirse FinnPhD Researcher, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Other research interests include Physical Health | Older Adult Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Genetics Eirini FlouriProfessor, Institute of Education Other research interests include |
Dawid GondekResearch Fellow, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Dawid’s main research interests lie in: Other research interests include |
Ishtar GoviaVisiting Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies Other research interests include Dementia | Global Mental Health | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Psychological Interventions | Pychosocial | Health and Social Care | Cognition | Integrated Approaches | Multimorbidity |
Talya GreeneSenior Lecturer and Honorary Associate Professor, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Laura GroverResearch Assistant, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Older Adult Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Dementia |
Dan HayesSenior Research Fellow, Anna Freud Centre Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Global Mental Health | Psychosocial | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Joseph HayesPrincipal Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Research areas: Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Serious Mental Illness | Pharmacology | Physical Health |
Karishma JivrajLecturer, Institute of Education Other research interests include | Serious Mental Illness | Pharmacology | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Sonia JohnsonProfessor of Social and Community Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry My main interests are in the clinical and social needs and the treatment outcomes of people with significant mental health problems such as psychosis and bipolar disorder. The areas in which I've worked most have been acute care and early psychosis. I have had a major role in several studies of crisis services, including evaluations of crisis resolution teams and of alternatives to standard inpatient care. My clinical work is as consultant psychiatrist in the Camden and Islington Early Intervention Service for psychosis. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Psychosocial | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Applied clinical research (development and testing of interventions) |
Aaron KandolaPhD Candidate, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Karel KieslichPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Substance Abuse | Pharmacology |
James KirkbrideReader in Epidemiology, Division of Psychiatry My lab, PsyLife (www.psylife.eu), aims to investigate the social determinants of psychosis at multiple levels of causation across the life course. I am particularly interested in understanding how our social, built and physical environments can affect the risk of psychosis, and why migrants and their descendants show elevated rates of psychotic disorder. This research is explored through series of multilevel and longitudinal epidemiological investigations. Our research currently includes two large, epidemiological studies of first episode psychosis: the Social Epidemiology of Psychoses in East Anglia study [SEPEA] (www.sepea.org) and the Cambridgeshire centre of the EUropean network of schizophrenia networks studying Gene-Environment Interactions [EU-GEI] (www.eu-gei.eu). Future research projects will focus on Swedish linked longitudinal datasets, the UK ALSPAC birth cohort and a Canadian cohort of young people (NLSCY). My past research has been predominantly conducted in the AESOP and East London First Episode Psychosis studies. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Global Mental Health | Psychosocial | Psychosis |
Rebecca LaceyLecturer in Quantitative Methods and Lifecourse Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Health I am a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Lifecourse Epidemiology. I am a social epidemiologist who applies a life course approach to understanding the importance of the early family social environment for health across the life course. Other research interests include Psychosocial | Mood Disorders | Wellbeing | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Alvina LaiAssociate Professor, Institute of Health Informatics I have worked on a wide range of topics, ranging from evolution to health genomics. I am particularly interested in how we can use real-world data to tackle cancer and infectious diseases. I would also like to expand my research to include non-communicable diseases such as metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Physical Health | Substance Abuse |
Naomi LaundersPhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Global Mental Health | Substance Abuse | Physical Health |
Glyn LewisProfessor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry I am interested in investigating the causes of psychiatric disorder, particularly depressive illness and psychosis. Causal factors that are potentially preventable could be especially useful but clues to aetiology also can improve our understanding of illness and help to devise treatments. I also carry out randomised controlled trials to evaluate treatments for depression in primary care. I aim to carry out research that has practical implications in improving clinical care of people with psychiatric disorder. I want to identify those advances in our neuroscientific understanding that could lead to practicable benefits for patients. Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
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 | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychosocial | Cognition |
Mekeda X LoganResearch Assistant, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Global Mental Health | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Maria LongTrial Manager (NHS) and PhD student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Cognition |
Eliazar LunaPhD student, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Other research interests include |
Peter MartinLecturer in Applied Statistics, Institute of Epidemiology and Health I work with psychological therapists and academic psychologists to conduct randomized controlled trials of psychological therapies. These studies evaluate new interventions and estimate how effective they are. We also use mixed methods to investigate the therapy process and to find out why and how, not just if, therapies are successful. I am a member of ChAPTRe, the Child Attachment and Psychological Therapies Research unit at the Anna Freud Centre and UCL. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Neuroscience | Psychological Interventions |
Tayla McCloudPhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Jennifer McGowanLecturer, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences My research interests are focused primarily on health psychology. I am interested in projects into:
To date my research has explored the biopsychosocial well-being of adults ageing with HIV in relation to both age and time with diagnosed HIV, and project relating to cancer and smoking, and adolescent health and well-being. Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Wellbeing Nigel McKenzieResearch Associate, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Suicide and Self-harm | Serious Mental Illness | Substance abuse |
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 | Cognition | Neuroscience | Liason Psychiatry |
Kate MerrittResearch Fellow, Division of Psychiatry My research interest is neuroimaging biomarkers of schizophrenia and psychosis. My previous work examined 1H-MRS measures of glutamate in the brain, and their relationship with treatment response in schizophrenia. My current work characterises the neurodevelopmental trajectories of psychotic experiences, and how social risk factors impact brain development to cause psychotic experiences. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Pharmacology | Neuroscience | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
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 Psychological Interventions | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition |
Marie MuellerResearch Fellow in Psychiatric Epidemiology, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
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 | Psychological Interventions | Mood Disorders | Dementia | Cognition |
David OsbornProfessor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Division of Psychiatry David's main research interests are the interface between physical and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology and the provision of effective and safe interventions for people with severe mental illnesses including psychosis. He has published related work over the last 20 years in journals such as The British Medical Journal, British Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry/JAMA Psychiatry. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Pharmacology | Physical Health | Mood Disorders |
Praveetha PatalayAssociate Professor, Social Research Institute & Population Science and Experimental Medicine My research interests primarily fall in the area of child development and epidemiology with a focus on mental health through the life course including prevalence, risk factors, consequences, developmental pathways and interventions to promote better mental health. In terms of interventions, my research focuses on community based interventions that are not just about treatment but also focus on prevention of problems, reduction of stigma around mental ill-health and promoting greater wellbeing. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Global Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Wellbeing |
Elise PaulSenior Research Fellow in Epidemiology/Statistics, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Other research interests include Psychosocial | Wellbeing | Self-harm | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Rachel PearsonResearch Assistant, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health I am currently working on a research project which will utilise linked family courts and healthcare data to examine women who become involved in care proceedings and have children placed into out-of-home care. In particular, we aim to identify opportunities for greater input in a healthcare setting to improve the health and wellbeing of mothers involved in recurrent care proceedings and to reduce child maltreatment. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Substance Abuse | Physical Health | Family Justice System |
Alexandra PitmanClinical Associate Professor, Division of Psychiatry I am interested in understanding risk factors for suicide attempt and in developing interventions to address them. I am currently working on the following areas:
Other research interests include Suicide and Self-harm | Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
George PloubidisProfessor of Population Health and Statistics, Centre for Longitudinal Studies George is a multidisciplinary quantitative social scientist and a longitudinal population surveys methodologist. His main research interests relate to socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health over the life course and the mechanisms that underlie generational differences in health and mortality. His methodological work in longitudinal surveys focusses on applications for handling missing data, causal inference and measurement error. Other research interests include Older Adult Mental Health | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Social Statistics |
Lydia PooleResearch Fellow in Mixed Methods, Institute of Health Informatics Lydia 's research focuses on the psychobiology of chronic disease. She is particularly interested in how depression is linked to physical illness and the biobehavioural pathways through which depression can explain disease onset and progression. Her ESRC funded fellowship comprised a body of work exploring the similarities and differences in depression across different physical illnesses. Lydia has a growing number of first-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored five book chapters. She has participated in several international conferences hand has received travel awards to present her work. Other research interests include |
Jonathan RogersWellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Jonathan Rogers is a researcher in the UCL Division of Psychiatry specialising in neuropsychiatric disorders, and particularly catatonia. His current research involves investigating the neurobiology of catatonia using epidemiological, neuroimmunological and neuroimaging techniques. He is also interested in psychopharmacology and the psychiatry of COVID-19. Other research interests include |
Alvin Richards-BellePhD Student, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include |
Jessica SatchellTrial Manager / PhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Older Adult Mental Health | Crime Victims |
Natalie ShohamClinical Fellow, Division of Psychiatry I am looking at how visual impairment and psychosis are associated, using large datasets, for my PhD. Other research interests include |
Francesca SolmiSenior Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry My research broadly focuses on studying the risk factors for the development of eating disorders across the life-span. As part of my Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship I am studying whether inflammation - conceptualisd as exposure to prenatal and childhood infections, high genetic risk, autoimmunity - increases a person's risk of developing eating disorders. To do this, I use large general population datasets, including both biological and environmental data, and causal inference methods. I am also interested in studying inequalities in access to services and evaluating the effectiveness of current treatments for eating disorders using electronic medical records. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Eating Disorders |
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 | Older Adult Mental Health | Cognition |
Ramya SrinivasanWellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry I am a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow and ST6 in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. I am interested in adolescent mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders and how childhood mental health is related to adult mental health. My PhD focusses on childhood irritability and adolescent depression. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Psychosocial | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Jean StaffordPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry My research is broadly focused on dementia and the mental health of older people. In my PhD, I investigated the incidence of very late-onset psychotic disorders in Swedish register, while during my postdoctoral fellowship I examined associations between psychiatric disorders and subsequent dementia. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Older Adult Mental Health | Dementia |
Thomas SteareUCL Wellcome PhD Student in Mental Health Science, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Psychosocial | Serious Mental Illness | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mental Health Services |
Argyris StringarisProfessor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry Professor Stringaris is the Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with the Division of Psychiatry and the Psychology and Language Sciences Department at UCL. He was until recently Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section of Clinical and Computational Psychiatry at NIMH/NIH in the USA and before that a Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. He trained at the Maudsley Hospital. He is a Clinician Scientist working to understand mood and the mechanisms that lead to depression and severe irritability (emotion dysregulation). He is studying how negative mood states arise and are maintained in the brain. He and his team use a broad range of methodologies stretching from computational modelling to clinical observation and randomised controlled trials in pursuit of understanding about mood. His latest work is about mood changes in the absence of events (Passage of Time Dysphoria) and about why humans may seek negative emotional states (i.e. choose not to be happiness maximisers at least for discrete time periods). He is collaborating broadly across the natural sciences (with engineers, physicists and mathematicians) and the humanities (historians and philosophers of emotions). Clinically, he is treating young people with mental illness, particularly those with severe anxiety and depression. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Pharmacology |
Vaso TotsikaAssociate Professor in Intellectual Developmental Disability, Division of Psychiatry My research often tries to describe complex developmental processes by drawing on population-based and/or longitudinal data. I am also interested in understanding how to better support people with intellectual disability, their families and carers through intervention evaluation. Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Intellectual Disability and Autism |
Hara TrouliProgramme Lead Performing Arts Medicine, Division of Surgery & Interventional Science Other research interests include Physical Health | Psychosocial | Substance Abuse | Wellbeing |
Muhammad UmarPhd Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Cognition | Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | psychiatric genetics
Zuyu WangPhD student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Cognition | Dementia | Psychological Interventions | Health and Social Care |
Lucy WebsterResearch Associate, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychological Interventions | Cognition |
Liam WrightResearch Fellow in Epidemiology/Statistics, Institute of Epidemiology and Health I am a Research Fellow in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at UCL. My work uses genetically informed designs to explore social inequalities in health and change in inequalities across time. My PhD research was on the association between youth unemployment and mental health later in life (so called scarring effects). Other research interests include |
Ruihan WuPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Psychosocial | Neuroscience | Cognition | Autism |
Justin Christopher YangResearch Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Substance Abuse | Serious Mental Illness | Mood Disorders | Pharmacology |
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 |