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Agatha Alves AnetPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Cognition | Global Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Wellbeing |
Humma AndleebPhD student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Epidemiology | Global Mental Health | Wellbeing | Psychosocial | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Sarah AshleyPhD student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Epidemiology | Psychosocial | Mood Disorders | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
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 Cognition | Mood Disorders | Psychosocial | Neuromodulation |
Daniel BendorAssociate Professor, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |
James BisbyLecturer, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Michael BloomfieldPrincipal Clinical Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Dr Bloomfield's work seeks to understand the mechanisms underlying how exposure to risk factors for mental illness during childhood and adolescence alter adult brain and cognitive function to give rise to mental illnesses so that new treatment and preventative interventions can be developed. He has been awarded an Excellence Fellowship from University College London, the British Medical Association's Margaret Temple Award for schizophrenia research, the British Association of Psychopharmaocology's BAP Award for Junior Clinical Psychopharmacologist of the Year and the Royal College of Psychiatrists Trainee of the Year award. In addition he has received young investigator awards from the European College of Neuropsychopharmocology, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and major international research societies. Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions | Trauma Henrietta Bowden-JonesConsultant Psychiatrist in Behavioural Addictions, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Digital Health | Epidemiology | Global Mental Health | Neuroscience | Substance abuse | Behavioural addictions |
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 Cognition | Pharmacology | Serious Mental Illness | Genomics Ella BurchillAcademic Foundation Doctor, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Epidemiology | Serious Mental Illness | Older Adult Mental Health |
Marc Aurel BuscheProgramme Leader at the UK DRI and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Queen Square, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Dementia | Older Adult Mental Health | Cognition Dorina CadarSenior Research Fellow, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Cognition Other research interests include |
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 | Mood Disorders | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition George ChapmanHonorary research fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Pharmacology | Older Adult Mental Health | Serious Mental Illness |
James J CoxAssociate Professor, Division of Medicine |
David CurtisHonorary Professor, Division of Biosciences Since 1990 I collaborated with Hugh Gurling at the UCL Molecular Psychiatry Lab in research aimed at identifying genes affecting risk of mental illness. Initially we carried out linkage studies of families multiply affected with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Subsequently I have been involved in association studies and latterly studies using next generation sequencing data. Throughout this time I have also developed new statistical approaches and have written computer software to carry out genetic analyses. I am currently working on methods for detecting genetic variants affecting risk of complex diseases using large exome-sequenced datasets. Other research interests include |
Ravi DasAssociate Professor, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions | Serious Mental Illness | Substance Abuse |
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 | Epidemiology | Physical Health |
Quentin DerconPhD student in mental health science (UCL-Wellcome programme), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Cognition | Epidemiology | Psychological Interventions |
Stephen FlemingSir Henry Dale Fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Dementia | Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Cognition |
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 Physical Health | Serious Mental Illness | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition
India Francis-CrossleyPhD Research Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Epidemiology | Psychosocial | Cognition | Serious Mental Illness |
Sabina FunkResearch Associate, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Cognition | Dementia | Global Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychological Interventions | Wellbeing |
Anne GaulePhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Psychosocial | Wellbeing | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition |
Eriko GavinioPhD Student and Clinical Psychologist, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Wellbeing |
James GilleenSenior Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions | Wellbeing | Serious Mental Illness | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition |
Laura GroverResearch Assistant, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Older Adult Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Epidemiology | Dementia 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 | Cognition | Digital Health | Pharmacology Jemma HazanSpR / Academic Clinical Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include |
Samuel HewittPhD Student, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition | Mood Disorders |
Aaron KandolaPhD Candidate, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Epidemiology Sunjeev KambojProfessor of Translational Clinical Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Trauma | Substance abuse | Pharmacology Karel KieslichPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Substance Abuse | Pharmacology | Epidemiology 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 Cognition | Dementia | Neuroscience | Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonian syndromes |
Jennifer F. LindenProfessor of Neuroscience, Ear Institute Human beings effortlessly perform complex feats of sound perception and auditory learning; for example, identifying new friends on the telephone just from the way they say hello; predicting a family member's arrival home by the sound of the car alone; or recognizing music from mere snippets heard while flipping through channels on the radio. These everyday yet remarkable abilities depend on listening and learning mechanisms within the brain, not just hearing mechanisms within the ear. Research in my laboratory is aimed at understanding these brain mechanisms of listening and learning, especially in the auditory cortex and thalamus. Other research interests include Schizophrenia | Developmental Language Disorders |
Rick LiveseyProfessor of Stem Cell Biology, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Other research interests include Dementia | Neurodevelopmental Disorders |
Mekeda X LoganResearch Assistant, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Epidemiology | Global Mental Health | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Alexis An Yee LowPhD Student, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include |
Millie LowtherPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include |
Andrew MacAskillSir Henry Dale Fellow, Division of Biosciences We are working to understand how neurons in the brain communicate with each other to allow them to encode emotional behaviours and make decisions. Problems with this communication underlie the vast majority of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases, and so our aim is to find novel ways to combat these diseases by gaining a greater understanding of the processes that they destroy. Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Pharmacology | Substance Abuse |
Natalie MarchantSenior Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychological Interventions | Older Adult Mental Health | Cognition |
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 | Epidemiology | Psychological Interventions |
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 | Epidemiology | Liason Psychiatry |
Carlos MenaPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Cognition | Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Anxiety |
Eamon McCroryProfessor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Psychological Interventions | Trauma | Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions |
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 | Epidemiology | Pharmacology | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Agnes NorburyResearch Fellow, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Digital Health | Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions |
Andrei OkorokovAssociate Professor, Division of Medicine Pain is a major clinical problem and affects more people than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. Pain is a cofactor in many medical conditions yet pain medicines are often only partially effective, and the problem is increasing with an aging population. By understanding the cellular and molecular processes that lead to the sensation of pain, more effective targeted therapies can be developed to alleviate suffering. Other research interests include Pain |
Paula OliveiraHonorary Researcher, Anna Freud Centre Other research interests include Psychosocial | Psychological Interventions | Children and Young People's Mental Health |
Sami Omar AmawiCore trainee in psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Serious Mental Illness | Substance Abuse | Trauma Jakub OnyskPhD Student, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Cognition | Psychological Interventions | Suicide and Self-harm | Machine learning methods in the context of neuroscience and 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 | Epidemiology | Psychological Interventions | Mood Disorders | Dementia | Cognition Panayiota PetrochilosConsultant Neuropsychiatrist and Department lead for Neuropsychiatry, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Dementia | Psychological Interventions Harriet PhillipsResearch Assistant Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health \ Trauma | Conduct problems |
Giulia PiazzaPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Pharmacology | Psychosocial | Cognition Tua PiehlHeadquarters Administrator, UK Dementia Research Insitute Other research interests include Dementia | Serious Mental Illness | Trauma | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Psychological Interventions |
Alexandra PikePostdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Psychological Interventions | Cognition Gary PriceConsultant Neuropsychiatrist , Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Dementia | Psychological Interventions | Cognition | Pharmacology |
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 | Pharmacology | Psychological Interventions | Cognition |
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 | Cognition | Mood Disorders | Pharmacology | Physical Health | Psychological Interventions |
Elizabeth SampsonClinical Professor, Division of Psychiatry My research focuses on key clinical issues for frail older people. My main areas of interest are:
Other research interests include Older Adult Mental Health | Physical Health | Liaison Psychiatry | Dementia |
Gabrielle SheehanClinical Research Assistant, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Older Adult Mental Health | Anxiety and depression in older adults and Parkinson's disease |
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 Physical Health | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition | Dementia |
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 Epidemiology | Older Adult Mental Health | Cognition | Dementia |
Maarten SpeekenbrinkProfessor of Mathematical Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | AI for mental health | |
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 | Epidemiology | Mood Disorders | Pharmacology |
Anahita TalwarStudent, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Computational Modelling | Psychological Interventions | Cognition |
Muhammad UmarPhd Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Mood Disorders | Cognition | Epidemiology |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 Psychosocial | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition |
Baihan WangPhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Serious Mental Illness | Cognition Muhammad Waqar Ashraf BhattiClinical Psychologist, Division of Psychiatry Other research interests include Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Wellbeing | Pharmacology | Mood Disorders | Health and Social Care | Sexuality |
Stephen WilsonProfessor of Developmental Genetics and Vice-Dean for Research, FLS, Division of Biosciences Other research interests include Developmental Genetics and Neurobiology | Brain Asymmetry Marco WittmannIndependent Senior Research Fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Other research interests include Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Psychosocial |
Ruihan WuPhD Student, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Other research interests include Epidemiology | Psychosocial | Cognition | Autism Mahinda YogarajahConsultant neurologist and MRC CARP fellow, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Kristina ZhelcheskaPhD student, Queen Square Institute of Neurology Other research interests include Dementia | Cognition | Children and Young People's Mental Health | Neuroscience | Older Adult Mental Health | Trauma | Mood Disorders |