UCL Supervisors

Supervisors: UCL

Please find details of potential supervisors at UCL and their research area listed below.

Supervisor	Department/Institute	Position	Theme
Orazio Attanasio	Head, Economics	Professor of Economics	Consumption, household behaviour, development economics, macroeconomics
Richard Blundell	Economics	Ricardo Professor of Political Economy	Microeconometrics, labour supply, savings and consumption, household behaviour, taxation
Martin Bobak	Epidemiology & Public Health	Professor of Epidemiology	Socioeconomic inequalities, ageing
Annie Britton	Epidemiology & Public Health	Reader in Epidemiology	Determinants and consequences of alcohol consumption over the life course
Eric Brunner	Epidemiology & Public Health	Professor in Social and Biological Epidemiology	Inequalities in health, ageing, psychosocial risk factors for CVD
Frances Brodsky	Structural & Molecular Biology	Professor of Cell Biology	Cell and structural biology of clathrin, insulin response, muscle physiology
Juan-Pablo Casas	Institute of Cardiovascular Science	Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology	Genetics, epigenetics, metabolomics
Nish Chaturvedi	Institute of Cardiovascular Science	Professor of Clinical Epidemiology	Cardiometabolic disease, ethnicity
Gabriella Conti	Economics and Centre for Longitudinal Studies	Reader in Economics	Developmental origins of inequalities in health, long-term impacts of early life conditions, biology and economics
Rachel Cooper	MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing	Programme Leader	Life course epidemiology, ageing, physical capability
Peter Dayan	Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit	Professor of Computational Neuroscience	Computational modelling of biosocial interactions
Bianca De Stavola	Institute of Child Health	Professor of Medical Statistics	Life course epidemiology, causal inference, mediation analysis, longitudinal data analysis
Carol Dezateux	Institute of Child Health	Professor of Paediatric Epidemiology	Early influences on child health, screening
Emla Fitzsimons	Centre for Longitudinal Studies	Professor of Economics and Director of the Millennium Cohort Study	Human capital, investment in childhood & adoselesence
Nick Fox	Institute of Neurology	Professor of Neurology	Neurodegenerative disease
Sahra Gibbon	Anthropology	Associate Professor in Anthropology	Social & cultural dimensions of cancer genomics, biosocial medical anthropology, integrating quantitative and qualitative data
Alissa Goodman	Director, Centre for Longitudinal Studies	Professor of Economics & Director of NCDS	Inequality, poverty, education, intergenerational transmission of health and wellbeing
Antonia Hamilton	Psychology & Language Sciences	Reader in Social Neuroscience	Cognitive neuroscience
Rebecca Hardy	MRC Unit for Life Long Health & Ageing	Professor of Epidemiology & Medical Statistics	Life Course Epidemiology
Andrew Hayward	Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care / Institute of Health Informatics	Professor of Epidemiology & Inclusion Health Research	Inclusion Health, Infectious Disease, Epidemiology and Control. Big data. Electronic Health Records Research
Jenny Head	Epidemiology & Public Health	Professor of Medical and Social Statistics	Statistics for Social Science & Epidemiology, working conditions
Aroon Hingorani	Director, Institute of Cardiovascular Science	Professor of Genetic Epidemiology	Genetics and epigenetics
Katherine Homewood	Anthropology Department	Professor of Human Ecology	Natural resource management and implications for human health and wellbeing
Kate Jeffery	Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience	Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience	Cognition
Yvonne Kelly	Co-Director, ICLS, Epidemiology & Public Health	Professor of Life Course Epidemiology, Director Soc-B	Life Course Epidemiology
Mika Kivimaki	Epidemiology & Public Health	Professor of Social Epidemiology	Ageing phenotypes, diabetes
Diana Kuh	Director, MRC Unit for Life Long Health & Ageing	Professor of Life Course Epidemiology	Life Course Epidemiology
Ruth Mace	Anthropology	Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology	Evolution of cultural norms, life history and life course demography, human behaviour and ecology, comparative studies
Eamon McCrory	Psychology & Language Sciences	Professor of Developmental Neuroscience & Psychopathology	Neuroscience
Anne McMunn	ICLS, Epidemiology & Public Health	Reader in Quantitative Social Science & Population Health	Social Epidemiology, gender, work, caring, family, ageing & biomarkers
Susan Michie	Psychology & Language Sciences	Professor of Health Psychology	Behavioural change in relation to health
Andrea Migliano	Anthropology Department	Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology	Hunter-gatherer genetics, behaviour and ecology, demography, life history, hunter-gatherer health
Snehal Pereira	MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing	MRC Senior Research Fellow	Life course epidemiology, ageing, health behaviours, causal inference methods
Jean-Baptiste Pingault	Psychology & Language Sciences	Lecturer in Developmental Psychopathology and Behavioural Genetics	Risk and protective developmental pathways to Mental Health, Causal inference, genetically informative designs
Hynek Pikhart	Epidemiology & Public Health	Reader in Epidemiology & Medical Statistics	Inequalities in health & social determinants of health
George Ploubidis	Research Director & Chief Statistician, Centre for Longitudinal Studies	Professor of Population Health & Statistics	Socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health, mental wellbeing, joint progress of health and mortality; applied statistical methods
Chris Power	Institute of Child Health	Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health	Life course and inter-generational epidemiology
Jugnoo Rahi	Institute of Child Health	Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology	Visual function
Marcus Richards	MRC Unit of Life Long Health & Ageing	Professor of Psychology in Epidemiology	Neurodegenerative diseases of ageing, life course approach to mental ageing
Jon Roiser	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience	Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health	Neurobiology of motivation and decision-making
Martin Rossor	Director, Dementia Research Centre	Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience, dementia
Jonathan Schott	Institute of Neurology	Reader in Clinical Neurology	Ageing, Biomedical imaging, neuroscience
Marty Sereno	Psychology & Language Sciences	Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging	Biomedical imaging, neuroscience
Nicola Shelton	Epidemiology & Public Health	Reader in Population Health	Health geography
Mai Stafford	MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing	Programme Leader	Life course approach to social and psychological wellbeing
Andrew Steptoe	Director, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care	BHF Professor of Psychology	Psychobiology, ageing epidemiology
Alice Sullivan	Centre for Longitudinal Studies	Professor of Sociology	Life course sociology
Geraint Thomas	Cell & Developmental Biology	Professor of Biochemistry	Biomedical imaging, synthetic biology
Essi Viding	Division of Psychology & Language Sciences	Professor of Developmental Psychopathology	Developmental pathways to antisocial behavior
Russell Viner	Institute of Child Health	Professor in Adolescent Health	Adolescent health
Goya Wannamethee	Primary Care and Population Health	Professor of Epidemiology	Ageing, epidemiology
Richard Watt	Department of Epidemiology & Public Health	Professor of Dental Public Health	Social determinants of oral health
Jonathan Wells	Institute of Child Health	Professor of Anthropology and Pediatric Nutrition	Pediatric body composition and energy metabolism
Dorina Cadar	Department of Epidemiology & Public Health	Research Associate	Cognitive impairment and dementia
Panos Demakakos	Department of Epidemiology & Public Health	Senior Research Fellow	Populations and Lifelong Health

Snehal Pinto Pereira	Department of Epidemiology & Public Health	Career Development Fellow	Populations and Lifelong Health
Laura Shallcross	Department of Epidemiology & Public Health	Consultant in Public Health Medicine	Health informatics
Sheena Ramsay	Department of Epidemiology & Public Health	Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health	Aging, Chronic disease, Epidemiology
Marcus Richards	MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (LHA)	Professor of Psychology in Epidemiology at the Faculty of Population Health Sciences. Scientific Programme Leader	Ageing Neuroscience Populations & Lifelong Health
David Bann	Centre for Longitudinal Studies	Associate Professor in Population Health	Populations and Lifelong Health
Praveetha Patalay	Centre for Longitudinal Studies	Associate Professor based across the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the IOE and at the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing in the Faculty of Population Health Sciences	Child Development, Epidemiology. Mental Health
Emily Woodhouse	Department of Anthropology	Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Environmental Anthropology/ Human Ecology	Environment, Human Wellbeing
Lasana T. Harris	Faculty of Brain Sciences	Senior Lecturer in Social Cognition	Experimental Psychology
Tamar Makin	Faculty of Brain Sciences	Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience	Cognitive Neuroscience, Plasticity Lab
Nichola Raihani	Faculty of Brain Sciences	Senior Research Associate	Basic Life Sciences Behaviour Change Communication, Language & Hearing Human Wellbeing
Tali Sharot	Faculty of Brain Sciences	Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience	Experimental Psychology, Affective Brain Lab
Jeremy Skipper	Faculty of Brain Sciences	Senior Lecturer Experimental Psychology	Experimental Psychology, Biomedical Imaging Communication, Language & Hearing Language, Linguistics & Literature Neuroscience
Steve Wilson	Faculty of Life Sciences	Professor of Developmental Biology	Basic Life Sciences Biomedical Imaging Genetics Neuroscience SLMS Frontier Disciplines Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
Elena Dreosti	Faculty of Life Sciences	Senior Research Associate Medical Sciences	Neuroscience
Maria Fitzgerald	Faculty of Life Sciences	Professor of Developmental Neurobiology	Basic Life Sciences Experimental Medicine Neuroscience Personalised Medicine
Stephen R. Price	Faculty of Life Sciences	Professor of Developmental Neurobiology	Basic Life Sciences Biomedical Imaging Neuroscience Reproduction & Development Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
Ralph Levinson	Faculty of Life Sciences	Reader in Education	Education