Postdoctoral Fellows
Shabana Khan
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017 – 2021
Postdoctoral Fellow, Beatriz Rico lab, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Katerina-Smaragda Papadopoulou
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014 – 2016
Research Associate, University College London Huntington’s Disease Centre, London, United Kingdom
Antonio Trabalza
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014 – 2016
Private sector
Graham Little
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011 – 2013
Partner, Perrett Laver, London, United Kingdom
Lieven Huang
MRC Career Development Fellow, 2009 – 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Regnerative Institute (ARMI), Monash University, Melbourne
Working on neuroregeneration
Alison Canty
MRC Career Development Fellow, 2008 – 2010
Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Australia
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellows
Jiří Růžička
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow from The Czech Academy of Sciences, 2017
Ilse Pienaar
Junior Research Fellow, 2014
Working on opto- and pharmaco-genetic stimulation of cholinergic pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) neurons in a Parkinson’s model
Michele Ettorre
Visiting CooperInt Program Fellow, 2013
Research Scientist, GSK
Dawn Thompson
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011 – 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow, The William Harvey Research Institute, London, United Kingdom
Jo Jackson
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010 – 2011
Research Scientist, Eli Lilly, working on in vivo imaging of synapses in Alzheimer’s disease models
Valentina Ferretti
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bill Wisden’s group, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Graduate Students
Raquel Real
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) PhD Student, 2015 – 2018
Clinical Research Fellow, Institute of Neurology, University College London, United Kingdom
Cher Bass
EPSRC-funded Neurotechnology Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) PhD Student, 2014 – 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Carla Pernaci
MSc Erasmus+ Student Intern, 2018
PhD Student, Smita Saxena’s group, University of Bern, Switzerland
Lucien West
PhD Student, 2012 – 2016
Advanced Imaging Specialist, Nikon Instruments UK
Peter Bloomfield
PhD Student, 2011 – 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bill Richardson’s group, University College London, United Kingdom
Federico Grillo
PhD Student, 2009 – 2013
Postdoctoral Fellow, Juan Burrone’s group, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Working on axon initial segment plasticity
Visiting Graduate Students
Joanna Dopp
Visiting Network Centre Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) Student, 2017
Research Technician, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium
Tomaso Muzzu
Visiting PhD Student, Bioengineering (Simon Schultz, Imperial College London, United Kingdom), 2012
Working on awake behavior and synaptic imaging
Caroline Copland
Visiting MRes Integrative Biomedical Sciences Student, 2009
Lecturer in Neuropharmacology, St George’s, University of London, United Kingdom
Undergraduate Students
Beatrice da Via
Erasmus+ Student Intern, 2019
MSc Student, University of Milan, Italy
Hewa Khalilifar
BSc Neuroscience Intern, 2017
BSc Neuroscience, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Maksim Lavrov
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Student, 2017
MEng Biomedical Engineering Student, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Martyna Rakowska
BBSRC Research Experience Placements (REP) Student, 2017
BSc Neuroscience Student, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Godwin Tong
BDIAP Scholarship Student, 2016
Medical Student, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Magda Robacha
2014
PhD Student, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Catherine Wrench
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Student, 2014
PhD Student, Imperial College London, UK
Sara Camporesi
Medical Studentship Intern, 2012
Neurology Resident, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
Cornelia Roibu
MRC-funded Student, 2012
MBiochem Student, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Cyrus Darawulla
MRC-funded Student, 2011
Medical Student, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christina Nesarajah
MRC-funded Student, 2011
Medical Student, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Leonor Ruivo
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Student, Imperial College London, 2010 – 2011
PhD Student, Jack Mellor’s group, Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Julia Hines
MRC-funded Student, 2010
Medical Student, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Jana Kalz
Erasmus student, 2010
Biology Student, University of Berlin, Germany
Akin Nihat
MRC-funded Student, 2010
Clinical Research Fellow, MRC Prion Unit, University College London, United Kingdom
Melanie Strauss
Erasmus Student, 2009
Medical Student, Paris Descartes University (Paris V), France
Visiting Undergraduate Students
Federica Perrone
Visiting Undergraduate Student, 2012
PhD Student, KU Leuven, Belgium
Support Staff
Lydia Lawson
Administrative Assistant, 2011 – 2015
Hamlata Dechwand
Research Assistant, 2008 – 2010
Tathiana Santana
Administrative Assistant, 2008 – 2010
Collaborators
Rick Livesey
2015 – 2018
The Gurdon Institute
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Oliver Howes
2013 – 2017
Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Science
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom
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Psychosis Clinical Academic Group
Institute of Psychiatry
King’s College London
London, United Kingdom
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Sen Song
2005 – 2013
Department of Biomedical Engineering
School of Medicine
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
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Anne McKinney
1998 – 2005
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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Silvia Arber
1998 – 2003
Biozentrum
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland
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Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Basel, Switzerland
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