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Vincenzo De Paola
Group Head
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Elizabeth Brockman
PhD Student and Early Stage Researcher in the Syn2Psy Innovative Training Network, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Initiative, October 2019
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Michael Lattke
Research Associate, November 2021
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Victoria Menne
Erasmus+ MSc Student, November 2020

Tommy Ngo
MRes Student in Neurotechnology, October 2020

Maria Otero Jimenez
MRC Doctoral Training Partnership (MRC DTP) PhD Student, March 2021
Co-supervised by Javier Alegre, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London

Marcos Sintes
PhD Student and Early Stage Researcher in the Syn2Psy Innovative Training Network, funded by the EU Horizon 2021 Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Initiative, November 2020

Maria Tortora
PhD Student funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) PhD Scholarship, July 2017
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VISITORS


Oshiorenoya Agabi
PhD Student, Bioengineering (Simon Schultz, Imperial College London)
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SUPPORT STAFF


Dulcie Rodrigues
Administrative Assistant

COLLABORATORS


Nir Grossman
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom
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Graham Knott
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
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Boaz Levi
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Dean Nizetic
Nanyang Technical University
Singapore
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Subhojit Roy
University of California San Diego (UCSD)
San Diego, California, USA
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Maria Grazia Spillantini
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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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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