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Jessica Agnew-Blais

Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais

Senior Lecturer

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Psychiatric epidemiology, ADHD, Women's mental health, Developmental psychology
Akram Alomainy

Prof Akram Alomainy

Professor of Antennas and Applied Electromagnetics
Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research in Science and Engineering

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Antenna Engineering, Applied Electromagnetics, Biomedical and Healthcare, Communication Engineering, Radio Propagation, Wearable Technology
Annemieke Apergis-Schoute

Dr Annemieke Apergis-Schoute

Lecturer in Psychology
Psychology Ethics Committee Member & 2nd Year Tutor for Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Preoccupied Thinking, Procrastination, Student Mental Health, Prefrontal Mechanisms, Cognitive Flexibility
John Apergis-Schoute

Dr John Apergis-Schoute

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Cognition, Motivation, Neural Circuits, Functional Connectivity, Appetite, Memory
Roman Arguello

Dr Roman Arguello

Lecturer in Genetics, Genomics and Fundamental Cell Biology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
evolutionary genomics, sensory neurobiology, evo-devo, behaviour
Maria Bada

Dr Maria Bada

Lecturer in Cyberpsychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Online behaviour, Cyberpsychology, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity
Rachael Bedford

Prof Rachael Bedford

Professor in Biological and Experimental Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Autism, Neurodevelopment, Mental health, Screen Time, Infancy
Andrea Benucci

Prof Andrea Benucci

Professor in Visual Neuroscience

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
visual perception, visual cortex, optogenetics, optical imaging, animal behavior, artificial neural networks
Frederike Beyer

Dr Frederike Beyer

Senior Lecturer
Interim Head of The Department of Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Social Cognition, Stress, Aggression, Sense of Agency, Reward Processing
Daniel Bor

Dr Daniel Bor

Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Wellcome Trust Fellow

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
dementia, ageing, neuroimaging, consciousness, information theory, Alzheimer's Disease
Caroline Brennan

Prof Caroline Brennan

Professor of Molecular Genetics
Interim Head of The School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
zebrafish, development, comparative cognition, addiction, neurobiology
Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich

Dr Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich

Senior Lecturer in Organismal Biology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Functional Genomics, Disease Modelling, Developmental Biology
Lucie Charles

Dr Lucie Charles

Lecturer

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Cognitive Neuroscience, Metacognition, Decision-making, Consciousness, Introspection, Action Awareness
Guifen Chen

Dr Guifen Chen

Senior Lecturer in Neurobiology
EDI co-Lead at SBBS

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial navigation, Virtual reality, Sensory integration
Lars Chittka

Prof Lars Chittka

Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
animal cognition, sensory systems, pollination ecology, social insects, animal consciousness, animal welfare
Laura Crucianelli

Dr Laura Crucianelli

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Interoception, Body perception, Affective touch, Temperature, Multisensory integration, Mental health
Maurice Elphick

Prof Maurice Elphick

Professor of Animal Physiology and Neuroscience

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Neuropeptide, Evolution, Neurobiology, Echinoderm, Physiology
Paul Hurd

Dr Paul Hurd

Reader in Genome Regulation and Epigenetics

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Honey bee, Functional Genomics, Epigenetics, Chromatin, Phenotypic plasticity
Janelle Jones

Dr Janelle Jones

Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology
Director of Graduate Studies

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Social Connections, Identity, Health and Well-being, Older adults, The Arts, Technology
Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne

Dr Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne

Lecturer In Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Digital parenting interventions, Adolescent mental health, Digital activity, Child development
Nadine Lavan

Dr Nadine Lavan

Lecturer in Biological Psychology
Co-lead for EDI

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
voice perception, identity perception, person perception, first impressions, face perception, emotion perception
Margherita Malanchini

Dr Margherita Malanchini

Senior Lecturer

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Child development, Learning, Non-cognitive skills, Gene-environment interplay, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Behavioural Problems
Isabelle Mareschal

Prof Isabelle Mareschal

Professor of Visual Cognition

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
emotion, gaze, social interaction, adversity, global health
Giorgia Michelini

Dr Giorgia Michelini

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
ADHD, Neurodiversity, Depression, Transdiagnostic, EEG, Development
Alex Mielke

Dr Alex Mielke

Lecturer in Psychology
Open Science Lead

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Primates, Cooperation, Communication, Sequences, Grooming, Play
Bosiljka Milosavljevic

Dr Bosiljka Milosavljevic

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Neurodevelopment, Cognitive Development, Infancy, Child development, Global Health
Eda Mizrak

Dr Eda Mizrak

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
human memory, cognition, computational modelling, cognitive neuroscience
Rani Moran

Dr Rani Moran

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Decision Making, Reinforcement Learning, Cognitive Maps, Human memory, Exploration Exploitation Dillema, Metacognition
Valdas Noreika

Dr Valdas Noreika

Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Head of The Centre for Brain and Behaviour

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Sleep and dreaming, Consciousness, Inter-brain synchronisation, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Time processing, Environmental psychology
Isabel M Palacios

Dr Isabel M Palacios

Lecturer of Cell Biology
Deputy Director of Research Nanchang

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Drosophila, human organoids, human iPSCs, organogenesis, cell biophysics, cytoskeleton
Khalid Rajab

Dr Khalid Rajab

Lecturer

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Millimetrewave radar, Sensing for health and wellbeing, IoT sensors, Ambient sensing, Machine learning and AI
Emma Stewart

Dr Emma Stewart

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
visual perception, eye movements, object and shape perception, peripheral vision, visual prediction, visual inference
Angelika Stollewerk

Dr Angelika Stollewerk

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Petra Ungerer

Dr Petra Ungerer

Technical Facilities Manager

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Elisabetta Versace

Dr Elisabetta Versace

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
animal cognition, predispositions, experimental evolution, early cognition, crossmodality, dance science - positive psychology
John Viles

Dr John Viles

Reader in Biochemistry

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Amyloids, Protein Misfolding, Alzheimer's, Prions, Bioinorganic Chemistry
Yannick Wurm

Prof Yannick Wurm

Professor of Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
genome evolution, bioinformatics, ants, pollinators, pollinator health, social insects