Post-doctoral
Haya Akkad
Haya is a postdoctoral research fellow with an interest in developing mechanistically-informed neuromodulation treatments for neurological disease. She is currently using a multi-modal approach including Optically Pumped Magnetometers and functional network mapping to identify brain networks underlying neuropsychiatric symptoms in pre- and post-surgical epilepsy patients.
Doctoral
Arjun Ramaswamy I study the neural mechanisms of reward learning through reinforcement learning (RL) models applied to electrophysiological data. My PhD focuses on epilepsy and chronic cluster headache (CCH) patients with comorbid mood symptoms, using intracranial EEG (iEEG), MEG, and OPM-MEG. By linking mood, learning, and brain circuitry, my work aims to bridge computational psychiatry and translational neuroscience
Jiayi Zhu
I'm currently investigating the reliability of Magnetoencephalography (MEG) for detecting high-frequency oscillations (HFOs) in epilepsy by comparing it with intracranial electroencephalography (EEG) in a unique simultaneous dataset, aiming to improve non-invasive methods for surgical planning.
Edvards Rutkovskis
I am a third-year PhD student. The main goal of my project is to develop a prototype of an implantable selective Vagus Nerve Stimulation device for humans, aimed at treating Drug-Resistant Epilepsy and chronic Heart Failure without inducing adverse side effects
MSc students
A multimodal study of Postictal Psychosis of Epilepsy using TMS-EEG and a behavioural task coupled with high density EEG to explore putative mechanistic similarities with schizophrenia.
Seren Hawksworth
I recently completed an MSc in Clinical Neuroscience at UCL. My research project focused on the clinical and EEG features of new-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE), comparing these to non-NORSE refractory status epilepticus cases to identify early predictors of outcome.
