Dr Sarah Morgan- Principal Investigator
Sarah is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. She also holds visiting appointments at Cambridge University Department of Computer Science and Technology and the Cambridge Psychiatry Department. Sarah is a Physicist by training and holds a PhD in theoretical Physics from the Theory of Condensed Matter group, Cambridge.
Ashleigh Davies- PhD student (King’s)
Ashleigh’s research focuses on applying MIND to study brain connectivity changes during early life development. She is co-supervised by Prof. Tomoki Arichi, Head of the Department of Early Life Imaging at King’s College London. Ashleigh is funded by an EPSRC DTP scholarship.
Ben Chidiac- PhD student (Cambridge)
Ben is a PhD student on the Doctoral Training Programme in Medical Research at Cambridge University. He is co-supervised by Prof. Petra Vertes and Dr Sarah Morgan. His research explores how multimodal brain connectivity and gene expression data can be combined through network science and machine learning to better characterise and treat various psychiatric disorders.
Shrankhla Pandey- PhD student (Cambridge)
Shrankhla’s research focuses on harnessing the power of speech processing, clinical decision support systems, natural language processing, machine learning methods, health, and wearable technologies. She aims to leverage these tools to enhance prevention, remission, and management of mental health conditions such as psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety. Shrankhla’s PhD is funded by a scholarship from the WD Armstrong Trust Fund and the Accelerate Science programme. She is co-supervised by Prof. Graham Murray and Dr Sarah Morgan.
Zhiyuan Song- PhD student (Cambridge)
Zhiyuan’s research focuses on predicting dementia trajectories for people with Down’s Syndrome, using data from a range of modalities, including brain MRI. Zhiyuan is co-supervised by Dr Shahid Zaman and Dr Sarah Morgan.
Alumni
Dr Isaac Sebenius- Medical Student at Harvard University, former PhD student
Isaac is interested in developing new computational methods that leverage biological knowledge to address open questions related to mental health and psychiatric disorders. During his time in the group, Isaac led the development of MIND to compute robust structural similarity networks.
Dr Abigail Gee- PhD student at King’s College London, former Academic Clinical Fellow
Abbie is an Academic Clinical Fellow with broad interests in clinical psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging and qualitative research to make translational discoveries that improve the lives of patients.
Rebeca Ianov Vitanov- PhD student at Cambridge University, former MPhil student
Rebeca uses network neuroscience approaches to study functional brain connectivity in young people at neurodevelopmental risk, in the CALM dataset. She is particularly interested in identifying connectivity markers of psychopathology and understanding how these might relate to learning outcomes.
Dr Marcella Montagnese– Postdoc at Cambridge University, former visiting PhD student
Marcella works on the neural and cognitive correlates of Parkinson’s Disease psychosis. To that end, she employs multimodal imaging techniques (resting state fMRI, structural and diffusion imaging) and combines them with network neuroscience, transcriptomics, and receptor maps approaches.
Dr Caroline Nettkoven-Research Fellow at Western University, London Ontario, Canada, former postdoc
Caro is a neuroscientist interested in how different brain regions work together to achieve complex behaviours. She also studies how disrupted communication between brain regions leads to disordered behaviour and has a particular interest in the cerebellum. During her time in the group, she worked on new NLP techniques to capture altered patterns of language use in mental health conditions.
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