CV

Professional Experience

• 2026 - Present: Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • University of Oxford
  • Projects: Disentangling the behavioural and neural roles of serotonin and dopamine
  • Supervisors: Nima Khalighinejad & Matthew Rushworth
• 2024 - 2026: Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Athinoula A. Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging
  • Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital (in close collaboration with Yale)
  • Projects: Neuromodulatory nucleus activity and connectivity underlying cognitive and depressive symptoms in prelinical Alzheimer’s disease
  • Supervisors: Heidi Jacobs & Jorge Sepulcre

Education

• Ph.D. in Neuroimaging, King’s College London, 2024
  • Thesis: Molecular-enriched Functional Networks Underlying Consciousness and Cognition
  • Passed without corrections
  • Supervisors: Mathew Howard, Ottavia Dipasquale, Marzia Malcangio
• M.Sc. in Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, 2019
  • Distinction (2nd highest mark in cohort - 76%)
  • Thesis: Cerebellar Correlates of Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson’s Disease, Charles Bonnet Syndrome, and Schizophrenia
  • Supervisor: Dominic ffytche
• B.Sc. in Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology, King’s College London, 2018
  • First class honours (3rd highest mark in cohort - 78%)
  • Thesis: Translational Barriers in Neuropathic Pain Research
  • Supervisor: Peter McNaughton

Continued Education

• Applied Biostatistics, Harvard Medical School, 2024-2025
• HST.583: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Data Acquisition and Analysis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2024 (Audited)

Research Skills

• Programming
  • Python, R, Matlab, Bash
  • High-performance computing using Sun Grid Engines and Slurm
• Neuroimaging
  • FSL, AFNI, SPM, Freesurfer, fMRIprep
• Data Analysis
  • Large datasets (N > 500)
  • Highly multi-modal and multivariate methods
• Visualization
  • Strong graphic design skills across multiple software packages

Grants and Awards

• Brainstem Cost Action Young Researcher and Innovator Conference grant (€950)
• Best Poster Prize – The Integrative Neuromodulatory Subcortical Systems (INSS) meeting (2025)
• Travel grant: Human Amyloid Imaging - $600 (2024)
• Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust – co-award - £40,000 (2024)
• Short listed – BRUK Traumatic brain injury fund - £300,000 (2024)
• Best Innovation and Translation talk at the KCL School of Neuroscience Symposium (2023)
• Best 3-minute-thesis presentation: NIHR Maudsley BRC (2022)
• NIHR Grant Writing retreat - ~£500 (2022)
• NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) 4-year PhD studentship - ~£150,000 (2019)
• KCL Neuroscience Symposium Best poster (2019)
• NIHR Academy Members Conference - ~£500 (2019)
• MSc: Clinical Neuroscience medal for consistently achieving outstanding results (2019)
• MSc: Clinical Neuroscience academic scholarship - ~£10,000 (2018)
• BSc: Biomedical Science Prize (highest achieving student in faculty) nominee (2018)
• BSc: Highest achieving student in Perspectives on Pain and CNS disorders (2018)
• BSc: Best Ex vivo neuroanatomy examination award (2017)

Selected Invited Talks

• 2026 Neuroimaging without a scanner: making the most of open data - Studying the Human Brain NeuroimEx, Exeter University, UK
• 2025: Pushing forwards clinical neuroscience with brainstem fMRI - Yale MRRC Neuroscience Seminar Series, New Haven, USA
• 2025: Functional submodules in the human locus Coeruleus are differentially susceptible to tau pathology - Human Amyloid Imaging, Puerto Rico, USA
• 2024: Transcending organisational hierarchies with Molecular-enriched fMRI - Athinoula A. Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging, Cambridge, USA
• 2024: Transdiagnostic multi-modal imaging in psychiatry - Holmes Lab (Yale), New Haven, USA
• 2023: Parsing psychiatric heterogeneity with molecular-enriched fMRI and normative modelling - KCL School of Neuroscience Symposium, London, UK
• 2022: Multi-modal analysis of neuromodulatory systems - Shine Lab (Sydney), Sydney, Australia
• 2022: Pain in the neurodegenerating brain: implications for pharmacotherapy - The Oxford Advanced Pain and Symptom Management Course, Oxford, UK
• 2022: The molecular-enriched functional circuits underlying consciousness and cognition - IOPPN Brilliant Minds Lecture Series, London, UK

Teaching

• Supervised two BSc project students, one of whom went directly into a PhD (2022-2023)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for KCL MSc Clinical Neuroscience (2020-2023)
• Assessor for KCL BSc module “Perspectives on Pain & CNS Disorders” (2018-2024)
• Ex vivo surface neuroanatomy demonstrator (2019-2022)
• Neurophysiology demonstrator (2019-2021)
• Private academic Tutor (Maths, Biology, and Combined Sciences from primary school to A-levels) (2014-2018)