2020 Students
Ella Svahn
I am interested in the neurobiology and neural circuit mechanisms underlying cognition.
MacAskill Lab
Email | ella.svahn.20@ucl.ac.uk
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Bio | The University of Edinburgh, BSc Hons in Neuroscience (2015-2019)
Awards | Best Neuroscience Dissertation Award (2019) | EuroLife scholarship (2018) | The Haggarty-Weir scholarship awarded for ‘Great contribution to biomedical research’ (2016)
Funding | EPSRC
Matilda Cloves
I am interested in linking different anatomical scales of neural computation. I want to understand how individual neurons integrate information and how this relates to their participation in local circuitry and the networks of circuits underlying behaviour.
Margrie Lab
Email | tilly.cloves.15@ucl.ac.uk
Web | ORCID
Bio | Research Assistant, University College London, Neural Computation Lab, (2019-2020) | University College London, MSci Hons in Neuroscience (2015-2019)
Funding | Wellcome
Shu En Lim
I am interested in illuminating nanoscale dynamics driving cellular organisation using super resolution microscopy and AI.
Mao Lab
Email | shu.lim.15@ucl.ac.uk
Bio | University College London, MSci in Natural Sciences (Physics and Molecular and Cell Biology) (2015-2019)
Awards | Best Biological Physics MSci Presentation (2019)
Funding | Wellcome
Courtney Lancaster
I am interested in developmental biology in order to understand how different tissues form and shape themselves concomitant with cell fate decisions.
Pichaud Lab
Email | courtney.lancaster.20@ucl.ac.uk
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Bio | Durham University, MBiol in Biological Sciences (2016-2020)
Awards | Durham MBiol research project prize (2020) | Development module prize (2018) | BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship awardee (2018)
Funding | Wellcome
Quentin Pajot-Moric
I am interested in the neural circuits involved in memory, motivation and decision making.
Akrami Lab
Email | quentin.pajot-moric.16@ucl.ac.uk
Web | ORCID
Bio | University College London, MSci Hons in Neuroscience (2016-2020)
Funding | Wellcome
2021 Students
Matthias Loidolt
I want to understand how molecules and cells self-organize into living beings that have shape, agency and experiences. I build microscopes to observe and manipulate living matter at the tissue scale, and aspire to find mathematical models of the collective dynamics that bring it alive.
Email | matthias.loidolt.21@ucl.ac.uk
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Bio | MPI-DS Goettingen, Research Assistant in Neural Systems Theory (2020-2021) | MPI-CBG Dresden, Research Assistant in Biophotonics and Self-Organization (2019) | DPAG Oxford, Research Intern in All-Optical Interrogation of Neural Circuits (2018) | |TU Dresden, BSc in Physics (2015-2020) | NTNU Trondheim, Erasmus Semester in Biophysics (2018)
Awards International Scholar Award for Doctoral Training Centres (University College London, 2021-2025) | SMART START Studentship in Computational Neuroscience (Bernstein Network and Volkswagen Foundation, 2019-2021) | Erasmus+ Scholarship (European Union, 2018)
Funding | Wellcome
Friedrich Kling
My research interests include circuit neuroscience with a special interest in intracortical processing and how the neuronal input-output relationship is shaped on the cellular level by dendritic active events and input clustering. My goal is to understand how the concerted firing of cellular ensembles gives rise to perception and cognition.
Email | friedrich.kling.19@ucl.ac.uk
Bio Research intern, Häusser Lab, UCL (2020 – 2021) | Charite Universiy Medicine Berlin, research Intern in Larkum Lab (2021) | MSc Neuroscience at UCL (2019 – 2020) | Translational Neurodegeneration Section, “Albrecht-Kossel” Rostock, research intern in treatment of rare genetic diseases (2016) | BSc Biology at Free University Berlin (2015 – 2019)
Awards Dean’s list nomination MSc Neuroscience 2020 | BSc thesis awarded with Katharina Heinroth Prize
Funding | Wellcome
Laurence Freeman
I’m driven to understand the neural computations and circuitry that underpin memory, learning and decision making with the ultimate goal of contributing to the technological development of brain computer interfaces (BCIs).
Email | laurence.freeman.19@ucl.ac.uk
Web | ORCID
Bio | Msc Neuroscience, Carandini and Harris lab supervised by Kevin Miller, UCL (2019-2021) | Software product manager at start-up (2017-2021) | Consultant, Accenture (2015-2017) | Msc Business Management, The University of Edinburgh (2015) | Consultant, Deloitte summer vacation scheme (2015) | Bsc Marine Biology and Animal Behaviour, Anglia Ruskin (2011-2014) | Officer in training, British Military (2011-2014)
Funding | Wellcome
Joanna Aloor
I am interested in exploring how neural circuits give rise to function, with a particular interest in neuromodulatory systems and learning.
Email | joanna.aloor.16@ucl.ac.uk
Bio | Research Assistant, Wilson lab, UCL (2020-2021) | MSci Cell Biology, UCL (2016 - 2020)
Funding | Wellcome
Irene Salgarella
I am interested in dissecting neural circuits of behaviour and understanding how they are influenced by internal states.
Email | irene.salgarella.21@ucl.ac.uk
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Bio | Research Assistant at University of Cambridge (2020 - 2021) | Research Technician at King's College London (2019 - 2020) | Erasmus+ Trainee Student at King's College London (2018 - 2019) | International Master's Degree in Neuroscience at Universita' degli Studi di Trieste - 110 cum laude / 110 (2016 -2019) | Research intern at Universita' degli Studi di Padova (2015) | BSc in Molecular Biology at Universita' degli Studi di Padova (2012 - 2015)
Awards | Wohl Cellular Imaging Centre competition (2019) | Erasmus+ Traineeship Fellowship (2018 - 2019)
Funding | Wellcome