Lab members

Katja Kornysheva, PhD, k.kornysheva@bham.ac.uk 

Associate Professor in Human Neuroscience

Staff page | GoogleScholar | LinkedIn | Bluesky

Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH), School of Psychology, University of Birmingham

Simon Marchant, PhD, s.marchant@bham.ac.uk | LinkedIn

Coen Zandvoort, PhD, c.zandvoort@bham.ac.uk | LinkedIn

Diar Abdlkarim, PhD, d.abdlkarim@bham.ac.uk | LinkedIn | https://www.diarkarim.com/ 

Helena Wright, MSc, hxw544@student.bham.ac.uk | LinkedIn

Shixiao Wang, MSc, sxw1238@student.bham.ac.uk | LinkedIn

Julia (Ziwei) Yin, MSc, pxa087@student.bham.ac.uk | LinkedIn (Co-supervised with Jian Liu)

Poppy Aves, MSc, pxa087@student.bham.ac.uk  | LinkedIn (Co-supervised with Joe Galea)

Charlotte Roberts, MSc (Start date: September 2025)

Sophia Seridarian, BSc, MSc student

Lana Whitmarsh, BSc

• Elijah Odunsi, BSc, MSc, e.odunsi@bham.ac.uk (former MSc student)

• Kieran Phalke, BSc, MSc, k.p.phalke@bham.ac.uk  | LinkedIn (former MSc student)

• Martin Geiger, Research Assistant, MSc, m.geiger@bham.ac.uk | LinkedIn -> PhD student, University of Stuttgart

• Rhys Yewbrey, PhD student, PhD viva: 2024 (without corrections) |  r.yewbrey@bangor.ac.uk | r.yewbrey@bham.ac.uk |  @yewbrey -> UK Government, Data analyst,

• Charlotte Wissing, Visiting MSc student 2023/24 (Narain lab, Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, NL) 

• Myrto Mantziara, PhD student, PhD viva: 2022 (without corrections) | LinkedIn -> Lecturer in Human Physiology & Neurobiology, SCG Scientific College of Greece, Athens

• Dr Mike Gilbert, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (Computational Neuroscience), Visiting fellow

• Tom Brodin, BSc student (2023/24)

• Zoe Hillmann, BSc student (2023/24)

• Jessica La, BSc student (2023/24)

• Christian Logan, BSc student (2023/24)

• Lin Luo, BSc student (2023/24)

• Sarah Maxwell, BSc student (2023/24)

• Darshan Gohil, MSc student (2022/23)

• Deborah Lee, MSc student (2022/23)

• Amelia Carter, BSc student (2022/23)

• Holly Clark, BSc student (2022/23)

• Charlotte Lemon, BSc student (2022/23)

• Archie Robertson, BSc student (2022/23)

• Florence Sargent, BSc student (2022/23)

• Mohammed Shakeel, BSc student (2022/23)

• Aditya Umarjikar, MSc intern (2021/22)

• Tianli Wan, BSc, MSc student (2021/22), Computer Science

• Ferrida Ponce, MSc student (2020/21) -> PhD student, Bangor University

• Wong Ye Heng, MSc student (2020/21)

• Hannah Baker, MSc student (2020/21)

• Shannon French, BSc student (2020/21)

• Ellie Harrison, BSc student (2020/21)

• Olivia, Lindsey-Bowen, BSc student (2020/21)

• Tyler Moore, BSc student (2020/21) -> MSc student, University of Exeter 

• Hristian Vutov, BSc student (2020/21)

• Kay Wheeler, BSc student (2020/21)

• Tsvetoslav Ivanov, MSc student (2019/20) -> PhD student in Computational Psychiatry, University of Bristol

• Hawra Alawami, MSc student (2019/20)

• Shilpa Kannan, MSc student (2019/20)

• Christian Baskerville, BSc student (2019/20)

• Elli Dvorakovska, BSc student (2019/20)

• Ed Gilligan-Davis, BSc student (2019/20)

• Natasha Groves, BSc student (2019/20)

• Lauren King, BSc student (2019/20)

• Neelambika Sanath, BSc student (2019/20)

• Sophie Baille, Lab intern (Summer Internship Scheme 2019)

• Masuma Payamon, Lab Intern (2018/2019) -> MSc student in Neuroscience at Oxford University

• Mat McAll, BSc student (2018/19)

• Ginny Whiteside, BSc student (2018/19)

• Robert Owen, BSc student (2018/19)

• Hannah Elizabeth Clegg, MSc student (2017/18, co-supervised with Dr. Ken Valyear) -> Research Assistant at MRC-CBU, University of Cambridge

• Sam Webb, BSc student (2017/18) and lab intern -> MSc student in Psychological Research at Oxford University

• Jiri Benacek, BSc student (2017/18) and lab intern -> MSc student in Computational Neuroscience at University of Edinburgh

• Megan Woodruff, BSc student (2017/18)

• Bryony Williams, BSc student (2017/18)

• Rebecca Robinson, BSc student (2017/18)

• Fiona Rankin, BSc student (2017/18)