2026
July 2026: Kyungmin has been awarded the Royal Society International Exchanges Grant. This funding will support international academic exchange and research partnership with Dr. Margot Taylor’s team at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, establishing a foundation for future collaboration.
July, 2026: Kyungmin will give a talk at FLUX Toolkit 2026 | Neuronal Oscillation at Oxford University.
July 2026: Congratulations to Aishwarya Lutchman Singh, Luke Coen, Nadia Majeed, Zakiyyah Wali, and Anjli Lathia on graduating with their undergraduate degrees! 🎓
June 2026: Jaeyoung and Kyungmin presented posters at OHBM 2026 conference, Bordeaux.
June 2026: Our paper, A novel transformer architecture for EEG decoding and neuroscientific analysis, developed in collaboration with Prof. Hong Gi Yeom, our visiting professor in 2025, has been published in Scientific Reports: A novel transformer architecture for EEG decoding and neuroscientific analysis
June 2026: Well done, James Williamson, Valeria Monterrubio Leija, and Jerry Wong on their successful MSc dissertation poster presentations!
June 2026: Welcome to Jingyi Mai, Dylan Marsh, Kiera Scorer, Nour Hussain, Amelia Flaxman, Tristan Hicks, Emily Spooner, Niamh Campbell, and Yelena van de Coevering, who have joined our lab as UG dissertation students!
April 2026: Kyungmin visited KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) and Misistry of Health and Welfare, The Government of the Republic of Korea. Kyungmin gave several invited talks at Seoul National University College of Medicine, Busan national University, and KRISS (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science).
March 2026: Luke Coen, Anjli Lathia, Nadia Majeed, Zakiyyah Wali, and Aishwarya Lutchman Singh presented their research at the University of Birmingham School of Psychology Poster Event. Well done, everyone!
January 2026: Prof. Yuko Yoshimura and Prof. Takashi Ikeda (Kanazawa University, Japan), Prof. Koichi Yokosawa will visit our lab for Discussion on Child OPM-MEG Research.
2025
December 2025, Gyu-rim Hwang (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, The Government of the Republic of Korea) is visiting our lab for six months! Welcome!
October 2025: Welcome to James Williamson, Valeria Monterrubio Leija, and Jerry Wong, who have started their MSc courses!
September 2025: Kyungmin is visiting and giving an invited talk at Chungbuk Quantum Research Center (CBQRC), South Korea.
August 2025: Kyungmin is giving an invited talk at Seoul National University, Learning Sciences Research Institute.
July 2025: Congratulations to Alysha Rashid, Blazej Jurczyk, Fatima Farooq, Fatoumata Diallo, Lana Whitmarsh, Olivia Francis, and Philip Press on graduating with their undergraduate degrees! 🎓
June 2025: Welcome to Aishwarya Lutchman Singh, Luke Coen, Nadia Majeed, Zakiyyah Wali, and Anjli Lathia, who have joined our lab as UG dissertation students!
May 2025: Our lab Dinner after lab meeting. Thank you everyone for joining!
March 2025: Alysha Rashid, Blazej Jurczyk, Fatima Farooq, Fatoumata Diallo, Lana Whitmarsh, Olivia Francis, and Philip Press presentted their research at the University of Birmingham School of Psychology Poster Event. Well done, everyone!
Philip Press awarded the Staff-nominated Prize and the Student-nominated "Most surprising finding" prize, Olivia Francis awarded the Student-nominated "Most entertaining poster" prize, and Fatima Farooq awarded the Student-nominated "Best-looking poster" prize.Â
2024
December 2024: Congratulations to Anupreetha Menon and Shrisha Sathishkumar on completing their MSc degrees! 🎓
December 2024, Seah Kim (Minister of Health and Welfare, The Government of the Republic of Korea) is visiting our lab for six months! Welcome!
October 2024: Shrisha and Anu presented their posters at MEG-UKI 2024.Â
Octover 2024: Kyungmin attended the Korean Researchers Association in the UK (KRAUK) East-West Midlands chapter meeting. It was a meaningful opportunity to meet and network with fellow Korean researchers and professors from various fields, fostering insightful academic exchanges.
September 2024: Kyungmin gave a presentation at Workshop on New Methods in Infant Sensory Development.
August 2024: Kyungmin and Alice attended BIOMAG 2024, at Sydney with collaborators and colleagues.Â
July 2024: Congratulations to Rachel Wilkins, Myah Mahal, Kate Wileman, Mohammed Choudry, Daniel Cooper, Maariya Waheed, Alissa Merry, and Samuel Potter, on graduating with their undergraduate degrees! 🎓
June 2024: Congratulations to Anupreetha Menon and Shrisha Sathishkumar on their successful MSc dissertation poster presentations!
Lovely group photo with MSc CNCR students.
June 2024: Welcome to Alysha Rashid, Blazej Jurczyk, Fatima Farooq, Fatoumata Diallo, Lana Whitmarsh, Olivia Francis, and Philip Press, who have joined our lab as UG dissertation students!
June 2024: Kyungmin will give a presentation at FLUX Toolkit 2024 | Neuronal Oscillation.
May 2024: Alice Waitt has joined as postdoctoral researcher for BBSRC Pioneer Project.
March 2024: Kyungmin will give a presentation at English Language and Applied Linguistics Research Seminar.
March 2024, Prof. Yuko Yoshimura (Kanazawa University, Japan) is visiting our lab for Research Workshop.
February 2024, Prof. Hong Ki Yeom (Chosun University, Korea) is visiting our lab for one year! Welcome!
January 2024: Kyungmin will give several invited talks in Korea and Japan, at Osaka University, Kanazawa University Hospital, Seoul National University Department of Psychology, and GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology).
2023
December 2023: Congratulations to Eve Talyor and Emily Wilson on completing their MSc degrees! 🎓
November 2023, Kyungmin will present a poster at SfN 2023.
October 2023, Kyungmin will present a poster at MEG-UKI 2023.
October 2023: Kyungmin will give a talk at Ole Jensen's Group workshop (Wellcome Trust Funding).
October 2023: Welcome to Anupreetha Menon and Shrisha Sathishkumar, who have started their MSc courses!
July 2023, KyungMin receives BBSRC Pioneer Awards funding to conduct research on "Brain mechanisms underlying emotional processing in infants".Â
>> "A Postdoc position opening is coming soon!"
July 2023: KyungMin receives SMQB Seedcorn funding to conduct research on "Developing Early Diagnostic Methods for Autism using MEG and Novel Graph Neural Network".
June 2023: Welcome to Rachel Wilkins, Myah Mahal, Kate Wileman, Mohammed Choudry, Daniel Cooper, Maariya Waheed, Alissa Merry, and Samuel Potter, who have joined our lab as UG dissertation students!
June 2023: Congratulations to Eve Talyor and Emily Wilson on their successful MSc dissertation poster presentations.Â
March 25-28th 2023: KyungMin is presenting at the 30th Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2023, San Francisco.
March 2024: Rachel Wilkins, Myah Mahal, Kate Wileman, Mohammed Choudry, Daniel Cooper, Maariya Waheed, Alissa Merry, and Samuel Potter presentted their research at the University of Birmingham School of Psychology Poster Event. Well done, everyone!
December 2022/January 2023: KyungMin will give several invited talks in South Korea, at Seoul National University Hospital, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Kyungpook National University, Handong Global University, and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST).
2022
December 9th 2022: KyungMin is giving an invited talk at the workshop on "Shaping Human Memories Via Sensory Entrainment" at the University of Glasgow.
November 12-16th 2022: KyungMin is presenting at the Society of Neuroscience 2022, San Diego.
October 26th 2022: KyungMin published her research paper on "Detection of the 40 Hz auditory steady-state response with optically pumped magnetometers" in Scientific Reports.
October 2022: Welcome to Eve Talyor and Emily Wilson, who have started their MSc courses!
October 12th 2022: KyungMin is presenting at the UoB OPM Symposium.
August 29th - September 1st 2022: KyungMin is presenting at BIOMAG 2022, Birmingham.
June 23rd 2022: KyungMin gave a talk at the Korea Research Institute for Standards and Science (KRISS).
June 1st 2022: KyungMin An's lab moved to the CHBH (Centre for Human Brain Health), School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.