Dr Saba Gharaei

Postdoctoral research fellow

The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra

Research interests

Saba is using rodent superior colliculus as a model to study higher cognitive functions such as attention. She is currently investigating the role of superior colliculus in cortical processing of sensory information.

Technical Skills

• in-vivo electrophysiological recording (single unit, whole-cell)
• optogenetic techniques
• animal behaviour
• experience with rodents and non-human primates
• Matlab programming

Recent papers

Harris, J.A., Patterson, A.E. & Gharaei, S. (2015). Pavlovian conditioning and cumulative reinforcement rate. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition. 41(2), 137-151. [abstract]

Gharaei, S., Tailby, C., Solomon, S. S. and Solomon, S. G. (2013), Texture-dependent motion signals in primate middle temporal area. The Journal of Physiology, 591: 5671–5690. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2013.257568 [abstract]

Solomon, S. S., Tailby, C., Gharaei, S., Camp, A. J., Bourne, J. A. and Solomon, S. G. (2011), Visual motion integration by neurons in the middle temporal area of a New World monkey, the marmoset. The Journal of Physiology, 589: 5741–5758. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2011.213520 [abstract]

Dr Johan van der Meer

Postdoctoral research fellow

QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane

Research interests

Johan is interested in Neurofeedback: a technique in which people learn to modulate and control their brain activity by looking at a real-time display of their brain waves. Johan investigates how this learning process develops over time throughout the training, and why it works well for some people, but not at all for others.

Technical skills

• EEG, fMRI and multimodal EEG/fMRI data acquisition
• MRI pulse sequence development and MR physics
• Programming in Python and MATLAB
• Clinical applied research and clinical trails

Recent papers

van der Meer JN, Pampel A, Van Someren EJ, Ramautar JR, van der Werf YD, Gomez-Herrero G, Lepsien J, Hellrung L, Hinrichs H, Möller HE, Walter M. (2016). Carbon-wire loop based artifact correction outperforms post-processing EEG/fMRI corrections-A validation of a real-time simultaneous EEG/fMRI correction method. Neuroimage, 125:880-94. [abstract]

van der Meer JN, Pampel A, Van Someren EJ, Ramautar JR, van der Werf YD, Gomez-Herrero G, Lepsien J, Hellrung L, Hinrichs H, Möller HE, Walter M.  (2016). “Eyes Open – Eyes Closed” EEG/fMRI data set including dedicated “Carbon Wire Loop” motion detection channels. Data in Brief, 7:990–94. [abstract]

van der Meer JN, Heijtel DF, van Hest G, Plattèl GJ, van Osch MJ, van Someren EJ, Vanbavel ET, Nederveen AJ. (2014). Acoustic noise reduction in pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL). Magn Reson Mater Phy (2014) 27: 269. [abstract]

Dr Xiao (Demi) Gao

Postdoctoral research fellow

The University of Sydney, Sydney

Research interests

Demi’s research lies at the interface of computational neuroscience and neural engineering. She is interested in brain connectivity and dynamics, neural signal processing, and the use of artificial neural networks and machine learning for biomedical applications.

Technical skills

• Computational neuroscience
• Computational models and data analysis
• Machine learning and information theoretic analysis in biomedical applications
• Matlab, Python, C++, JavaScript and SQL

Recent papers

Gao, X., Grayden, D.B. and McDonnell, M.D. (2017). Modeling electrode place discrimination in cochlear implant stimulation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 64, 2219-2229. [abstract]

McDonnell, M.D. and Gao, X. (2015). M-ary suprathreshold stochastic resonance: Generalization and scaling beyond binary threshold nonlinearities. Europhysics Letters, Vol. 108, 60003. [abstract]

Gao, X., Grayden, D.B., and McDonnell, M.D. (2014). Stochastic information transfer from cochlear implant electrodes to auditory nerve fibers. Physical Review E, Vol. 90, 022722. [abstract]

Daniel Fehring

PhD scholar

Monash University, Melbourne

Research interests

Daniel’s research focuses on cognitive neuroscience, the study of how the brain creates thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and memories. He studies how brain areas such as the prefrontal and insula cortex contribute to high-level, “executive” capabilities, including decision making, conflict resolution, and inhibition of inappropriate responses. Daniel also studies how modulating activity in these areas, for example using electrical stimulation, alters cognitive performance.

Technical skills

• developing, conducting and analysing psychophysical experiments
• programming for data collection and analysis (C++ and Matlab)
• non-invasive brain stimulation (transcranial Direct Current Stimulation or tDCS)
• conducting cognitive tests in animal models

Recent papers

Mansouri, F. A., Fehring, D. J., Gaillard, A., Jaberzadeh, S., & Parkington, H. (2016). Sex dependency of inhibitory control functions. Biology of sex differences, 7(1), 1 [abstract]

Mansouri, F. A., Fehring, D. J., Feizpour, A., Gaillard, A., Rosa, M., Rajan, R., & Jaberzadeh, S. (2016). Direct current stimulation of prefrontal cortex modulates error‐induced behavioral adjustments. European Journal of Neuroscience [abstract]

Natasha Gabay

PhD scholar

The University of Sydney, Sydney

Research interests

Natasha works with a mathematical model of the activity of nerve cells on the surface of the brain’s cortex. Her particular interests are in the interactions between brain areas that occur when a person is awake but not performing a specific task, that is their mind is just wandering. Understanding the properties of these interactions, and their relation to structures in the cortex, in this model of the healthy brain will allow her to explore how they are altered in people with dementia or schizophrenia.

Technical skills

• programming (including Matlab, Java, and C)
• computational modelling and theoretical analysis

Recent papers

Gabay, N., and Menicucci, N. C. (2016). Passive interferometric symmetries of multimode Gaussian pure states. Physical Review A, 93(5), 052326 [abstract]

Alexander, R.N., Gabay, N., Rohde, P.P., and Menicucci, N.C. (2016). Measurement-Based Linear Optics. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.00446 [abstract]

Dr Ehsan Kheradpezhouh

Postdoctoral research fellow

Australian National University, Canberra

Research interests

Ehsan researches how sensory information is processed in the rodent brain, using pharmaceutical agents and light (optogenetics) to alter nerve cell function.

Technical skills

• electrophysiology: in vivo and in vitro whole cell recording, juxta cellular recording/labelling
• optogenetics
• two-photon microscopy
• calcium imaging
• immunohistochemistry
• proteomics
• western blot
• cell culture and high-performance liquid chromatography

Recent papers

Kheradpezhouh, E., Barritt, G. J., & Rychkov, G. Y. (2016). Curcumin inhibits activation of TRPM2 channels in rat hepatocytes. Redox biology, 7, 1-7. [paper]

Kheradpezhouh, E., Ma, L., Morphett, A., Barritt, G. J., & Rychkov, G. Y. (2014). TRPM2 channels mediate acetaminophen-induced liver damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(8), 3176-3181. [paper]

Kheradpezhouh, E., Panjehshahin, M. R., Miri, R., Javidnia, K., Noorafshan, A., Monabati, A., & Dehpour, A. R. (2010). Curcumin protects rats against acetaminophen-induced hepatorenal damages and shows synergistic activity with N-acetyl cysteine. European journal of pharmacology, 628(1), 274-281. [abstract]

Dr Hamish Meffin

Senior Research Fellow

National Vision Research Institute, The Australian College of Optometry, and

Department of Optometry and Vision Science, The University of Melbourne

Research interests

Hamish researches information processing in the brain, and in neural implant technologies. He is leading the development of a high-acuity retinal prosthesis with Bionic Vision Australia. This multidisciplinary project spans microelectronics, materials, pre-clinical testing, and surgery. Hamish is trained in mathematics, physics and neuroscience, and has worked for more than ten years in theoretical and experimental neuroscience in cross-disciplinary institutions such as the Bionic Ear Institute in Australia, and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Germany.

Technical skills

• computational neuroscience
• in vivo electrophysiology
• electrical stimulation of the nervous system
• neural implant technologies

Recent papers

Maturana, M.I., Apollo, N.V., Hadjinicolaou, A.E., Garrett, D.J., Cloherty, S.L., Kameneva, T.,Grayden D.B., Ibbotson M.R., and Meffin, H. (2016) A simple and accurate model to predict responses to multi-electrode stimulation in the retina. PLoS Comput Biol, 12(4), e1004849 [paper]

Garrett, D.J., Tong, W., Simpson, D.A., and Meffin, H. (2016). Diamond for neural interfacing: A review. Carbon, 102, 437-454 [abstract]

Meffin, H., Hietanen, M.A., Cloherty, S.L., and Ibbotson, M.R. (2015). Spatial phase sensitivity of complex cells in primary visual cortex depends on stimulus contrast. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(6), 3326-3338 [abstract]

Meffin, H., Tahayori, B., Sergeev, E.N., Mareels, I.M., Grayden, D.B., & Burkitt, A.N. (2014) Modelling extracellular electrical stimulation: III. Derivation and interpretation of neural tissue equations. Journal of neural engineering, 11(6), 065004 [abstract]

Tahayori, B., Meffin, H., Sergeev, E.N., Mareels, I.M., Burkitt, A.N., & Grayden, D.B. (2014). Modelling extracellular electrical stimulation: IV. Effect of the cellular composition of neural tissue on its spatio-temporal filtering properties. Journal of neural engineering, 11(6), 065005 [abstract]

Dr Roger Marek

Postdoctoral research fellow

Queensland Brain Institute, Brisbane

Research interests

Roger’s research focuses on the role of prefrontal neural correlates and its connectivity to regulate the extinction of learned fear.

Technical skills

• animal fear behaviour combined with pharmacology and optogenetics
• electrophysiology using single cell patch clamp recordings and LFPs
• immunohistochemistry

Recent publications

Strobel, C., Marek, R., Gooch, H. M., Sullivan, R. K., & Sah, P. (2015). Prefrontal and auditory input to intercalated neurons of the amygdala. Cell reports, 10(9), 1435-1442 [abstract]

Suárez, R., Fenlon, L.R., Marek, R., Avitan, L., Sah, P., Goodhill, G.J., & Richards, L.J. (2014). Balanced interhemispheric cortical activity is required for correct targeting of the corpus callosum. Neuron, 82(6), 1289-1298 [abstract]

Marek, R., Strobel, C., Bredy, T.W., & Sah, P. (2013). The amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex: partners in the fear circuit. The Journal of physiology, 591(10), 2381-2391 [abstract]

Michel, S., Marek, R., vanderLeest, H.T., vanSteensel, M.J., Schwartz, W.J., Colwell, C.S., & Meijer, J.H. (2013). Mechanism of bilateral communication in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. European Journal of Neuroscience, 37(6), 964-971 [abstract]

Wei, W., Coelho, C. M., Li, X., Marek, R., Yan, S., Anderson, S., Meyers, D., Mukherjee, C., Sbardella, G., Castellano, S., Milite, C., Rotili, D., Mai, A., Cole, P.A., Sah, P., Kobor, M.S., and Bredy, T.W. (2012). p300/CBP-associated factor selectively regulates the extinction of conditioned fear. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(35), 11930-11941 [abstract]

Dr Sharna Jamadar

ARC DECRA research fellow

Monash University, Melbourne

Research interests

Sharna’s work focuses on understanding cognitive control processes in the brain, with a particular focus on cognitive compensation: the ability to compensate for disease or age-related changes in the brain. Ultimately her goal is to develop mechanisms that enable humans to age gracefully without suffering dementia or other cognitive decline.

Technical skills

• behavioural analyses
• functional MRI
• structural MRI
• electroencephalography/event-related potentials (EEG/ERPs)
• imaging genetics
• multimodal fusion analyses

Recent papers

Jamadar, S.D., Thienel, R., and Karayanidis, F. (2015). Task switching processes pp. 327–335 in Toga, A. W. Brain mapping: An encyclopedic reference. Academic Press [abstract]

Jamadar, S., Fielding, J., and Egan, G. (2013). Quantitative meta-analysis of fMRI and PET studies reveals consistent activation in fronto-striatal-parietal regions and cerebellum during antisaccades and prosaccades. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 749 [abstract]

Jamadar, S., O’Neil, K.M., Pearlson, G.D., Ansari, M., Gill, A., Jagannathan, K., and Assaf, M. (2013). Impairment in semantic retrieval is associated with symptoms in schizophrenia but not bipolar disorder. Biological psychiatry, 73(6), 555-564 [abstract]

Ruge, H., Jamadar, S., Zimmermann, U., and Karayanidis, F. (2013). The many faces of preparatory control in task switching: reviewing a decade of fMRI research. Human brain mapping, 34(1), 12-35 [abstract]

Jamadar, S., Assaf, M., Jagannathan, K., Anderson, K., and Pearlson, G.D. (2013) Figural memory performance and fMRI activity across the adult lifespan. Neurobiology of Aging 34:110–127 [abstract]

Dr Sammy Lee

Postdoctoral research fellow

Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney

Research interests

Sammy’s research focuses on neuroanatomy, retinal anatomy and development of neuronal connections and projections.

Technical skills

• immunohistochemistry
• human and non-human primate models, mouse models
• single cell injections with dyes
• gene gun labelling
• tissue sectioning
• wide-field microscopy, confocal multi-photon & 2-photon microscopy

Recent papers

Lee, S., Meyer, A., Schubert, T., Hüser, L., Dedek, K., and Haverkamp, S. (2015). Morphology and connectivity of the small bistratified A8 amacrine cell in the mouse retina. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 523(10), 1529-1547 [abstract]

Chen, S.K., Chew, K.S., McNeill, D.S., Keeley, P.W., Ecker, J.L., Mao, B.Q., Pahlberg, J., Kim, B., Lee, S., Fox, M.A., Guido, W., Wong, K.Y., Sampath, A.P., Reese, B.E., Kuruvilla, R., and Hattar, S. (2013). Apoptosis regulates ipRGC spacing necessary for rods and cones to drive circadian photoentrainment. Neuron, 77(3), 503-515 [abstract]

Keeley, P.W., Sliff, B.J., Lee, S., Fuerst, P.G., Burgess, R.W., Eglen, S.J., & Reese, B.E. (2012). Neuronal clustering and fasciculation phenotype in Dscam‐and Bax‐deficient mouse retinas. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 520(7), 1349-1364 [abstract]

Reese, B.E., Keeley, P.W., Lee, S., & Whitney, I.E. (2011). Developmental plasticity of dendritic morphology and the establishment of coverage and connectivity in the outer retina. Developmental neurobiology, 71(12), 1273-1285 [abstract]

Lee, S.C., Cowgill, E.J., Al-Nabulsi, A., Quinn, E.J., Evans, S.M., and Reese, B.E. (2011). Homotypic regulation of neuronal morphology and connectivity in the mouse retina. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(40), 14126-14133 [abstract]

Jessica McFadyen

PhD scholar

Queensland Brain Institute & Centre for Advanced Imaging, Brisbane

Research interests

The current focus of Jessica’s research is how the amygdala and its connections are involved in face perception. She is interested in expanding this to the neurological mechanisms of prediction and decision-making, and how this interacts with consciousness.

Technical skills

• proficient in running and analysing EEG.
• in the process of becoming proficient in fMRI, MEG, and DCM.

Recent papers

Cao, Y., Contreras-Huerta, L.S., McFadyen, J., & Cunnington, R. (2015). Racial bias in neural response to others’ pain is reduced with other-race contact. Cortex, 70, 68-78. [abstract]

Poonian, S.K., McFadyen, J., Ogden, J., & Cunnington, R. (2015). Implicit agency in observed actions: evidence for N1 suppression of tones caused by self-made and observed actions. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 27(4), 752-764 [abstract]

Dr Babak Nasr

Postdoctoral research fellow

The University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Research interests

Babak’s research focuses on nanofabrication, material characterization, nanoelectronics, bioelectronics and biosensors.

Technical skills

• e-beam lithography
• photo lithography
• reactive ion etching
• chemical vapor deposition
• critical point drying
• XRD, GIXRD, XRR, SEM, EDX, FIB-SEM
• sol-gel
• co-precipitation process
• e-beam and thermal evaporation
• ALD and sputtering deposition
• FTIR and UV-VIS spectroscopy
• cell culture

Recent papers

Nasr, B., Chana, G., Lee, T.T., Nguyen, T., Abeyrathne, C., D’Abaco, G. M., Dottori, M., and Skafidas, E. (2015). Vertical Nanowire Electrode Arrays as Novel Electrochemical Label‐Free Immunosensors. Small, 11(24), 2862-2868 [abstract]

Nasr, B., Zhao-Karger, Z., Wang, D., Kruk, R., Hahn, H., and Dasgupta, S. (2013). Temperature tolerance study of high performance electrochemically gated SnO 2 nanowire field-effect transistors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1(14), 2534-2539 [abstract]

Nasr, B., Wang, D., Kruk, R., Rösner, H., Hahn, H., and Dasgupta, S. (2013). High‐Speed, Low‐Voltage, and Environmentally Stable Operation of Electrochemically Gated Zinc Oxide Nanowire Field‐Effect Transistors. Advanced Functional Materials, 23(14), 1750-1758 [abstract]

Momcilo Prodanovic

PhD scholar

Monash University, Melbourne

Research interests

Momcilo’s research interests are multiscale computational modeling of tissues. Currently, his work focuses on computational modeling of multilayered human visual system with applications in computer vision. His previous work includes computational modeling of X-ray diffraction patterns of muscle fibers in living cells.

Technical skills

• MATLAB, C++, Fortran (along with Monte Carlo simulation of elementary particles transport)
• certified LabVIEW associate developer
• comsol multiphysics modeling software
• molecular dynamics simulations of muscle proteins using CHARMM
• experience of operating laboratory equipment in conjunction with a data acquisition card and MATLAB or NI LabVIEW

Recent papers

Prodanovic, M., Nedic, D., Irving, T.C., and Mijailovich, S.M. (2015). Estimation of Local Forces in Myofilaments using X-Ray Diffraction Patterns and Muscle Mechanics Data. Biophysical Journal, 108(2), 422a-423a [abstract]

Prodanovic, M., Irving, T., Stojanovic, B., & Mijailovich, S.M. (2014, April). Multiscale model predictions of X-ray diffraction patterns from nonuniformly stretched actin filaments. In 2014 40th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) (pp. 1-2). IEEE [abstract]

Prodanovic, M., Irving, T.C., McOwen, R., and Mijailovich, S.M. (2014). X-Ray Diffraction Pattern of Non-Uniformly Stretched Actin Filament. Biophysical Journal, 106(2), 768a [abstract]

Prodanović, M., Malešević, J., Filipović, M., Jevtić, T., Bijelić, G., and Malešević, N. (2013). Numerical simulation of the energy distribution in biological tissues during electrical stimulation. Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, 10(1), 165-173 [paper]

Dr Matthew Tang

Postdoctoral research fellow

Queensland Brain Institute, Brisbane

Research interests

Matthew’s research focuses on the neural mechanisms that underlie attention and perceptual capacity in humans. He is currently examining how cognitive control influences early processing of visual information.

Technical skills

• psychophysics
• non-invasive brain stimulation
• EEG
• computational modeling

Recent papers

Tang, M.F., Hammond, G.R., & Badcock, D.R. (2016). Are Participants Aware of the Type and Intensity of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation? PloS one, 11(2), e0148825 [paper]

Tang, M.F., Dickinson, J.E., Visser, T.A., Edwards, M., & Badcock, D.R. (2015). Role of form information in motion pooling and segmentation. Journal of vision, 15(15), 19 [paper]

Tang, M.F., Dickinson, J.E., Visser, T.A., & Badcock, D.R. (2015). The broad orientation dependence of the motion streak aftereffect reveals interactions between form and motion neurons. Journal of vision, 15(13), 4-4 [paper]

Tang, M.F., Badcock, D.R., & Visser, T.A. (2014). Training and the attentional blink: Limits overcome or expectations raised? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(2), 406-411 [abstract]

Tang, M.F., & Hammond, G.R. (2013). Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over auditory cortex degrades frequency discrimination by affecting temporal, but not place, coding. European Journal of Neuroscience, 38(5), 2802-2811 [abstract]

Dr Guilherme Testa-Silva

Postdoctoral research fellow

Australian National University, Canberra

Research interests

Guilherme’s research focuses on perceptual decision-making, synaptic integration and dendrites.

Technical skills

• in vitro (multi-patch, paired and dendritic recordings)
• in vivo (single unit, whole-cell)
• experience with rodents, non-human primates and human slices
• imaging

Recent papers

Testa-Silva, G., Verhoog, M.B., Linaro, D., De Kock, C.P., Baayen, J.C., Meredith, R.M., De Zeeuw, C.I., Giugliano, M., and Mansvelder, H.D. (2014). High bandwidth synaptic communication and frequency tracking in human neocortex. PLoS Biol, 12(11), e1002007 [abstract]

Testa-Silva, G., Loebel, A., Giugliano, M., de Kock, C.P., Mansvelder, H.D., & Meredith, R.M. (2012). Hyperconnectivity and slow synapses during early development of medial prefrontal cortex in a mouse model for mental retardation and autism. Cerebral cortex, 22(6), 1333-1342 [abstract]

Testa-Silva, G., Verhoog, M.B., Goriounova, N.A., Loebel, A., Hjorth, J., Baayen, J.C., de Kock, C.P., Mansvelder, H.D. (2010). Human synapses show a wide temporal window for spike-timing-dependent plasticity, Frontiers Synaptic Neuroscience: 2 (12) eCollection 2010. [abstract]

Silva, G.T., Le Bé, J.V., Riachi, I., Rinaldi, T., Markram, K., and Markram, H. (2009). Enhanced long term microcircuit plasticity in the valproic acid animal model of autism. Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience, 1, 1 [abstract]

Dr Dongping Yang

Postdoctoral research associate

University of Sydney, Sydney

Research interests

Dong-Ping’s research focus is the spatiotemporal properties of critical dynamics of cortical activities, employing computational modelling and theoretical analysis to provide new insights into various cortical states (e.g. wake-sleep transition, onset of spindle instability in sleep, propagation of sleep, and the onset and propagation of seizures). Previously, his research focused on evolutionary dynamics on complex networks, biological modelling of calcium dynamics in the cell, and multi-scale cortical activities.

Technical skills

• computational modelling
• theoretical analysis,
• nonlinear analysis
• numerical programming in C++, Matlab, Python

Recent papers

Sun, L., & Yang, D.P. (2014). Adoption of different strategies in diversity-optimized populations promotes cooperation. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 394, 158-165. [abstract]

Yang, D.P., Lin, H., & Shuai, J.W. (2011). Coevolution of cooperation and network structure under natural selection. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 93(4), 48001 [abstract]

Wei, F., Yang, D., Straube, R., & Shuai, J. (2011). Brownian diffusion of ion channels in different membrane patch geometries. Physical Review E, 83(2), 021919 [abstract]

Lin, H., Yang, D.P., & Shuai, J.W. (2011). Cooperation among mobile individuals with payoff expectations in the spatial prisoner’s dilemma game. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 44(1), 153-159 [abstract]

Yang, D.P., Lin, H., Wu, C.X., & Shuai, J.W. (2009). Effect of mortality selection on the emergence of cooperation with network dynamics. New Journal of Physics, 11(7), 073048 [abstract]

Yang, D.P., Shuai, J.W., Lin, H., & Wu, C.X. (2009). Individual’s strategy characterized by local topology conditions in prisoner’s dilemma on scale-free networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 388(13), 2750-2756 [abstract]

Dong-Ping, Y., Hai, L., Chen-Xu, W., & Jian-Wei, S. (2009). Modelling moran process with network dynamics for the evolution of cooperation. Chinese Physics Letters, 26(6), 068902. [abstract]

Shuyu (Iris) Zhu

PhD scholar

Monash University, Melbourne

Research interests

Iris’s research is focused on investigating pitch perception in the auditory cortex and whether pitch can affect the perception of other auditory related information such as sound localisation.

Technical skills

• electrophysiology
• immunohistology
• histology
• MATLAB programming