PhD Students
Adaobi Osuji
Expertise: I am interested in interaction of Hearing loss, Auditory processing and Cognition in Patients with Hearing loss and/or Mild Cognitive Impairment (Early Alzheimer's disease).
Supervisor: Prof Doris Eva- Bamiou
Alfonso Luca Pendolino
Expertise: ENT specialist with a particular interest in Rhinology. Evaluation of treatment modalities for nasal and olfactory dysfunction in patients with NSAID-exacerbated respiratory disease (N-ERD) and without N-ERD.
Supervisors: Prof Peter Andrews, Dr Glenis Scadding, Dr Dan Jagger, Prof Anne Schilder, Prof Carl May, Prof Maroeska Rovers, Prof Doris Bamiou
Amit Khandhadia
Benjamin Silver
Brian Lam
Expertise: Understanding changes in neural coding of the auditory nerve caused by degradation in peripheral hearing components.
Supervisor: Prof Nick Lesica
Buse Adam
Expertise: Interest in investigating how the brain processes and tracks rapidly changing sound sequences and gaining an understanding of the underlying neurological mechanisms.
Supervisor: Prof Maria Chait
Funded by: the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of National Education
Carla Griffiths
Expertise: Implementing unbiased signal processing to uncover correlations of feature to object-based neural representations to Auditory Cortex layers.
Supervisor: Prof Jennifer Bizley
Funded by: European Research Council
Chen Lu
Expertise: Auditory cortex abnormalities in the Df1/+ mouse model with genetic risk for schizophrenia and hearing impairment.
Supervisor: Prof Jennifer Linden
Claudia Contadini-Wright
Expertise: My research centers around understanding how the brain is able to direct and sustain attention under distracting auditory conditions, and why some people find this process easier than others. Using a combination of behavioural measures and EEG, I am hoping to use this to shed light on why some people find it harder to adapt to hearing aids in the presence of background noise than others.
Supervisor: Prof Maria Chait
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
Diya Vaid
Expertise: Neurosciences and qualitative research methods.
Supervisors: Prof Anne Schilder (UCL Ear Institute), Prof Fiona Stevenson (UCL Department of Primary Care and Population Health)
Funded by: NIHR UCLH BRC
Eleanor Brown
Expertise: Hearing loss in NF2.
Supervisor: Prof Dan Jagger
Funded by: Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), Anatomical Society (AS)
Elizabeth Freeman
Expertise: Exploring the molecular basis of swarming behaviour in the African malaria mosquito, including the auditory behaviour of locating mates.
Supervisor: Dr Marta Andres
Funded by: London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme (BBSRC)
Hope Oloye
Jack Martin
Expertise: The role of stress granules in hearing loss.
Supervisors: Dr Sally Dawson, Prof Jonathan Gale
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
Jasmin Ho
Jules Lebert
Expertise: Understanding how auditory perception is maintained in the presence of background noise and how auditory-prefrontal interactions support selective listening.
Supervisor: Prof Jenny Bizley
Funded by: European Research Council
Katherine Whitcroft
Expertise: Assessment of clinical olfaction using psychophysics, structural and functional neuroimaging.
Lida Alampounti
Expertise: Assessing and optimising audiovisual integration for listening in a mixture of competing sounds.
Supervisors: Prof Jennifer Bizley, Dr Hannah Cooper
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), University College London Hospitals (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Hearing Theme, the UCL Ear Institute
Louay Madanat
Expertise: Investigating the causal role of the auditory cortex in auditory processing and adaptation to noise.
Supervisor: Prof Jennifer Bizley
Marsha Jenkins
Expertise: Investigating the development of an evidence-based hearing aid fitting, validation and evaluation protocol for children with Unilateral Hearing Loss (UHL).
Supervisors: Dr Hannah Cooper, Dr Amanda Hall
Funded by: UCL
Mert Huviyetli
Expertise: My research centres around understanding how the brain mechanisms involved in auditory scene analysis, specifically the detection of abrupt changes in complex acoustic environments, are influenced by healthy aging.
Supervisor: Prof Maria Chait
Funded by: the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of National Education
Nazrin Ali
Terry Nunn
Expertise: Exploring Parameter Variation in Cochlear Implant Fitting to Improve Speech Perception in Difficult Listening Conditions.
Supervisors: Dr Debi Vickers, Dr Tim Green, Prof Dan Jiang
Xena Liu
Expertise: Investigating the clinical usability of Microsaccades (MS) alongside pupillometry and EEG to measure listening effort and attentional/memory load.
Supervisors: Prof Maria Chait, Prof Doris-Eva Bamiou
Funded by: Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)
Xinyu Zhou
Expertise: Homogenous distribution of therapeutic agents along the cochlear by acoustic stimulation.
Supervisor: Mr Torsten Marquardt
Funded by: Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)