Staff in the School of Psychological Sciences
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Head of School
Academic Staff
- Professor Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Professor of Forensic Psychology and Public Policy
- Professor Rick Cooper, Professor of Cognitive Science
- Professor Eddy J Davelaar, Professor of Psychology and Applied Neuroscience
- Dr Rashpal Dhensa-Kahlon, Lecturer
- Professor Martin Eimer, Professor of Psychology
- Dr Joanna Farr, Lecturer
- Professor Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Head of School
- Dr Gianluca Finotti, Lecturer
- Professor Beth Grunfeld, Professor of Health Psychology
- Professor Ulrike Hahn, Professor of Psychology
- Professor Mark Johnson, Professor of Psychology
- Professor Emily Jones, Professor of Translational Neurodevelopment
- Professor Natasha Kirkham, Professor of Developmental Psychology
- Ana da Cunha Lewin, Senior Lecturer
- Professor Matthew Longo, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Dr Michael Mallaghan, Senior Associate Lecturer
- Professor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology
- Professor Almuth McDowall, Professor of Organizational Psychology
- Dr Emma Meaburn, Reader in Human Genetics
- Professor Anne Miles, Professor of Health Psychology
- Dr Ori Ossmy, Reader in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
- Dr Giusi Pollicina, Lecturer
- Dr Halley Pontes, Lecturer
- Dr Silvia Seghezzi, Lecturer
- Professor Jonathan A Smith, Professor of Psychology
- Professor Marie L Smith, Professor of Cognitive Psychology
- Professor Fiona Tasker, Professor of Psychology
- Professor Michael Thomas, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Professor Adam Tierney, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Dr Raffaele Tucciarelli, Lecturer
- Dr Matilde Vaghi, Lecturer
- Dr Daniel Yon, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience
Administrative Staff
- Sarela Castro Muniz, CBCD Administrator
- Lizette Dodds, Research Centre Coordinator (Centre for Neurodiversity at Work)
- Berta Hortigüela-Fernández, CBCD Finance and Research Manager
- Winnie Yeh, BUCNI Administrator
IT Support StafF
- Avi Reisman, Research and Teaching IT Manager
- Ruben Zamora, Research and Teaching Software and Web Developer
Laboratory Staff
- Sunny Kumar, Lab Technician (CAVE)
- Dr Rebecca Nako, Laboratory Manager
- Dr Paola Pinti, Senior Research Laboratory Developer (CAVE)
Research Staff
- Dr Maria Aguilo Mayans, Research Assistant
- Dr Tessel Bazelmans, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Jannath Begum-Ali, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Nazm Berry, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Chiara Bulgarelli, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Beverley Burke, Daphne Jackson Fellow
- Dr Virginia Carter Leno, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Rosie Dalton, Research Assistant
- Dr Gordon Dodwell, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Georgina Donati, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Georgie Edwards-Lowe, Research Assistant
- Dr Julia Gawronska, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Tommaso Ghilardi, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Louisa Gossé, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Rianne Haartsen, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Rebecca Holman, Research Assistant
- Dr Zlatomira Ilchovska, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr James Ives, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Magdalena Kachlicka, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Julia Landstedt, Research Assistant
- Vanessa Madeira, Research Assistant
- Tamsin Osborne, Research Assistant
- Lucy Palmer, Research Assistant
- Francesca Penza, Research Assistant
- Dr Emily Phillips, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Laura Phillips-Farmer, Research Assistant
- Maria Cristina Pitteri, Research Assistant
- Dr Hannah Rowan, Research Assistant
- Giulia Serino, Research Assistant
- Maheen Siddiqui, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Victoria St Clair, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Dr Rachel Starr, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Chloe Taylor, Research Assistant
- Leslie Tucker, Senior Researcher
- Dr Cigdem Gelegen Van Eijl, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Daniel Wechsler, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Ruihan Wu, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Farah Ghosn Yassine, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Hodo Yusuf, Research Assistant
- Kitty Wells, Research Assistant
Teaching Staff
- Alex Avadanei, Associate Lecturer
- Dr Federica Biotti, Associate Lecturer
- Astrid Bowen, Associate Lecturer
- Dr Jennie Brown, Associate Lecturer
- Denise Cadete, Associate Lecturer
- Dr Vanna Cotzia, Associate Lecturer
- Dr Nancy Doyle, Associate Lecturer
- Hélène Grandchamp Des Raux, Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Imogen Green, Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Helen Grimshaw, Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Maryam Haq, Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Andy Kirby, Associate Lecturer
- Dr Elizabeth Li, Associate Lecturer
- Dr Ute Liersch, Associate Lecturer
- Dr Alex Lloyd, Associate Lecturer
- Dr Susan Marchant-Haycox, Associate Lecturer
- Dr Andrew Moore, Associate Lecturer
- Lucy Palmer, Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Hattie Ruffer, Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Kirsten Rittershofer, Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Dr Saskia Sabelus, Associate Lecturer
- Maria Tosto, Associate Lecturer
Visiting Staff
- Professor Naz Derakhshan, Honorary Research Fellow
- Professor Fred Dick, Visiting Professor
- Professor Iroise Dumontheil, Honorary Research Fellow
- Professor Gillian Forrester, Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Abdulhamit Kurupinar, Honorary Research Fellow
- Professor Robert Leech, Visiting Professor
- Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Bosiljka Milosavljevic, Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Isabella Nizza, Honorary Research Fellow
- Roisin Perry, Associate Research Fellow
- Maria Pitharouli, Associate Research Fellow
- Professor Clare Press, Honorary Research Fellow
- Professor Angelica Ronald, Visiting Professor
- Professor Tim Smith, Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Ilias Tachtsidis, Honorary Research Fellow
Emeritus Staff
- Dr Paul Barber, Emeritus Reader in Psychology
- Professor Jacqueline Barnes: Emerita Professor of Psychology. Professor Barnes has devoted her life to improving developmental outcomes for children from deprived or challenging backgrounds. Her research has focused on environmental and community influences on parenting and child development, which has been immensely influential in forming policy in the UK and beyond. Her research has also focussed on how various social, physical and psychological problems affect parenting such as homelessness, breast cancer, artificial insemination and eating disorders. View Professor Jacqueline Barnes’ publications on BiRon.
- Professor Gergely Csibra, Emeritus Professor of Psychology. View Professor Csibra's profile on the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development.
- Dr Virginia Eatough, Emerita Reader in Psychology
- Professor Edward (Ted) Melhuish: Emeritus Professor of Human Development. Professor Melhuish studies social and communicative development from birth to adulthood, including the effect of environmental factors. He is interested in early education and care, parenting, child poverty and disadvantage, and child development and social policy. He has devoted much of his life to theoretically driven research to produce improvements in development and well-being in areas such as the development of pre-term babies, children of psychiatrically disturbed parents, social, linguistic and cognitive development, emergent literacy, and early childhood education and care and the evaluation of policy initiatives. View Professor Edward Melhuish's publications on BiRon.
- Professor Mike Oaksford: Emeritus Professor of Psychology. In 2005, Professor Oaksford moved to Birkbeck as Professor of Psychology and Head of Department. He stepped down as Head of Department in 2021. His research concerns how people reason and construct arguments in discourse. This research involves experimental work and modelling the resulting inferential behaviour.
- Professor Anne Richards, Emerita Professor of Psychology