People

Members of our group are based at three centres: 
  • Newcastle University Medical School
  • Wellcome Centre for Human NeuroImaging at University College London
  • Human Brain Research Laboratory at the University of Iowa
Members (in alphabetical order)
​​ESTER BENZAQUÉN
​​Ester is a PhD student working on emotion neuroscience at Newcastle University.  
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​JOEL BERGER
Joel is a postdoctoral fellow based at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa. He works on auditory working memory and examines human cortical recordings in response to maintenance of tonal sounds.
[PubMed]
​ALEX BILLIG
Alex is a postdoctoral associate at the UCL Ear Institute. His research includes how attention and experience influence interpretation of ambiguous auditory scenes, and the role of the hippocampus in supporting auditory cognition 
​[PubMed]
​PRADEEP DHEERENDRA​
Pradeep is a postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University. He works on understanding auditory scene analysis using EEG and analysis of auditory objects using MEG. He obtained his PhD on understanding auditory scene analysis using fMRI from Newcastle University. 
[PubMed]
​PHILLIP GANDER
Phil is a research scientist at the University of Iowa where he works in the Department of Neurosurgery to examine human cortical recordings in response to complex sounds, and in the Department of Otolaryngology to examine mechanisms of speech-in-noise processing in cochlear implantees. 
[PubMed]
​TIM GRIFFITHS
Tim is a Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow, Professor of Cognitive Neurology at Newcastle University, Honorary Principal at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL (WCHN) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. He is a neurologist who studies normal and abnormal auditory cognition. He runs the Newcastle Cognitive Neurology Clinic.
​[PubMed]
​EMMA HOLMES
Emma is a postdoctoral fellow at UCL. She investigates how cognition influences speech intelligibility in people with normal and impaired hearing 
[PubMed]
​SUKHBINDER KUMAR
Sukhbinder is a Research Fellow at Newcastle University. He works on auditory working memory, interoception and emotional neuroscience. He is also involved in stimulus design, functional imaging, depth electrode studies and modelling work.
[PubMed]
​MEHER LAD
Meher is a clinical researcher working on understanding the role of hippocampus in auditory working memory.
[PubMed]
FELIX SCHNEIDER
​Felix is a PhD student working on understanding neuronal basis of auditory figure ground segregation at Newcastle University. 
[PubMed]
​WILLIAM SEDLEY
Will is a neurologist currently an Clinical Research Fellow. He studies mechanisms of tinnitus using EEG at Newcastle. He did his PhD on tinnitus at Newcastle University. 
[PubMed]
EKATERINA YUKHNOVICH
Kate is a PhD student working on tinnitus at Newcastle University.
[PubMed]

Alumni

​​HEATHER SLATER
Heather worked with us after her PhD in Petkov lab on brain imaging of children as part of the childhood language project. [PubMed]
MANON GRUBE
Manon was a postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University and co-PI on an MRC-funded project to assess auditory cognition in children that determines language, as well as work on neurology patients. She then moved to Aarhus University. [PubMed]
FAYE SMITH
Faye was a postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University who worked on an MRC-funded project to assess auditory cognition in children. She then became Lecturer in Speech and Language Sciences at Newcastle University. [PubMed]
SIMON BAUMANN 
Simon was a postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University and carried out functional imaging work on pitch and tonotopy. He then moved to Oxford University. [PubMed] 
SUNDEEP TEKI
Sundeep did his PhD on auditory scene analysis at UCL before postdoctoral work there. He worked on behavioural and functional imaging work on the analysis of auditory patterns and time perception. He then did a Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship in Oxford before moving to Amazon Research. [PubMed] 
COLLINE POIRIER
Colline was a postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University and studied sound movement and spatial analysis. She then moved to carry out an animal welfare project at Newcastle Unviersity. [PubMed]​
​OLIVIER JOLY
Olivier was a postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University and did behavioral and functional imaging work on pitch and complex sound perception. He moved to Oxford University and then a clinical imaging start up. [PubMed]​
TOBIAS OVERATH
Tobias did his PhD in Neuroscience at UCL before postdoctoral work there to examine pitch and object analysis. He is now Faculty at Duke University. [PubMed]
THOMAS COPE
Thomas is a neurologist who worked on auditory perception in patients with brain disease at Newcastle. He then moved to become an Academic Clinical Fellow at Cambridge University. [PubMed]
FREYA COOPER
Freya obtained her PhD on neuropsychological and rhythm disorders due to cerebellar damage. She then moved into clinical psychology. [PubMed]
MARIA CHAIT 
Maria was a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at UCL. She is now Faculty at UCL. [PubMed]
KATHARINA von KRIEGSTEIN 
Katharina was a postdoctoral fellow and worked on acoustic scene analysis. She is now Faculty at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig. [PubMed]
LAUREN STEWART
Lauren was a postdoctoral fellow and worked on pitch sequence analysis and music perception. She is now Faculty at Goldsmith's College, London. [PubMed]
AMANDA JENNINGS
Amanda did her PhD at Newcastle on auditory object analysis. She then moved to the pharmaceutical industry. [PubMed]
JASON WARREN
Jason did his PhD at Newcastle on functional imaging studies to define normal complex-sound processing mechanisms. He then worked on neurological studies of complex sound processing in brain disorder. He is now UCL Faculty at the Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, UCL. [PubMed]
JESSICA FOXTON 
Jessica did her PhD at Newcastle on normal and abnormal sound-sequence processing, links between complex-sound and language analysis and auditory learning. [PubMed]
JENNY DEAN 
Jenny worked on normal and abnormal psychophysics including work on congenital auditory agnosia. [PubMed]
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