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

TIM GRIFFITHS

​​ESTER BENZAQUÉN

  • Postdoctoral associate
  • Biosciences Institute
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  • Research interests: predictors of speech-in-noise perception, affective neuroscience.

​JOEL BERGER

  • Assistant professor
  • Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa
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  • Research interests: human cortical recordings in response to maintenance of tonal sounds.

ALEX BILLIG

  • Postdoctoral fellow
  • UCL Ear Institute
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  • Research interests: role of the hippocampus in supporting auditory cognition

Meher Lad

  • Lecturer at Newcastle University

Hasan Çolak

  • PhD student
  • Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University
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  • Research interests: audiology, exploring the auditory cognitive mechanisms of speech-in-noise processing.

​XIAOXUAN GUO

Sukhbinder Kumar

  • Alumni
  • Research Assistant Professor University of Iowa

William Sedley

  • Alumni
  • Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellow

Ekaterina Yukhnovich

  • Alumni
  • Research associate, Newcastle University

Emma Holmes

  • Alumni
  • Lecturer in Speech and Hearing Science at UCL

Pradeep Dheerendra

  • Alumni
  • Affiliate Researcher of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Glasgow

Manon Grube

  • Alumni
  • Associate Professor of Psychology, Ashoka University

Faye Smith

  • Alumni
  • Lecturer in Speech and Language Sciences

Colline Poirier

  • Alumni
  • Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University

​Oliver Joly

  • Alumni
  • Head of Department at Brainomix Ltd.

Tobias Overath

  • Alumni
  • Assistant Professor, Duke University

Thomas Cope

  • Alumni
  • Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, Cambridge University

Maria Chait

  • Alumni
  • Professor of Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, The Ear Institute

Katharina von Kriegstein

  • Alumni
  • Professor of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

Lauren Stewart

  • Alumni
  • Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths College

Jason Warren

  • Alumni
  • Professor of Neurology at UCL