People
Lab PI
- Chris Summerfield
Chris is the lab PI. He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, and a Research Director at UK AI Safety Institute.
Postdocs and Fellows
- Jacques Pesnot-Lerousseau
Jacques completed his PhD with Benjamin Morillon and joins us on a fellowship from Fondation pour l’audition.
- Mira Dumbalska
Mira completed her PhD in Oxford and is now a postdoc funded by Schmidt Futures.
PhD Students and Research Assistants
- Lukas Braun
Lukas is a PhD student co-supervised by Andrew Saxe.
- Leonie Glitz
Leonie is supported by the Clarendon Fund. She is co-supervised by Helen Barron.
- Carla Zoe Cremer
Zoe is funded by the FHI.
- Ellie Holton
Ellie is a 3rd year PhD student co-supervised by Jill O’Reilly.
- Jirko Rubruck
Jirko is funded by the ESRC and co-supervised by Andrew Saxe.
- Zilu Liang
Zilu is co-supervised by Miriam Klein-Flugge.
- Denis Lan
Denis is a 3rd year PhD student co-supervised by Laurence Hunt.
- Kai Sandrbink
Kai is a 2nd year PhD student co-supervised by Simon Stringer.
- Aeron Laffere
Aeron is a 3rd year PhD student primarily supervised by Armin Lak.
- Mia Whitefield
Mia is on the 4-year Biosciences DTP and is co-supervised by Helen Barron.
- Brian Christian
Brian is a well known non-fiction writer who has joined us for a PhD.
- Alex Grogan
Alex is a researcher and software engineer, as well as an MSc student at UCL.
Alumni (PhD Students / RAs)
- Elizabeth Michael
Lizzie defended her PhD in 2015. She is now a Henry Wellcome fellow in Cambridge at Henry Wellcome.
- Dan Bang
Dan defended his PhD in 2015. He is now a Lundbeck Foundation Fellow at Aarhus University.
- Jan Balaguer
Jan defended his PhD in 2018. He is now a research engineer with DeepMind.
- Hannah Tickle
Hannah defended her PhD in 2018. She is now a data scientist at Trainline London.
- Santiago Herce-Castanon
Santiago defended his PhD in 2018. He is now a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
- Hildward Vandormael
Hil defended his PhD in 2017. He is now working as a data scientist for the University of Oxford.
- Vickie Li
Vickie defended her PhD in 2019. She is now working as a data scientist for Faculty AI.
- Fabrice Luyckx
Fabrice is now working as a data scientist for Massive Media in Ghent.
- Fabian Otto
Fabian was an RA in the lab in 2019-20 after graduating from Oxford. He is now a graduate student at ETH Zurich.
- Ron Dekker
Ron defended in 2021. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Mingbo Cai in Tokyo.
- Timo Flesch
Timo was in the lab for 8 years! He now works for Phytoform Labs UK.
Alumni (Postdocs)
- Vincent de Gardelle
Vincent is now a tenured CNRS researcher at the Sorbonne, Paris.
- Valentin Wyart
Valentin is now a tenured INSERM researcher at the ENS, Paris.
- Alejo Nevado-Holgado
Alejo is now a PI in the psychiatry department in Oxford.
- Annabelle Blangero
Annabelle is now a data scientist for OCTO technology (Paris).
- Konstantinos Tsetsos
Kos is now a PI at the University of Bristol.
- Bernhard Spitzer
Bernie is now a PI at the Centre for Adaptive Rationality (Berlin).
- Andreas Jarvstad
Andreas is now a faculty member in the department of psychology at City University.
- Hamed Nili
Hamed is now a postdoctoral researcher at UKE Hamburg.
- Andrew Saxe
Andrew is now a PI at UCL’s Gatsby Unit on a Henry Dale Fellowship.
- Yinan Cao
Yinan is now a postdoc with Konstantinos Tsetsos in Hamburg.
- Hannah Sheahan
Hannah is now a research engineer at DeepMind.
- Neil Garrett
Neil is now an associate professor at UEA.
- Stephanie Nelli
Steph is now a tenure-track professor in Cognitive Science at Occidental College in LA.
- Paula Parpart
Paula is now teaching methods in data science.
- Keno Juechems
Keno is now a research scientist at Limbic AI.
- Paul Muhle-Karbe
Paul is now an associate professor at Birmingham University.
- Aniruddh Galgali
Aniruddh is now a postdoc with Maneesh Sahani at UCL’s Gatsby Unit.
- Sophie Arana
Sophie is now a Research Manager at the Alan Turing Institute.