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About Us
We’re one of Newcastle University’s Centres of Research Excellence (NUCoREs).
Neuroscience is an inherently interdisciplinary field that depends on the expertise of scientists in multiple specialities.
The Centre for Transformative Neuroscience is a university-wide entity that brings together:
- neuroscientists
- clinicians
- computational scientists
- engineers
- chemists
- speech and language therapists
- and other specialists
The lead faculty for the centre is the Faculty of Medical Sciences.
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The Centre:
- is open to all colleagues engaged in neuroscience and related research
- encourages the formation of new teams to develop interdisciplinary research or teaching initiatives
- builds on existing and emerging links with external partners
- embraces an ethos of multidisciplinarity and inclusivity, and engages all career stages
- provides a forum for interaction via incubator events and workshops
Centre Directory
FMS
- Dr Mouhamed Alsaqati | Lecturer in Neuropharmacology
- Professor Mark Baker | Honorary Professor of Experimental Neurology
- Professor Stuart Baker | Professor of Movement Neuroscience
- Dr Fabien Balezeau | Senior Reseach Associate
- Dr Luke Bashford | NUAcT Fellow
- Dr Anna Basu | Clinical Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant
- Professor David Brooks | Professor of Clinical PET Research
- Dr Gavin Clowry | Reader in Neuroanatomy
- Dr David Cousins | Director, Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre; Clinical Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant
- Dr Silvia Del Din | Reader in Digital Healthcare for translational applications
- Dr Helen Devine | NUAcT Clinical Research Fellow
- Dr Christina Elliott | Lecturer in Biochemistry
- Dr Lindsey Ferrie | Reader in Pharmacology Education
- Dr Sasha Gartside | Senior Lecturer
- Dr Alwin Gieselmann | Research Associate
- Professor Matthew Gorton | Professor of Marketing
- Dr Franziska Hartung | Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology
- Dr Jiabao He | Senior Lecturer in Medical Imaging
- Dr Lee Higham | Senior Lecturer
- Dr Jeffry Hogg | Clinical Research Associate
- Dr Paul Hubbard | Deputy Dean of Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences
- Professor David Hunter | Emeritus Professor
- Dr Adrian Lloyd | Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Dr Gabriele Jordan | Head of School of Psychology
- Dr Sarah Judge | Lecturer in Pharmacology
- Dr Micheal Keogh | Senior Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurologist
- Dr Yukiko Kikuchi | Lecturer in Sensory, Perceptual and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Dr Sasha Kraskov | Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Meher Lad | MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow
- Professor Majlinda Lako | Professor of Stem Cell Science
- Dr Rachael Lawson | Janet Owens Parkinson's UK Senior Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer
- Dr Fiona LeBeau | Reader in Neural Networks
- Dr David Lewis-Smith | Associate Clinical Lecturer
- Dr Carmen Martin-Ruiz | Senior Research Associate
- Professor Hamish McAllister-Williams | Strategic Research Adviser
- Dr Faye McLeod | Epilepsy Research UK Fellow
- Dr Chris Morris | Senior Lecturer
- Professor Julie Morris | Professor of Speech and Language Science
- Dr Sinead Mullally | Lecturer in Neuropsychology
- Dr Rajesh Nair | Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Dr Vivek Nityananda | David Phillips Research Fellow
- Professor Fiona Oakley | Professor of Fibrosis Biology
- Dr Ilona Obara | Reader in Pain Pharmacology and Neuroscience
- Dr Bas Olthof | Lecturer in Neurobiology
- Dr Annette Pantall | Lecturer
- Dr Sarah Pickett | Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellow
- Dr Colline Poirier | Senior Lecturer
- Professor Chris Price | Professor of Stroke and Applied Health Research
- Dr Claudia Racca | Senior Lecturer
- Dr Srikanth Ramaswamy | NUAcT Fellow
- Dr Claire Rind | Reader in Invertebrate Neurobiology
- Dr Barbara-Anne Robertson | Lecturer
- Dr Hannah Roome | Lecturer in Psychology
- Professor Candy Rowe | Professor of Animal Behaviour and Cognition, Dean of Research Culture and Strategy
- Professor Evelyne Sernagor | Professor in Retinal Neuroscience
- Dr Lisa Shaw | Reader in Stroke Research
- Dr Tom Smulders | Reader in Evolutionary Neuroscience
- Dr Demetris Soteropoulos | Senior Lecturer
- Professor David Steel | Honorary Professor of Retinal Surgery
- Dr Karen Suetterlin | NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Neurophysiology
- Dr Rhys Thomas | Reader in Epilepsy
- Professor Andrew Trevelyan | Professor of Network Neuroscience
- Dr Margaret Vogelzang | Lecturer in Psychology
- Dr Quoc Vuong | Senior Lecturer
- Dr Mourad Wahba | Consultant Psychiatrist
- Professor Phil White |Professor of Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology
- Professor Roger Whittaker | Professor of Clinical Neurophsiology
- Dr Victoria Wing | Academc Clinical Fellow
- Dr Yu-Tzu Wu | NU Academic Track Fellow (NUAcT)
- Dr Alison Yarnall | Clinical Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant
- Dr Laura Young | UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
HaSS
- Professor Karen Corrigan | Director of Research in Linguistics
- Professor Ghada Khattab | Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
- Dr Vic Knowland | Lecturer in Speech and Language Sciences
- Dr Sarah Morley | Lecturer in Law
- Dr Christos Salis | Reader in Speech & Language Sciences
- Dr Faye Smith | Lecturer in Speech and Language
- Dr Janet Webster | Reader in Speech and Language Sciences
- Dr Laurence White | Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language
- Dr Rebecca Woods | Senior Lecturer: Language and Cognition
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- Dr Madihah Rushaidhi | Associate Professor
PAS
- Dr Sarah Whalley | Research Strategy Manager
- Angela Mattison | Assistant Project Manager, Centre Administrator
SAgE
- Professor Jaume Bacardit | Professor of Artificial Intelligence
- Professor Patrick Degennar | Professor of Neuroprosthetics
- Dr Kate Harris | NUAcT Fellow
- Dr Mohsen Naqvi | Reader in Signal Processing and AI
- Professor Jeffrey Neasham | Professor of Acoustic Signal Processing
- Dr Tom Nye | Senior Lecturer
- Professor Anthony O'Neill | Siemens Professor of Microelectronics
- Dr Luca Panzone | Reader in Environmental Economics
- Dr Peter Taylor | Reader in Computational Neurology
- Yujiang Wang | Future Leaders Fellow
The Centre is managed by the Steering Group:
The Steering Group is drawn from across the University’s three faculties.
- Professor Andrew Jackson | Professor of Neural Interfaces (Co-Director, FMS)
- Dr Fiona LeBeau | Reader in Neural Networks (Co-Director, FMS)
- Dr Luke Bashford | NUAcT Fellow: Data and Digital Biosciences
- Professor Patrick Degenaar | Professor of Neuroprosthetics (SAgE)
- Dr Paul Donaghy | MRC Clinician Scientist (FMS)
- Dr Daniel Erskine | Senior Lecturer Neurodegenrative Pathology (FMS)
- Professor Anya Hulbert | Professor of Visual Neuroscience (FMS)
- Professor Andrew Jackson | Professor of Neural Interfaces (FMS)
- Professor Adrian Rees | Professor of Auditory Neuroscience (FMS)
- Dr Nick Riches | Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Pathology (HaSS)
- Professor Alex Thiele | Professor of Visual Neuroscience (FMS)
- Dr Yujiang Wang | Reader in Computational Neuroscience (SAgE)
- Angela Mattison | Centre Administrator (FMS)
The Steering Group encourages new initiatives, explores wider funding opportunities (including philanthropy) and develops the centre’s strategy.
If you want to know more about the centre or have a question, contact us at centreforneuroscience@ncl.ac.uk.