Current members
Margherita Tecilla
PhD student
Margherita completed a MSc is in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology. In her PhD project she investigates reward-based motor learning in Parkinson’s and healthy ageing.
Giuseppe Lai
PhD student
Giuseppe completed the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at Goldsmiths during 2019-20. He works on brain-computer interfaces and machine learning. The PhD project is funded by BrainControl and LiquidWeb Srl and co-supervised by Dr. David Landi.
Marina Ivanova 
PhD student (HSE University, Moscow)
Marina completed a MSc in Cognitive Sciences and Technologies at the HSE University (Moscow, 2019-2021). Her PhD project focuses on mental health and motor decision making.
Nicalia ThompSon 
MA graduate in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Nicalia is assessing the validity of VR to induce and measure performance anxiety in musicians in controlled lab settings
Chloe Choong
MSc student
Chloe is investigating the neural, cardiac and respiratory processes underlying skilled performance in video games
Prasanth Girija Prem
MSc student
Prasanth is investigating the neural, cardiac and respiratory processes underlying skilled performance in video games
Jenny Halseid
MSc student
Jenny is investigating learning biases in musicians using neuroscientific methods.
Louise Minel
MSc student
Louise’s project focuses on the effects of pharmacological aids on musical performance.
Ksenia Germanova
PostDoc, M.D (HSE university, Moscow)
Ksenia is a psychiatrist, with a MSc degree in Cognitive Sciences and Technologies. She is working in a project on motor decision making in bipolar disorder
Andrea Erazo Hidalgo
MSc student
Andrea aims to use computational models of behaviour and neurophysiological data to identify learning biases in musicians.
Marko Dimitrovski
Research Assistant
Marko completed the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. He is working in a new project that utilises to behavioural, neuroscientific and computational approaches to understand learning biases in musicians and the effects of pharmacological aids on musical performance.
Former members at Goldsmiths University of London
Dr. Thomas P. Hein
PhD (ESRC funding)
Thomas defended his PhD on 17.11.2021 (no revisions)
Panagiota Polychrony
PhD Student (second supervisor)
Naya defended her PhD in July 2022
Laura Damm
MSc student
MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Rosemarie Coetzer
MSc student
MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Marko Dimitrovski
MSc student
MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Andrei-Cosmin Solot
MSc student
MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Vlada Trofimchuk
USA visiting student
Research assistant
Justyna Gula
Researcher (BIAL funding)
Neuronal oscillations
Dominika Stachnialek
MSc student
MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Ilenia Salaris
MSc student
MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Sebin Sebu
MSc student
MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Osama Shah
MSc student
MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Lisa Pearson
MSc student
MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Hio Tsou
MSc student
MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Katherine Warburton
MSc student
MSc in Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience
Caroline Rafizadeh
MSc student
MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Kate Schwarz
MSc student
MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Letizia Gionfrida
PhD Student
Neuro-feedback, Machine Learning
Gabriela Perez
Visiting PhD Student
Auditory Processing, Music Cognition
Serra Yağış
MSc Student
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Caroline Connell
MSc Student
TMS and motor learning
Agathe Fauchille
MSc Student
Neuroscience and Music
Sasha Koushk-Jalali
MSc Student
Neuroscience and Music
Viqar Ahmad
MSc student
Resting state EEG
Evgeniya Alenina
Visiting MSc student from Tomsk University
Anxiety and Cognitive Neuroscience.
Bianca Iacono
Visiting research assistant from University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
Clinical Psychology.
Georgina Floridou
Visiting PostDoctoral Researcher
Music Imagery, Earworms
Sebastian Sporn
Research Assistant / Now PhD Student at Joe Galea’s Lab at Birmingham University
Motor Control, Sensorimotor Learning
Gabriely Bury
MSc Student
Neuroscience of Music Performance
Kristi von Handorf
MSc Student
Performance and Anxiety
Andrew Middleton
MSc Student
Performance and Anxiety
Former members at the Centre for Cognition & Decision Making of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Grigory Kopytin
MSc student
Computational modelling of musical reward
Anna Shishkina
MSc student
Neural oscillations in autism spectrum disorders.
Zheng Gong
MSc student
Anxiety and decision-making.
Olesya Moiseenko
MSc student
Somatosensory processing.
Maria Azanova
MSc student / Now PhD Student at the Max Planck School of Cognition
Neural oscillations in reward processing.
Former members at the Neurophysics Group of the Charité – University of Medicine Berlin
Mihail Bogojeski
Research Assistant / Now PhD Student at the Machine Learning Group of the Technical University of Berlin
Machine Learning, Brain-Computer Interface
Giorgos Michail
Research Assistant / Now PhD Student at the Multisensory group
Multisensory Integration, Cognitive Neuroscience