Current members
Andrea Erazo Hidalgo
PhD student (ESRC-SeNSS funding)
Andrea completed the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. She aims to use computational models of behaviour and neurophysiological data to identify learning biases in musicians.
Rebecca Bishop
PhD student
Rebecca completed the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. Her project investigates neural-respiratory coupling during motor decision-making, using immersive video games, concurrent with recordings of breathing and electroencephalography.
Francesca Torno Jimenez
PhD student
Francesca investigates the role of brain-cardiac interactions in creativity.
Carla Mannino
MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Carla is investigating periodic and aperiodic components of MEG brain rhythms during decision making.
Ozge Sengil
MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Ozge is investigating brain-respiratory coupling during highly complex video game performance.
Dareen Ahmad
MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Dareen is investigating links between reward-based motor processes and mood.
Maya Ciftci
MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology
Maya is investigating links between reward-based motor processes and mood.
Caryn Martin
MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Caryn is investigating the interaction between working memory and reinforcement learning in performance anxiety.
Dawn Van Camp
MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Dawn is investigating the interaction between working memory and reinforcement learning in performance anxiety.
Liudmila Pagis
MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Liudmila is investigating learning of rhythmic patterns via reinforcement.
Former members
Dr. Marina Ivanova 
PhD student (HSE University, Moscow)
Marina defended her PhD on 17.10.2025. Her PhD project focused on mental health and motor decision making.
Dr. Giuseppe Lai
PhD student
Giuseppe defended his PhD on 11.06.2024. His PhD focused on brain-computer interfaces and machine learning. The PhD project was funded by BrainControl and LiquidWeb Srl and co-supervised by Dr. David Landi.
Dr. Margherita Tecilla
PhD student
Margherita defended her PhD on 27.11.2023. In her PhD project she investigated reward-based motor learning in Parkinson’s and healthy ageing.
Dr. Thomas P. Hein
PhD student (ESRC-SeNSS funding)
Thomas defended his PhD on 17.11.2021 (no revisions). His PhD focused on computational modelling of learning and decision making in anxiety.
Dr. Panagiota Polychrony
PhD Student (second supervisor)
Naya defended her PhD in July 2022 (no revisions). Her PhD focused on metacognition.
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
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.
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