Current lab members
Sanjay Manohar
Sanjay is an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow, Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant Neurologist.
Eda Mizrak
Eda is a Marie Curie Fellow in the lab and Lecturer at Queen Mary’s. Eda was awarded the APS Rising Star Award in 2023. She works on the interaction of long-term and short-term memory, using EEG and MEG.
Sam Recht
Sam is a postdoctoral researcher and Fyssen Postdoctoral Fellow. He works on working memory, metacognition and attention, using MEG.
Giulio Mastria
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow, studying neural computations of body ownership. He uses pharmacology, virtual reality and MEG.
Xin You Tai
Xin You is an academic consultant neurologist and was a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellow. He works on cognitive changes in epilepsy. He studies the mechanisms of memory impairment in patients with seizures.
Youssuf Saleh
Youssuf is a postdoctoral neurology trainee and NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the John Radcliffe Hospital who works on dopaminergic control over rapid dynamic changes in motivation.
Thomas Parr
Thomas is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and postdoctoral researcher. He uses active inference to understand neurological disorders.
Previous lab members
Kinan Muhammed
NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Neurology (2020) studying the effects of reward, motivation and mood on memory. He applies precise measures of eye movements and pupil dilatation to clinical populations with deficits in these domains.
John Grogan
Postdoctoral researcher working on motivation and how it relates to working memory and motor control (2018-2020). He studies how reward can improve the precision of cognitive processes.
Andrea Bocincova
Postdoctoral researcher (2018-2020) working in collaboration with Prof. Mark Stokes on working memory. She employed computational models to look for flexible and dynamic coding in prefrontal cortex.
Doctoral Students
Sun Lin 2025-: rapid synaptic plasticity in recurrent neural networks allows independent encoding of structure and content
Claudia Gendarini 2025-: control of information sampling during multi-attribute clinical decision-making
Max Doody 2026-: pharmacological perturbation of excitatory/inhibitory balance, indexed by EEG
Isabel Lau 2025-: dopaminergic coding of multi-dimensional prediction errors
Yuhao Wang 2022-2026: basal ganglia coding of habitual and reward-driven action selection
Younes Tabi – attentional selection of information within working memory
Fitzroy Wickham 2022-2025: white matter contributions to information sampling under uncertainty
Moritz Moeller – models of risk learning in the basal ganglia
Maaike van Swieten – appetite effects on value-based decision-making
Stephanie Hirschbichler – effect of dopaminergic drugs on oculomotor indices of reward processing
Frida Printzlau – neural decoding of attentional selection within working memory
Bahaa Attaallah – neural mechanisms of active information sampling in health and disease
RAs and MSc students
- Rowan Board (Research assistant 2022) is now a PhD student at UCL
- Tim Sandhu (Research Assistant, 2018-2020) is now a PhD student in Cambridge
- Rebecca Dawn Finzi (Master’s Student) is now a PhD student at Stanford
- Matthias Raemaekers (Master’s student 2020) is doing a PhD at U Gent, Netherlands
- Simon Reichert (UAS Offenburg, Germany)