People
Our Team
- People
Our Team
Dr. Lei Zhang, Principal InvestigatorLei is an Associate Professor directing the Adaptive Learning Psychology & Neuroscience (ALPN) Lab, at the Centre for Human Brain Health and Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK. Lei was a Postdoc fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at the SCAN-Unit, University of Vienna. Before that, he worked in the Gläscher Lab (PhD, summa cum laude, and 1-year postdoc) at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, and he also worked as a Roche intern for Scientific Exchange (RiSE), based in the Clinical Computational Neuroscience Group at Roche Innovation Center Basel, Switzerland.
Dr. Anne Saulin, Postdoctoral FellowAnne completed her PhD at the University of Würzburg. She is interested in the neural bases of prosocial behavior. By adopting a neuro-computational approach and applying mathematical modelling techniques, she wants to understand what neural and behavioral processes foster or hinder prosocial behavior. In this vein, she uses different neural (fMRI, EEG) and behavioral (mouse-tracking, experience sampling, reaction time experiments) methods.
Aamir Sohail, PhD studentAamir is a first-year MRC Advanced Interdisciplinary Methods (AIM) DTP PhD student. His research interests involve using a combination of behavioral tasks, computational modeling, and neuroimaging to understand social decision-making, and using this knowledge to inform the precision-based treatment of mental health disorders. He aims to use these methods to identify the neurocomputational mechanisms and associated brain regions affecting learning in social anxiety, and in a novel initiative, attempt to alleviate these changes using a mobile app-based cognitive therapy program.
Kubra Fethiye Karatas, Research AssistantKübra is a research associate supervised by Prof. Matthew Apps and Dr. Lei Zhang. She completed a BSc in Psychology and Biology at the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and holds an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Trento in Italy. She is interested in the neural mechanisms of social cognition and decision-making processes in health and neurodegeneration using computational models.
- Gwynnevere Suter, PhD student
Gwynnevere is a first year Psychology PhD student funded by the College of Live and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. Her project focuses on identifying mechanistic relationships and differences between dissociation and psychosis. To do this, Gwynnevere uses self-monitoring memory tests, fMRI, and computational modelling across clinical and non-clinical groups. She is also a representative for the Psychology postgraduate research students at the university level and is working with Dr Emma Černis on a pilot randomised control trial of cognitive behavioural therapy for dissociation.
