ICN/FIL: Awareness Group
Professor Geraint Rees
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Geraint is the group leader. Funded by a Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellowship, he holds a personal chair at University College London and is an honorary consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery. His research seeks to understand the neural basis of human consciousness. In 2003 he was awarded the Young Investigator Medal of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping at the Human Brain Mapping meeting in New York, and in 2007 was awarded the Experimental Psychology Society Prize and the Royal Society Francis Crick medal. In 2009 he gave the Goulstonian Lecture of the Royal College of Physicians and in 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He has been Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience since 2009.

Current lab members are listed below (in alphabetical order!) and you can also read about the destination of former lab members here

Elaine Anderson is back! She left (see alumni pages) and works with Steve Dakin at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, but is now back again working one day/week in the lab
Bahador Bahador Bahrami is a postdoctoral fellow who divides his time between here and Aarhus. He is supported by a British Academy Postdoctoral fellowship. Trained in visual psychophysics and TMS, he works on just about everything!
Mia Dong is an undergraduate in Psychology at UCL and works in the lab on distractibility and brain structure.
Benjamin de Haas is a Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD student and after alaboratory rotation in 09/10 joined the lab for his PhD in 2010. He works on cross-modal perception in collaboration with Jon Driver.
Jinendra Ekanayake is a Wellcome Trust-funded Clinical Research Training Fellow, working towards a PhD since 2009. In his other life he is a higher specialist trainee in neurosurgery. He works on real time fMRI of visual perception.
Sharon Gilaie-Dotan is a postdoctoral fellow working on neural mechanisms of time perception and funded by a Marie-Curie Fellowship
Ryota Kanai is a postdoctoral fellow who joined the laboratory in 2010 supported by a JSPS Fellowship. He works on lots of cool things, but at the moment mostly on how individual differences in brain anatomy predict a wide variety of behaviors.
Kristian Sandberg is a graduate student in Morten Overgaard's group at Aarhus (Denmark) and collaborates with us on MEG studies of bistable perception. He will shortly become a collaborating postdoctoral fellow!
Frank Scharnowski is a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow and works on real-time functional MRI applied to visual perception
Sam Schwarzkopf is a postdoctoral fellow funded by Geraint's SRF. He trained with Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff) and Zoe Kourtzi (Birmingham). Sam's interests are the functional organisation and development of the visual system and he studies how visual awareness interacts with perceptual grouping
Chen Song begun working in the laboratory as an MSc student in Cognitive Psychology at UCL, and now is a PhD student funded by the Brain Research Trust
Maren Urner is a Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD student and after alaboratory rotation in 09/10 joined the lab for her PhD in 2010. She works on perceptual learning and brain plasticity.
Joel Winston is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurology. He works on neural mechanisms of interoception

 

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Geraint can be reached on +44 (0)20 7679 5496 - fax +44 (0)20 7813 1420