Qualifications
PhD. in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, England.
MA. in Experimental Physics from University of Cambridge, England
Appointments
Principal Investigator, Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario
Cross Appointment, Department of Medical Imaging, University of Western Ontario
Scientist, Maternal, Fetal and Newborn Health Program, Children’s Health Research Institute
Member, Biomedical Imaging Research Centre
Affiliate, The Africa Institute
Co-Investigator, Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, Cambridge, UK
Visiting Scientist, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Career to date
| 01/2008-06/2011 | Programme Leader Track; Acting Head of MR Physics MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK |
| 03/2004-12/2007 | Senior Investigator Scientist MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK |
| 10/1997-02/2004 | Research Fellow MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK |
Recent grant awards
| Jul 2012 | The Canadian-Kenyan Research Partnership to provide internationally affordable neuroimaging technology for neonatal assessment and data sharing | Western International Research Fund | Sole applicant |
| Apr 2012 | Assessing neonatal brain function with fMRI | NSERC/CIHR Collaborative Health Research Program | PI, with 8 co-Investigators |
| Apr 2012 | New neuroimaging methods for the study of short-term memory | NSERC Discovery | Sole applicant |
| Aug 2011 | Representation of sounds in the brain during listening, memory & imagery | Ontario Ministry for Research and Innovation | Annika Linke |
| Jun 2010 | Probing Visual Short-Term Memory representations | Wellcome Trust | Sole applicant |
| Oct 2009 | Systems Cognitive Neuroscience of Healthy Ageing: Population-representative studies of Functional Plasticity and Neural Change | BBSRC | Major partner, PI Lorraine Tyler |
| Aug 2009 | Multimodal imaging of parietal brain networks in adults and children with developmental dyscalculia | MRC (UK) | Major partner, PI Denes Szucs |
| Apr 2009 | Selective attention, short term memory and the parietal lobe | MRC intramural funding | Sole applicant |
| Jul 2008 | Automatic Analysis for Neuroimaging | MRC Technology | PI with Adrian Owen |
Refereeing and examination
For journals: Brain; Brain Research; Cognition; Current Biology; European Journal of Neuroscience; Experimental Brain Research; Human Brain Mapping; IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging; JARO; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; Journal of Experimental Psychology – Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Neuroscience; Journal of Vision; MRI; MAGMA; Nature Methods; Nature Neuroscience; Neurocase; NeuroImage; Neuropsychologia; Perception; Perception & Psychophysics; Psychological Science; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
For grant bodies: BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NSF, Scottish Hospitals Research Trust
Examiner, PhD: Veronica Dobler, Nicholas Hon, Aspa Paltoglou, Kristjan Kalm
Examiner, Masters level: Hannah Pincham, Lefkothea-Vasiliki Andreou