Our Team

Dr Emily Adair
Research Associate

Bshaier Allehyany
PhD Student

Aydan Askarova
PhD Student

Marirena Bafaloukou
Research Assistant/PhD Student

Dr Samuel Barnes
Deputy Centre Director, UK DRI Group Leader

Josh Beale
Project Officer

Dr Diana Benitez
Project Co-ordinator

Sam Boulger
PhD Student

Dr Marco Brancaccio
UK DRI Group Leader

Dr Baptiste Brulé
Research Associate

Dr Nicole Byron
Research Associate in Circadian Biology

Dr Francesca Cavallo
Research Associate in Molecular Epidemiology

Dr Francesca Chaloner
Research Associate

Nicholas Chan
PhD Student

Rishideep Chatterjee
Research Assistant

Vicky Chau
Research Assistant/PhD Student

Toby Clark
PhD Student

Megan Coates
Research Assistant in Single-Cell Genomics

Christopher Crampton
PhD Student

Luiza Damoc
PhD Student

Hiranyamaya Dash
Research Assistant

Thomas Deegan
PhD Student

Professor Abbas Dehghan
Professor in Molecular Epidemiology

Dr Nazanin Doostdar
Research Associate and Laboratory Manager in Homeostatic Neural Plasticity

Vanessa Drevenakova
PhD Student

Waleed Elgrawani
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Fellow, Research Associate

Professor Paul Elliott CBE FMedSci FRS
UK DRI Group Leader

Dr Farnaz Fahimi Hanzaee
Research Associate

Dr Nurun Fancy
Edmond and Lily Safra Research Fellow

Dr Marco Ferrari
Research Associate

Professor Nick Franks FMedSci FRS
Professor of Biophysics and Anaesthetics

Tatiana Georgiades
PhD Student

Charbel Gergian
Research Assistant/PhD Student

Fontaine Gibbs
PhD Student

Isidora Gocmanac
PhD Student

Anjali Golding
PhD Student

Sarina Grewal
PhD Student

Dr Nir Grossman
UK DRI Group Leader

Marcio Guiomar de Oliveira
Research Technician in Neurogenomics

Dr Barak Hadad
Research Associate

Terry Huang
Research Assistant in Molecular Epidemiology

Anastasia Ilina
Research Assistant/PhD Student

Dr Johanna Jackson
Alzheimer's Society Dementia Research Leader, UK DRI Emerging Leader

Dr Raina Jia
Research Associate

Dr Nataliia Katolikova
Research Associate

Dr Fotios Koskeridis
Research Associate

Dr Danielle Kurtin
Research Fellow

Dr Michael Lattke
Research Associate

Jade Leung
Research Assistant/PhD Student

Dr Junheng Li
Research Associate

Martin Lombard
PhD Student

Ratnesh Maheswaran
Research Assistant

Dr Jared G Maina
Research Associate

Jamie Malcolm
PhD Student

Dr Anna Mallach
Edmond and Lily Safra Research Fellow, UK DRI Emerging Leader

Professor Paul Matthews FMedSci
UK DRI Group Leader

Dr Charlie McKechnie
Clinical PhD Fellow

Jay Moore
PhD Student

Dr Sophie Morse
UKRI Future Leader Fellow, UK DRI Emerging Leader

Dr Elina Nagaeva
Research Associate

Ana Narvaez Paliza
Research Technician

Dr Mathieu Nollet
Research Associate in Circadian Rhythms

Dr Alexi Nott
UK DRI Group Leader

Professor David Owen
Head of Clinical Studies, NIHR Imperial Clinical Research Facility

Marianna Papageorgopoulou
Research Assistant/PhD Student

Sabino Mendez Pastor
PhD Student

Anaiya Patel
PhD Student

Ashlesha Patil
PhD Student

Leire Garrido Perez
PhD Student

Dr Kjara Pilch
BBSRC Discovery Fellow

Dr Rui Pinto
Research Associate in Chemometrics/Metabolomics

Dr Jennifer Podesta
Head of Operations

Dr Carola Radulescu
Edmond and Lily Safra Research Fellow

Caroline Rew
PhD Student

Cecilia Rodriguez Ruenes
Research Assistant in Machine Learning for Medicine

Isabella Russell-Smith
PhD Student

Dr Cynthia Sandor
UK DRI Group Leader, Edmond J. Safra Lecturer

Manaal Shah
PhD Student

Lucas Siu
PhD Student

Dr Nathan Skene
UK DRI Group Leader

Dr Alex Smith
Research Fellow Data Scientist

Dr Aina Badia Soteras
Research Associate

Dr Berta Anuncibay Soto
Research Associate in Sleep & Neurodegeneration

Eline Stas
PhD Student

Craig Terris
PhD Student

Michael Thomas
Bioinformaticist

Eduardo Lopez Tobar
Laboratory Technician

Assaf Touboul
PhD Student

Lauren Troy
Project Officer

Professor Ioanna Tzoulaki
Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Janna van Dalen
PhD Student

Dr Xingjian Wang
Research Associate

Dr Naoto Watamura
Edmond and Lily Safra Research Fellow

Dr Maria Weinert
Research Associate

Emilie Wielezynski
PhD Student

Dr Simon Williamson
Clinical PhD Fellow

Megan Winterbotham
Senior Laboratory Manager

Professor William Wisden FMedSci FRS
Centre Director, UK DRI Group Leader

Jan Wos
PhD Student

Sydney Xie
PhD Student

Dr Reuben Yaa
Research Associate in Neuroepigenomics

Ceren Yalcin
PhD Student

Dr Kimberly Young
Research Associate

Dr Elodie Yu
Research Associate

Dr Katarzyna Zoltowska
Research Associate in Computational Genomics

Dr Verena Zuber
Associate Professor in Biostatics