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PhD students

Patrycja Dzialecka

Patrycja Dzialecka

Project title: Development of non-invasive deep brain stimulation technology

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Marco Ferrari

Project Title: Investigating the interplay between circadian clocks and mTOR signalling in microglia and its disruption in neurodegeneration.

Supervisor: Dr Marco Brancaccio

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Ida Bomann

Project Title: Investigation of stress-induced senescence associated with ageing and neurodegeneration

Supervisor: Dr Raffaella Nativio and Professor Jesus Gil

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Parisa Mottaghi

Parisa Mottaghi

Project title: Development of metabolic profiling pipelines for characterising cognitive processes

Supervisors: Professor Elaine Holmes, Professor Bill Wisden and Prof Julian Griffin

Jiabin Tang

Jiabin Tang

Project Title: Characterisation of Glial & Neuronal Pathology Associated with Aβ Proteins in an Alzheimer’s Disease Model

Supervisor: Prof. Paul Matthews and Prof. Steve Gentleman

Matteo Vinao-Carl

Project title: Closed-loop, personalized brain stimulation intervention for impairment of cognitive control

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Joe Airey

Joseph Airey

Project title: Investigating Homeostatic Plasticity in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Sam Barnes

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Anjali Golding

Project Title: Elucidating Genetic Regulatory Networks in Alzheimer’s Disease with Drug Repurposing

Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews and Dr Eugene Duff

Leire Melgosa

Leire Melgosa Ecenarro

Project Title: Functional and molecular signatures of synaptic vulnerability in early Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Dr Samuel Barnes and Dr Johanna Jackson

Junheng, Xiaoqi, Jean

Junheng Li

Junheng Li

Project title: Non-invasive closed-loop neuromodulation for restorative sleep in neurodegenerative diseases

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Xiaoqi Zhu

Xiaoqi Zhu

Project title: Development of non-invasive deep brain stimulation technology for neuroscience research and therapy

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Jean Rintoul

Jean Rintoul

Project title: Non-invasive focused stimulation of neural activity

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Kety, Brian, Liina

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Ketevan Alania

Project title: Non-invasive deep brain stimulation to modulate brain activity and related function

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Brian Schilder

Brian Schilder

Project title: Predicting the epigenomic and clinical phenotypic effects of genomic mutations through deep learning

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

Liina Sirvio

Liina Sirvio

Project title: Post-translational modifications of amyloid proteins for proteasomal degradation

Supervisor: Dr Yu Ye

Xiaowen, Maria, Natalie

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Xiaowen Zhang

Project Title: Spatially resolved transcriptome profiling in post-mortem human brains of Alzheimer’s disease

Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews

Maria Tsalenchuk

Project title: Elucidation of epigenetic mechanisms involved in Parkinson’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Sarah Marzi, Professor Paul Matthews

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Natalie Ness

Project Title: Investigation of the role of astrocytes in encoding circadian function and their mis-regulation in Alzheimer’s disease

Supervisor: Dr Marco Brancaccio

Roxy Kitty

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Roxy Zhang

Project title: Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain disorders using single nucleus ATAC-seq data

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

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Kitty Murphy

Project Title: Identification of cell types underlying genomic evolution in primates and how this relates to genetic risk for brain disorders

Supervisors: Dr Nathan Skene, Professor Steve Gentleman, Dr Sarah Marzi

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Janis Transfeld

Project Title: The role of genetic risk variants in regulatory elements in Parkinson’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott

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Matilda Burridge

Project Title: Immunoproteasomes in tauopathies

Supervisors: Dr Yu Ye, Dr Johanna Jackson

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Kevin Ziegler

Project Title: Exploration of enhancer landscapes in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients with the aim to reveal signalling pathways associated with the disease pathogenesis

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott

Eléonore Schneegans

Project Title: Multi-omics analyses for human Alzheimer’s disease research

Supervisor: Dr. Nurun Fancy, Dr. Johanna Jackson, Professor Paul M Matthews

Alan

Alan Murphy

Alan Murphy

Project Title: Prediction of cell-type specific effects of genetic variants in Alzheimer's disease.

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

Xingjian Wang

Project title: Proteomic signatures of synaptic vulnerability and resilience in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Samuel Barnes

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    • Jiabin Tang
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    • Joe Airey
    • Riad Yagoubi
    • Leire Melgosa Ecenarro
    • Junheng Li
    • Xiaoqi Zhu
    • Jean Rintoul
    • Ketevan Alania
    • Liina Sirvio
    • Kitty Murphy
    • Brian Schilder
    • Natalie Ness
    • Roxy Zhang
    • Maria Tsalenchuk
    • Kevin Ziegler
    • Janis Transfeld
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    • A conversation with Dr Amy Smith by Dr Adesola Bello
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    • A conversation with Professor Paul Matthews by Roxy Zhang
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Imperial ranked sixth best university in the world


The College has risen one place to sixth in the QS World University Rankings for 2023, putting it third in the UK and top in London.

"These results reaffirm that Imperial is one of the best universities in the world."
Professor Alice Gast, President

Read more about the College's recent recognitions in this article

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