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Affiliates of the Institute of Mental Health with expertise in Epidemiology.

Humma Andleeb

PhD student,ÌýInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Other research interests include

Psychological Interventions ´¥ÌýNeuroscience | Global Mental Health | Wellbeing | PsychosocialÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

Sarah Ashley

PhD student, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Neuroscience | Psychosocial | Mood DisordersÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health


Senior research fellow, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences

Other research interests include

Psychosocial | Trauma | Children and Young People’s Mental Health

Jessica Bone

Research Fellow in Epidemiology and Statistics,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology and Health

Jess has taught on various programmes in ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Division of Psychiatry and Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care, including the Clinical Mental Health Sciences MSc, Mental Health Sciences Research MSc and Dementia: Causes, Treatments and Research MSc. She has contributed to modules including Statistics for Mental Health Research, Core Principles of Mental Health Research, Current Research in Children's and Young People's Mental Health, and Current Research in Depression and Anxiety.

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | PsychosocialÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

Feifei Bu

Senior Research Fellow,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology andÌýHealth

Feifei Bu is senior research fellow in statistics/epidemiology,Ìýworking with Dr Daisy Fancourt on a number of projects. She is the principal investigator of the NHS England funded project looking at patient activation measure and social prescribing, and a co-investigator of the EpiArts project examining the relationship between art & cultural engagement and behavioural & health outcomes using US cohort data. She also works on the COVID-19 Social Study investigating the psychological and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Other research interests include

Psychosocial | Physical Health | Older Adult Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýCognition


Academic Foundation Doctor, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Dementia | NeuroscienceÌý| ÌýSerious Mental Illness | Older Adult Mental Health


Dorina CadarÌýÌý ÌýÌý

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Epidemiology & Health CognitionÌý

Other research interests include

DementiaÌý| Neuroscience | Psychosocial Ìý

Christina Carlisi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychology and Language Sciences

I am a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome research fellow in theÌýÌýat ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº. Through my fellowship, I am also affiliated with theÌýÌýat Duke University. My current research uses computational methods (e.g. computational modelling, psychophysics) to examine affective processing. I am interested in how individual differences in diverse factors such as early life experiences and neurobiological mechanisms give rise to (or protect us from) the development of mental health problems and am particularly interested in developing more sensitive measures of individual differences to study how behavioural traits such as anxiety and conduct problems develop across childhood and adolescence.

Other research interests include

NeuroscienceÌý| Mood DisordersÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýCognition

Wai Chang

Research Assistant,ÌýInstitute of Health Informatics

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health

Ping-Jen ChenÌý

PhD Training Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Older Adult Mental Health | Physical HealthÌý´¥ÌýDementia

Brian Ching

Research Assistant,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýPhysical Health ´¥ÌýPsychological Interventions

Lorna Collins

Research Fellow,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology and Health

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Wellbeing | Global Mental Health | Psychological Interventions

Claudia Cooper

Professor of Psychiatry of Older Age,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

I am interested in the epidemiology of older people's mental health, happiness and wellbeing, and in the mental health of carers of people with dementia. Other research interests include elder abuse - its epidemiology and prevention; and the provision of quality and equality in dementia care.

Other research interests include

Dementia ´¥ÌýPsychological Interventions | CognitionÌý| Qualitative Research

Christian Dalton-Locke

PhD Student and Research Assistant,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness

Anthony David

Professor of Mental Health Director & Sackler Chair, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Mental Health

I graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980 and trained in neurology before entering psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London.ÌýÌýI also have a Masters degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology.ÌýÌýI was an honorary consultant at the Maudsley from 1990-2018 and was awarded a personal chair from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London in 1996. I was Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the IoPPN in 2013-8.

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness ´¥ÌýCognitionÌý´¥ÌýNeuroscienceÌý| Physical Health

Neil Davies

Professor of Medical Statistics, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition | Dementia | Digital Health | Physical Health | Psychosocial

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PhD student in mental health science (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº-Wellcome programme), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Cognition ´¥ÌýNeuroscience | Psychological InterventionsÌý|

Jen Dykxhoorn

Senior Research Fellow,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology andÌýHealth

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Serious Mental Illness | Global Mental Health | Psychosocial | Substance AbuseÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health


Academic Clinical, Fellow in Primary Care and Population Health

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Global Mental Health | Health and Social Care | Wellbeing | Trauma | Suicide and Self-harm | Serious Mental Illness | Digital Health | Mood Disorders | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychosocial

Saoirse Finn

PhD Researcher,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology andÌýHealth

Other research interests include

Physical Health | Older Adult Mental Health | Mood Disorders ´¥ÌýGenetics


Professor,ÌýInstitute of Education

Other research interests include

CognitionÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental HealthÌý


PhD Candidate, Division of Psychology and Language SciencesÌýÌý ÌýÌý Ìý

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýEpidemiology | Serious Mental Illness | Older Adult Mental HealthÌý| Trauma | WellbeingÌý


PhD Research Student, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Neuroscience | Psychosocial | Cognition | Serious Mental Illness

Dawid Gondek

Research Fellow,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology and Health

Dawid’s main research interests lie in:
- Life course development of mental health and wellbeing
- Risk factors, mainly in early-life, for poor mental health and wellbeingÌý
- Generational trends in health, with a focus on mental health, and their determinants

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Wellbeing

Ishtar Govia

Visiting Research Fellow,ÌýInstitute of Advanced Studies

Other research interests include

Dementia | Global Mental Health | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Psychological Interventions | Pychosocial | Health and Social Care ´¥ÌýCognitionÌý| Integrated Approaches | Multimorbidity

Talya GreeneÌý

Senior Lecturer and Honorary Associate Professor,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Trauma | Psychosocial

Laura Grover

Research Assistant,ÌýQueen Square Institute of Neurology

Other research interests include

Older Adult Mental Health | Mood Disorders ´¥ÌýNeuroscienceÌý´¥ÌýDementia

Dan Hayes

Senior Research Fellow,ÌýAnna Freud Centre

Other research interests include

Psychological Interventions ´¥ÌýGlobal Mental Health | PsychosocialÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

Joseph Hayes

Principal Research Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Research areas:
- Life course epidemiology of bipolar disorder, risk factors, prodrome, treatments and long-term outcomes, including physical health problems
- Using routine data from primary and secondary care electronic health records and population cohorts to further the understanding of the epidemiology of severe mental illness
- Pharmacoepidemiology and physical health effects in severe mental illness
- Physical activity and mental health
- Ecological Momentary Assessment of mood
- Personalized treatments for severe mental illness
- Social determinants of severe mental health problems
- Drug re-purposing in psychiatry

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Serious Mental Illness ´¥ÌýPharmacology | Physical Health


Georgie Hudson

PhD Student,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý| Trauma | Serious Mental Illness | Psychological Interventions

Lecturer, Institute of Education

Other research interests include

| Serious Mental Illness ´¥ÌýPharmacology ´¥Ìý

Sonia Johnson

Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

My main interests are in the clinical and social needs and the treatment outcomes of people with significant mental health problems such as psychosis and bipolar disorder. The areas in which I've worked most have been acute care and early psychosis. I have had a major role in several studies of crisis services, including evaluations of crisis resolution teams and of alternatives to standard inpatient care. My clinical work is as consultant psychiatrist in the Camden and Islington Early Intervention Service for psychosis.

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | PsychosocialÌý| Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý| Applied clinical research (development and testing of interventions)

Aaron Kandola

PhD Candidate,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders ´¥ÌýNeuroscience | Physical Health | WellbeingÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health


Garrett Kidd

Research Assistant,ÌýDivision of PsychiatryÌýÌý Ìý

Other research interests include

Epidemiology | Global Mental Health | Health and Social Care | Mood Disorders | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Serious Mental Illness | Substance abuse | Suicide and Self-harm | Trauma | Wellbeing

Karel Kieslich

PhD Student,ÌýInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Neuroscience | Substance Abuse | Pharmacology

James Kirkbride

Reader in Epidemiology,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

My lab,ÌýPsyLifeÌý(), aims to investigateÌýthe social determinants of psychosis at multiple levels of causation across the life course.ÌýI amÌýparticularly interested in understanding how our social, built and physical environments can affect the risk of psychosis, and why migrants and their descendants show elevated rates of psychotic disorder. This research is explored throughÌýseries of multilevel and longitudinal epidemiological investigations. Our research currently includesÌýtwo large, epidemiological studies of first episode psychosis: the Social Epidemiology of Psychoses in East Anglia study [SEPEA] ) and the Cambridgeshire centre of the EUropean network of schizophrenia networks studying Gene-Environment Interactions [EU-GEI] (). Future research projects will focus on Swedish linked longitudinal datasets, the UK ALSPAC birth cohort and a Canadian cohort of young people (NLSCY). My past research has been predominantly conducted in the AESOP and East London First Episode Psychosis studies.Ìý

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Global Mental Health | Psychosocial | Psychosis

Associate Professor,ÌýDivision of Psychology and Language Sciences

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Psychological Interventions | Anxiety-related disorders

Rebecca Lacey

Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Lifecourse Epidemiology,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology and Health

I am a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Lifecourse Epidemiology. I am a social epidemiologist who applies a life course approach to understanding the importance of the early family social environment for health across the life course.Ìý

Other research interests include

Psychosocial | Mood Disorders | WellbeingÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

Alvina Lai

Associate Professor,ÌýInstitute of Health Informatics

I have worked on a wide range of topics, ranging from evolution to health genomics. I am particularly interested in how we can use real-world data to tackle cancer and infectious diseases. I would also like to expand my research to include non-communicable diseases such as metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Ìý

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýPhysical HealthÌý´¥ÌýSubstance Abuse

Naomi Launders

PhD Student,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Global Mental Health | Substance Abuse | Physical Health

Glyn Lewis

Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

I am interested in investigating the causes of psychiatric disorder, particularly depressive illness and psychosis. Causal factors that are potentially preventable could be especially useful but clues to aetiology also can improve our understanding of illness and help to devise treatments. I also carry out randomised controlled trials to evaluate treatments for depression in primary care. I aim to carry out research that has practical implications in improving clinical care of people with psychiatric disorder. I want to identify those advances in our neuroscientific understanding that could lead to practicable benefits for patients.

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Pharmacology | Psychological InterventionsÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

Gill Livingston

Professor of Psychiatry of Older People,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

I lead the Lancet standing committee on dementia prevention, intervention and care.

Other research interests include

Dementia | Older Adult Mental Health | PsychosocialÌý´¥ÌýCognition

Mekeda X Logan

Research Assistant,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders ´¥ÌýNeuroscience | Global Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

Maria Long

Trial Manager (NHS) and PhD student,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | Physical Health | Wellbeing ´¥ÌýCognition

Eliazar Luna

Research Fellow

Other research interests include

Global Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Psychosocial

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Peter Martin

Lecturer in Applied Statistics,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology and Health

I work with psychological therapists and academic psychologists to conduct randomized controlled trials of psychological therapies. These studies evaluate new interventions and estimate how effective they are. We also use mixed methods to investigate the therapy process and to find out why and how, not just if, therapies are successful.

I am a member of ChAPTRe, the Child Attachment and Psychological Therapies Research unit at the Anna Freud Centre and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº.

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýNeuroscience | Psychological Interventions

Tayla McCloud

PhD Student,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Mood DisordersÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

Jennifer McGowan

Lecturer,ÌýDivision of Psychology and Language Sciences

My research interests are focused primarily on health psychology. I am interested in projects into:

  • Public health (well-being, smoking, cancer, sexual well-being, lifespan ageing)
  • Positive psychology, resilience, and physical well-beingÌý
  • Sexual well-being in regards to abnormal sexuality

To date my research has explored the biopsychosocial well-being of adults ageing with HIV in relation to both age and time with diagnosed HIV, and project relating to cancer and smoking, and adolescent health and well-being.

Other research interests include

Psychological Interventions | Psychosocial | WellbeingÌý


Nigel McKenzieÌý

Research Associate, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | Suicide and Self-harm | Serious Mental Illness | Substance abuse

Andrew McWilliams

Clinical Research Fellow and Specialist Registrar in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Queen Square Institute of Neurology

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýCognitionÌý´¥ÌýNeuroscienceÌý| Liason Psychiatry

Kate Merritt

Research Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

My research interest is neuroimaging biomarkers of schizophrenia and psychosis. My previous work examined 1H-MRS measures of glutamate in the brain, and their relationship with treatment response in schizophrenia. My current work characterises the neurodevelopmental trajectories of psychotic experiences, and how social risk factors impact brain development to cause psychotic experiences.

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness ´¥ÌýPharmacology | NeuroscienceÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health


PhD student, Centre for Longitudinal StudiesÌýÌý Ìý

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Psychosocial | Global Mental Health

Emily Midouhas

Associate Professor, IOE, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's Faculty of Education and Society

I take a developmental psychopathologyÌýapproach to understanding:Ìý1) The effects of the social and built environmentÌýon the emotional and behavioural problems of children;Ìý2) TheÌýmental health of children with special educational needs across childhood and adolescence, particularly children with ADHD and autism; andÌý3) The role of biological factors in the association between life adversity and mental health across the lifecourse.ÌýI examine these topics usingÌýadvanced quantitative analyses of large-scale longitudinal cohort data.ÌýI am alsoÌýan active memberÌýof ChildÌýBehaviourÌýand Cognition (CuBiC) lab,Ìý.

Other research interests include

Psychological InterventionsÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýCognition

Research Fellow in Population Mental Health, Centre for Longitudinal StudiesÌýÌý Ìý

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Global Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Older Adult Mental Health | Wellbeing

Research Fellow in Psychiatric Epidemiology, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include
Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýSuicide and Self-harm


Academic Clinical, Fellow in Primary Care and Population Health

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Global Mental Health | Health and Social Care | WellbeingÌý | Trauma | Suicide and Self-harm | Serious Mental IllnessÌý| Digital Health | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychosocial

Vasiliki Orgeta

Associate Professor,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Dr Vasiliki Orgeta is a research psychologist interested in emotional well-being in people with dementia and their family carers. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation ofÌý psychological and psychosocial interventions in dementia and mild cognitive impairment. She is also interested in how stress could be influencing risk of dementia and the effect of caregiving on caregivers physical and mental health.

Other research interests include

Wellbeing | Physical Health | Psychosocial | Older Adult Mental Health | Neuroscience | Psychological Interventions | Mood Disorders | DementiaÌý´¥ÌýCognition

David Osborn

Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

David'sÌýmain researchÌýinterests are the interface between physical and mental health, psychiatric epidemiology and the provision of effective and safe interventions for people with severe mental illnesses including psychosis.ÌýHe has published related work over the last 20 years in journals such as The British Medical Journal, British Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry/JAMA Psychiatry.

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Pharmacology | Physical Health | Mood Disorders

Praveetha Patalay

Associate Professor, Social Research Institute & Population Science and Experimental Medicine

My research interests primarily fall in the area of child development and epidemiology with a focus on mental health through the life course including prevalence, risk factors, consequences, developmental pathways and interventions to promote better mental health. In terms of interventions, my research focuses on community based interventions that are not just about treatment but also focus on prevention of problems, reduction of stigma around mental ill-health and promoting greater wellbeing.

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýGlobal Mental Health | Mood Disorders ´¥ÌýWellbeing

Elise Paul

Senior Research Fellow in Epidemiology/Statistics,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology andÌýHealth

Other research interests include

Psychosocial | Wellbeing | Self-harmÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

Rachel Pearson

Research Assistant,ÌýGreat Ormond StreetÌýInstitute of Child Health

I am currently working on a research project which will utilise linked family courts and healthcare data to examine women who become involved in care proceedings and have children placed into out-of-home care. In particular, we aim to identify opportunities for greater input in a healthcare setting to improve the health and wellbeing of mothers involved in recurrent care proceedings and to reduce child maltreatment.

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Substance Abuse | Physical Health | Family Justice System


Ruth Plackett

Senior Research fellow, Institute of Epidemiology & Health

Other research interests include

Health and Social CareÌý´¥ÌýDigital Health ´¥ÌýChildren and Young People

Alexandra Pitman

Clinical Associate Professor,ÌýDivision of PsychiatryÌý

I am interested in understanding risk factors for suicide attempt and in developing interventions to address them. I am currently working on the following areas:

  • Social and built environment influences on self-harm
  • Suicide attempt risk in vulnerable groups (people bereaved by suicide; people with cancer; LGBT youth; migrants; specific occupational groups; people who identify as lonely)
  • Suicide means restriction

Other research interests include

Suicide and Self-harm | Mood Disorders | Psychological InterventionsÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

George PloubidisÌý

Professor of Population Health and Statistics,ÌýCentre for Longitudinal Studies

George is aÌýmultidisciplinaryÌýquantitative social scientist and a longitudinal population surveys methodologist. His main research interests relate to socioeconomic and demographic determinants of health over the life course and the mechanisms that underlie generational differences in health and mortality. His methodological work in longitudinal surveys focusses on applications for handling missing data, causal inference and measurement error.

Other research interests include

Older Adult Mental Health | Physical Health | Wellbeing | Social Statistics

Lydia Poole

Research Fellow in Mixed Methods,ÌýInstitute of Health Informatics

Lydia 's research focuses on the psychobiology of chronic disease. She is particularly interested in how depression is linked to physical illness and the biobehavioural pathways through which depression can explain disease onset and progression. Her ESRC funded fellowship comprised a body of work exploring the similarities and differences in depression across different physical illnesses. Lydia has a growing number of first-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored five book chapters. She has participated in several international conferences hand has received travel awards to present her work.

Other research interests include

Mood DisordersÌý´¥ÌýPhysical Health | PsychosocialÌý| Wellbeing


Priya RajyaguruÌýÌý Ìý

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental Health | Cognition | Epidemiology | Global Mental Health | Mood Disorders | Psychosocial | Wellbeing

Jonathan Rogers

Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Jonathan Rogers is a researcher in the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Division of Psychiatry specialising in neuropsychiatric disorders, and particularly catatonia. His current research involves investigating the neurobiology of catatonia using epidemiological, neuroimmunological and neuroimaging techniques.ÌýHe is also interested in psychopharmacology and the psychiatry of COVID-19.Ìý

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Pharmacology

Alvin Richards-Belle

PhD Student,ÌýDivision of Psychology and Language Sciences

Other research interests include

Physical HealthÌý´¥ÌýPsychological Interventions

Jessica Satchell

Trial Manager / PhD Student,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Psychological Interventions | Older Adult Mental Health | Crime Victims

Natalie Shoham

Clinical Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

I am looking at how visual impairment and psychosis are associated, using large datasets, for my PhD.

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Physical Health

Francesca Solmi

Senior Research Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

My research broadly focuses on studying the risk factors for the development of eating disorders across the life-span.ÌýAs part of my Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship I am studying whether inflammation - conceptualisd as exposure to prenatal and childhood infections, high genetic risk, autoimmunity - increases a person's risk of developing eating disorders. To do this, I use large general population datasets, including both biological and environmental data, and causal inference methods.ÌýI am also interested in studying inequalities in access to services and evaluating the effectiveness of current treatments for eating disorders using electronic medical records.

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý| Eating Disorders

Andrew Sommerlad

Principal Research Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Dr Sommerlad uses multiple methodologies including observational research using longitudinal cohorts and routinely collected electronic health records, qualitative research, systematic review and meta-analysis to examine clinically relevant outcomes in dementia and cognition for older people.

Other research interests include

Dementia | Neuroscience ´¥ÌýOlder Adult Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýCognition

Ramya Srinivasan

Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

I am a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow and ST6 in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. I am interested in adolescent mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders and how childhood mental health is related to adult mental health. My PhD focusses on childhood irritability and adolescent depression.Ìý

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | PsychosocialÌý´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental Health

Jean Stafford

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry

My research is broadly focused on dementia and the mental health of older people. In my PhD, I investigated the incidence of very late-onset psychotic disorders in Swedish register, while during my postdoctoral fellowship I examined associations between psychiatric disorders and subsequent dementia.

Other research interests include

Serious Mental Illness | Older Adult Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýDementia

Thomas Steare

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Wellcome PhD Student in Mental Health Science,ÌýInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Other research interests include

Psychosocial ´¥ÌýSerious Mental Illness ´¥ÌýChildren and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýMental Health Services

Argyris Stringaris

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Professor Stringaris is the Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with the Division of Psychiatry and the Psychology and Language Sciences Department at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº.ÌýHe was until recently Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section of Clinical and Computational Psychiatry at NIMH/NIH in the USA and before that a Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. He trained at the Maudsley Hospital.

He is a Clinician Scientist working to understand mood and the mechanisms that lead toÌýdepression and severe irritability (emotion dysregulation). He is studying how negative mood states arise and are maintained in the brain. He and his team use a broad range of methodologies stretching from computational modelling to clinical observation and randomisedÌýcontrolled trials in pursuit of understanding about mood. His latest work is about mood changes in the absence of events (Passage of Time Dysphoria) and about why humans may seek negative emotional states (i.e. choose not to be happiness maximisers at least for discrete time periods). He is collaborating broadly across the natural sciences (with engineers, physicists and mathematicians) and the humanities (historians and philosophers of emotions).ÌýClinically, he is treating young people with mental illness, particularly those with severe anxiety and depression.

Other research interests include

Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý´¥ÌýMood DisordersÌý´¥ÌýNeuroscience ´¥ÌýPharmacology

Vaso Totsika

Associate Professor in Intellectual Developmental Disability,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

My research often tries to describe complex developmental processes by drawing on population-based and/or longitudinal data. I am also interested in understanding how to better support people with intellectual disability, their families and carers through intervention evaluation.

Other research interests include

Psychological Interventions | Children and Young People's Mental HealthÌý| Intellectual Disability and Autism

Hara Trouli

Programme Lead Performing Arts Medicine,ÌýDivision of Surgery & Interventional Science

Other research interests include

Physical Health | PsychosocialÌý| Substance AbuseÌý| WellbeingÌý

Phd Student, Division of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Cognition | Mood Disorders Ìý| Neuroscience | psychiatric genetics

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PhD student, Division of PsychiatryÌýÌý Ìý

Other research interests include

Cognition | Dementia | Psychological InterventionsÌý| Health and Social CareÌý

Lucy Webster

Research Associate,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Dementia | Older Adult Mental Health | Psychological Interventions ´¥ÌýCognition

Liam Wright

Research Fellow in Epidemiology/Statistics,ÌýInstitute of Epidemiology and Health

I am a Research Fellow in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº. My work uses genetically informed designs to explore social inequalities in health and change in inequalities across time. My PhD research was on the association between youth unemployment and mental health later in life (so called scarring effects).

Other research interests include

Mood Disorders | WellbeingÌý

Ruihan Wu

PhD Student,ÌýInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Other research interests include

Psychosocial | Neuroscience | CognitionÌý| Autism

Justin Christopher Yang

Research Fellow,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

Other research interests include

Substance Abuse | Serious Mental Illness | Mood Disorders | Pharmacology

Sedigheh Zabihi

Research Assistant,ÌýDivision of Psychiatry

I studies my MSc in Clinical Mental Health Sciences at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, Division of Psychiatry and I received my BSc in Clinical Psychology from University of Tehran

Other research interests include

Global Mental Health | Psychosocial | DementiaÌý´¥ÌýCognitionÌý

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