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Impact and Collaborations
Professor Volker Thoma
An ongoing project is on the use of non-invasive brain stimulation (TCS) in healthy adults and disordered gambling to improve judgment and decision-making (with Dr Davide Rivolta, Bari, and Professor Michael Nitsche, Dortmund). Professor Thoma is also a co-investigator (PI: Prof Peter Ayton, City, University of London) in a research project on decision-making in pension trustees, funded by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). The aim of this study is to elicit (via interviews, ethnographic observations, surveys, and experiments) the potential pitfalls and cognitive biases that trustees encounter in their role, which has not been studied before; a review paper was published in "Review of Behavioural Finance".
Professor Thoma has research collaborations with various institutions and organisations:
- City, University of London / Leeds University Business School: Judgment and decision-making in pension trustees (Professor Peter Ayton)
- University of Bonn (Judgment performance in schizotypy; Prof Ulrich Ettinger)
- BBC (Research collaboration in Agile software development)
- National Problem Gambling Clinic (London, Dr Etta Bowden Jones) and Technical University Dortmund (Prof M. Nitsche) on brain stimulation intervention in disordered gambling
- Goldsmiths (perceptual load and face recognition, Prof Jan de Fockert)
- University of Bari (Prof D. Rivolta on brain stimulation effects of object and face perception)
- University of Chester (Dr Paul Rodway, heuristic processing in consumer choice)
Dr Mary-Jane Budd
Dr Budd has been a Member of the Forum for Research in Literacy and Language (FRILL) for eight years which meets three times a year and incorporates experts from institutions such as the Institute of Education (Reading and UCL), Aston University and the University of York. She is a regular contributor to research group meetings and the annual two-day conference in June.
Research collaborations include:
- London South Bank University (vaping studies using EEG, Prof Lynne Dawkins)
- University of Essex (Language production studies, Prof Rick Hanley)
- University of Essex (Prof Silke Paulmann) and University of Potsdam (Prof Harald Clahsen) morphological processing in adults and children using EEG
Dr Angela Gosling
Dr Gosling is one of the Directors of Face Blind UK, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company set up in 2014. It is run by and for people whose lives are impacted by prosopagnosia. It aims: 'to work across the UK to raise awareness, recognition and understanding of face blindness (prosopagnosia), and to provide services to people who have face blindness, including information, networking and support.' Dr Gosling's neuro-cognitive work on face recognition informs her work with FBUK.
Dr Matteo Martini
Dr Martini's most recent collaborations are the following:
- Instituted Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) and Event-Lab, Universitat de Barcelona (Prof Mavi Sanchez-Vives)
- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Prof Pierre Bourdin Kreitz)
- Max Planck Institute (Dr Birgit Nierula)
- Northeastern University (Prof Arthur Kramer)
- University College London (Dr Ilias Tachtsidis)
- University of East London (ACI School, Dr Leon Barker)
Dr Mark Harwood
Research collaborations include:
- Prof Richard Krauzlis, NIH, Chief of Eye Movements & Visual Selection at the NIH Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research.
- Prof Robert McPeek, SUNY Optometry New York, on primate physiology experiments.
- Dr Melissa Nirenberg, Weill-Cornell Medical School; Lead Clinician on interdisciplinary NSF (Parkinson's Disease clinical application).
- Prof Laurent Madelain, University of Lille
Professor Cynthia Fu
Director of the Affective Clinical Neuroscience Unit, Cynthia is the PI of a Rosetrees Trust funded clinical trial investigating the acceptability and effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as a potential community-based treatment for major depression.
Research collaborations include:
- Professor Allan Young, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, and Dr Sergi Costafreda, Department of Psychiatry, University College London (Rosetrees Trust trial)
- Professor Christos Davatzikos, Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, University of Pennsylvania
- Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium
- Dr Saeed Sharif, School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London
Dr Jérémy E. Lemoine
Research collaborations include:
- Prof Christine Roland-Lévy, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
- Prof Rolf van Dick, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- Prof Ben Voyer, ESCP Europe, UK
- Dr Niklas K. Steffens, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
- Prof S. Alexander Haslam, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
- Pro Rudolf Kerschreiter, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Dr Elley Wakui
Research collaborations include:
- Prof Jules Davidoff (Goldsmiths, University of London), Dr Serge Caparos (Universite Paris-8), Dimitris Mylonas (UCL) influence of language on colour perception.
Dr Antonio R. Fidalgo
Research collaborations include:
- Prof Katsumi Watabane (Waseda University, Tokyo) on decision-making and cross-cultural studies
- Dr Dagmara Dimitriou (UCL) on sleep and pain management in chronic pain patients.
- Dr Jermaine Ravalier (Bath Spa University) on the impact of zero-hour contracts on wellbeing