Staff in the School of Psychological Sciences

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Head of School

• Dr Elisa Raffaella Ferrè

Academic Staff

• Dr Samara Banno, Daphne Jackson Fellow
  
• Professor Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Professor of Forensic Psychology and Public Policy
• Dr Beverley Burke, Daphne Jackson Fellow
• Professor Rick Cooper, Professor of Cognitive Science
• Professor Eddy J Davelaar, Professor of Psychology and Applied Neuroscience
• Dr Rashpal Dhensa-Kahlon, Lecturer
• Professor Iroise Dumontheil, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Professor Martin Eimer, Professor of Psychology
• Dr Joanna Farr, Lecturer
• Dr Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Head of School
• Professor Beth Grunfeld, Professor of Health Psychology
• Professor Ulrike Hahn, Professor of Psychology
• Professor Mark Johnson, Professor of Psychology
• Professor Emily Jones, Professor of Translational Neurodevelopment
• Professor Natasha Kirkham, Professor of Developmental Psychology
• Ana da Cunha Lewin, Senior Lecturer
• Professor Matthew Longo, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Dr Michael Mallaghan, Senior Associate Lecturer
• Professor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology
• Dr Emma Meaburn, Reader in Human Genetics
• Professor Almuth McDowall, Professor of Organizational Psychology
• Professor Anne Miles, Professor of Health Psychology
• Dr Ori Ossmy, Lecturer
• Dr Halley Pontes, Lecturer
• Professor Clare Press, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Dr Alex Shepherd, Reader in Psychology
• Professor Jonathan A Smith, Professor of Psychology
• Dr Marie L Smith, Reader in Cognitive Psychology
• Professor Fiona Tasker, Professor of Psychology
• Professor Michael Thomas, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Dr Adam Tierney, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience
• Dr Daniel Yon, Lecturer

Administrative Staff

• Sarela Castro Muniz, CBCD Administrator
• Berta Hortigüela-Fernández, CBCD Administration Team Leader
• Leslie Tucker, CBCD Centre Coordinator
• Winnie Yeh, BUCNI Administrator

IT Support StafF

• Mahen Padayachee, Computer Assistant
• Avi Reisman, IT Manager
• Ruben Zamora, Software and Web Developer

Laboratory Staff

• Dr Rebecca Nako, Laboratory Manager
• Dr Paola Pinti, Senior Research Laboratory Developer (CAVE)

Learning Support Staff

• Dr Tahereh Laleh Ansari, Learning Development Tutor
• Dr Claire Santorelli, Psychology Study Skills Coordinator

Research Staff

• Dr Jannath Begum-Ali, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Chiara Bulgarelli, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Teresa Del Bianco, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Gordon Dodwell, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Georgina Donati, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Tommaso Ghilardi, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Louisa Gossé, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Anna Gui, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Rianne Haartsen, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Rebecca Holman, Research Assistant
• Dr Ammar Jalalimanesh, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Matan Mazor, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Victoria Mousley, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Isabella Nizza, Researcher
• Ottavia Ollari, Research Assistant
• Francesca Penza, Research Assistant
• Dr Hannah Pickard, Postdoctoral Research Assistant
• Maheen Siddiqui, Research Fellow
• Dr Christina Soderberg, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Rachel Starr, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Ashley Symons, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Chloe Taylor Researcher
• Elena Throm, ISSF Researcher
• Emma Ward, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Dr Alon Zivony, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Experienced Researcher

Visiting Staff

• Professor Naz Derakhshan, Honorary Research Fellow
• Professor Fred Dick, Visiting Professor
• Professor Gillian Forrester, Honorary Research Fellow
• Professor Robert Leech, Visiting Professor
• Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Honorary Research Fellow
• Roisin Perry, Associate Research Fellow
• Maria Pitharouli, Associate Research Fellow
• Professor Angelica Ronald, Visiting Professor
• Dr Ilias Tachtsidis, Honorary Research Fellow

Emeritus Staff

• Dr Paul Barber, Emeritus Reader in Psychology
  
• Professor Jacqueline Barnes: Emerita Professor of Psychology. Professor Barnes has devoted her life to improving developmental outcomes for children from deprived or challenging backgrounds. Her research has focused on environmental and community influences on parenting and child development, which has been immensely influential in forming policy in the UK and beyond. Her research has also focussed on how various social, physical and psychological problems affect parenting such as homelessness, breast cancer, artificial insemination and eating disorders. View Professor Jacqueline Barnes’ publications on BiRon.
• Dr Virginia Eatough, Emerita Reader in Psychology
• Professor Edward (Ted) Melhuish: Emeritus Professor of Human Development. Professor Melhuish studies social and communicative development from birth to adulthood, including the effect of environmental factors. He is interested in early education and care, parenting, child poverty and disadvantage, and child development and social policy. He has devoted much of his life to theoretically driven research to produce improvements in development and well-being in areas such as the development of pre-term babies, children of psychiatrically disturbed parents, social, linguistic and cognitive development, emergent literacy, and early childhood education and care and the evaluation of policy initiatives. View Professor Edward Melhuish's publications on BiRon.
• Professor Mike Oaksford: Emeritus Professor of Psychology. In 2005, Professor Oaksford moved to Birkbeck as Professor of Psychology and Head of Department. He stepped down as Head of Department in 2021. His research concerns how people reason and construct arguments in discourse. This research involves experimental work and modelling the resulting inferential behaviour. 
• Professor Anne Richards, Emerita Professor of Psychology