Welcome to the Barry Lab! Below you can find a brief introduction of all lab members and their contact details – feel free to get in touch over email or twitter! Scroll down to see pictures from our out-of-lab adventures. Overall lab contact details can be found here.
Professor Caswell Barry Principal Investigator Ex-electrophysiologist, discovering the computations embedded in the brain (and answering emails).
Dr Michael Bukwich Postdoc Experimentalist at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, joint supervised by Neil Burgess, studying the mechanistic basis of decision processes during navigation in 2D-VR.
Dr William De Cothi Postdoc Background in Mathematics. Interested in using machine learning and computational modelling to help understand the brain and behaviour.
Dr Thomas Jahans-Price Postdoc Electrophysiologist recording from high-density probes in freely moving mice, studying neuronal computations underlying spatial exploration and navigation.
Dr Zhi Liang Postdoc Daphne Jackson Fellow. Electrophysiologist interested in the role of the subiculum in spatial exploration and navigation.
Dr Sarah Shipley Postdoc Electrophysiologist interested in hippocampal replay and how it is affected in Alzheimer’s disease.
Marco Abrate PhD Student Researching the maturation of spatial neurons in developing rats using biologically-plausible recurrent neural networks. Jointly supervised by Prof. Tom Wills.
Lauren Bennett PhD Student Working across neuroscience and machine learning to understand how the brain builds spatial representations, using neural recordings and VR simulations.
Tom Childs PhD Student Background in molecular biology and Alzheimer’s research. Studies multisensory integration in the hippocampus using electrophysiology, VR, and computational modelling.
Arjan Dhesi PhD Student Background in computer engineering and AI. Interested in how the brain learns spatial understanding from vision during navigation, modelled with machine learning.
Joshua Hau PhD Student Ex-electrophysiologist interested in using reinforcement learning models to better understand representation learning and goal-directed behaviour.
Zoe Ruo-Yu Li PhD Student Edtech researcher at IOE, jointly supervised by Prof. Mutlu Cukurova. Uses EEG and multimodal analytics to study learning through instructional AI videos.
Daniel Liu PhD Student Computational neuroscientist building models of multi-sensory integration in the hippocampus, with an interest in Transformer architectures.
Masahiro Nakano PhD Student PhD student at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, jointly supervised by Claudia Clopath. Interested in how the hippocampus encodes and retrieves memory.
