Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2015 - Present: Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK
2011 - 2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2009 - 2010: Research Fellow, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
2008 - 2010: Research Fellow, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, California
EDUCATION
2004 - 2008
Ph.D. Student/Junior Researcher
F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Advisor: Ole Jensen
Dissertation: The Influence of Ongoing Oscillatory Brain Activity on Evoked Responses and Behavior
2001 - 2003
Masters
Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada
Advisor: Terence W. Picton
Master’s Thesis: The Spectral Dynamics of EEG During Target Detection
GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2022
- Sensitivity and Specificity of Alpha in predicting post-surgical pain. Empower Therapeutics (£65,000). Principle Investigator
- Military Traumatic Brain Injury Biomarker Study, a prospective cohort biomarker study of military and civilian participants with mTBI. Ministry of Defence (£2 500000). Co-Investigator (EEG stream lead)
2018
- The effects of individual differences in bilingual experience on cognitive control networks. The Economic and Social Research Council (£430 000). Co-Investigator
- Would cerebral Peak Alpha Frequency (PAF) indicate individual liklihood of developing Chronic Post-Thoracotomy Pain (CPTP):TOPIC-EEG study? (£10 000)
- Cognitive predictors of delirium. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) (£75 000)
2016
- Identification of a brain network subserving predisposition to pain perception. The Royal Society - CNR International Exchanges Award (£12 000).
2013
- Elucidating the mechanisms of DBS. Hersenstichting Nederland ($35 000). In collaboration with Damiaan Denys, University of Amsterdam.
- Cognitive interactions modulating pain. IASP Collaborative Research Grant ($15 000). In collaboration with David Seminowicz, University of Maryland
2010
- Veni Fellowship Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (€250 000)
2008
- Rubicon Fellowship Netherlands Organisation for scientific Research (NWO) (€96 000)