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
Total Funding Award to Date: £24 million ~£5 million as Principal Investigator.
1. Assessment of Chronic Opioid Risk using Neurobiology (ACORN) - Wellcome Leap
Role: Chief Investigator
Dates: 4 May 2024 → 4 May 2027
2. Resilience Breakthroughs in Older People Undergoing Cancer Procedures (REBOUND consortium) - Wellcome Leap
Role: Principal Investigator of the ‘Neurocognition’ work-stream
Dates: 7 September 2023 → 6 September 2026
3. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Biomarker Study (mTBI-Predict consortium) - US Department of Defense
Role: Co-investigator, leading the EEG workstream
Dates: 30 May 2023 → 29 September 2028
4. Sensitivity and Specificity of Alpha in Predicting and Reducing Post-Surgical Pain - Empower Therapeutics (Industry Sponsorship)
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: 30 September 2022 → 31 August 2025
5. Brain and Blood Predictors of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury - UK Ministry of Defense
Role: Co-investigator, leading the EEG workstream
Dates: 1 December 2021 → 31 March 2024
6. The Effects of Individual Differences in Bilingual Experience on Cognitive Control Networks - Economic and Social Research Council
Role: Co-investigator
Dates: 1 November 2018 → 30 November 2022
7. Cognitive and Electrophysiological Predictors of Delirium - Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT)
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Dates: 5 March 2018 → 28 February 2021
8. Using Machine Learning to Classify Attention in Space Using Wearable EEG - Facebook (Industry Sponsorship)
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: 22 November 2018 → 30 June 2022
9. Using Cerebral Peak Alpha Frequency (PAF) as a Biomarker for Chronic Post-Thoracotomy Pain - Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre Seed Funding
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: 14 May 2018 → 31 December 2019
10. Identification of a Brain Network Sub-serving Predisposition to Pain Perception - The Royal Society CNR International Exchanges Award
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: 25 July 2016 → 24 July 2018