Team Members

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Sarah Ruediger, PhD

Group leader

Sarah received her PhD from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland. For her po

stdoctoral work, Sarah joined the lab of Dr Massimo Scanziani at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California San Diego and University of California San Francisco, USA.

Nils Nyberg

Postdoctoral researcher

Nils recently completed his PhD project at UCL, working with Prof Hugo Spiers and Dr Caswell Barry. Nils applies his expertise in electrophysiological, behavioural and computational techniques to delve into the neuronal underpinnings of sensory processing & behaviour.

Marianna Sidiropoulou

Research Assistant

Marianna is interested in strategies underlying visually guided behaviour. She is developing a novel paradigm to study goal-directed behaviour in freely moving mice and is an aspiring 'mouse whisperer'.

Ines Razafindrahaba

PhD student (joint with Aman Saleem)

Ines joined the lab in Autumn 2025 from the Francis Crick Institute, bringing a strong interest in the neural underpinnings of goal-directed and habitual behaviour.

Eleanor Benoit

PhD student

Ellie joined the lab in summer 2024 as part of the MRC DTP PhD programme. She focuses on visual processing and the circuit mechanisms underlying experience-dependent plasticity in the visual system using chronic Neuropixel recordings.