Team Members
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.
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Marianna Sidiropoulou
MSci student
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'.
Arjan Dhesi
Research assistant
Arjan holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh and a BEng in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield. He's enthusiastic to explore the relationship between brain activity and behaviour using publicly available datasets and contributes to the development of novel analytical tools and experimental setups.
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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.
This Could Be You
Open Positions
We are looking for highly motivated PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers & lab staff.
Szymon Lic
MSci student
Szymon is interested applying data science approaches and programming to neuroscience data. He's joined the lab as a Msci Neuroscience student in autumn 2024.
His project focuses on classification of spikes in extracellular recordings.
Alumni
Isobel Parkes
Msci Neuroscience programme at UCL
(2023 - 2024)
Currently part-time RA in the lab;
incoming PhD student (Sussex University 2025)
Sally Zhang
Msci Neuroscience programme at UCL
(2023 - 2024)
Currently part-time RA at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC)