People

Our experts carry out research into many aspects of dementia, from developing new models of disease to new diagnostic testing and helping people live full lives.

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Flagship Institute Directors

Neuroscience Institute

Professor Oliver Bandmann

Professor of Movement Disorders Neurology
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health

Zebrafish models of Parkinson’s Disease and related disorders

Email: o.bandmann@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 2237

Professor Oliver Bandmann

Professor Walter Marcotti

Professor of Sensory Neuroscience
School of Biosciences

Auditory physiology and gene therapy

Email: w.marcotti@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 1098

Walter Marcotti

Healthy Lifespan Institute

Professor Ilaria Bellantuono

Professor of Musculoskeletal Ageing
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health

Email: i.bellantuono@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 215 9037

Professor Ilaria Bellantuono

Professor Alan Walker

Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology
Department of Sociological Studies

Ageing
Intellectual disability and ageing
Social empowerment in theory and practice
Political economy of social policy
Comparative social policy in Europe, China and East Asia

Email: a.c.walker@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6466

Alan Walker

Theme leads

Pre-clinical research

Dr Jason Berwick

Reader in Neurophysiology
Department of Psychology

Email: j.berwick@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6574

Clinical research

Dr Daniel Blackburn

Senior Lecturer
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health

Email: d.blackburn@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 215 9101

Dan Blackburn

Aging and multimorbidity

Dr Clare Howarth

Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology

Email: c.howarth@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 6511

Living with dementia

Outreach and the community

Dr Jon Dickson

Senior Clinical Lecturer
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Email: j.m.dickson@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 2081

Photo of John Dickson, Senior Clinical Lecturer

Engineering and robotics

Dr Alisdair McNeill

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neurogenetics
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health

Email: a.mcneill@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 222 2267

Alisdair McNeill portrait photo

Computer science

Professor Li Su

Professor of Neuroimaging
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health

Email: l.su@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 114 21 59108

Su Li