People

Our talented scientists at the Neuroscience Institute are united under one goal – to unlock the mysteries of the nervous system and halt, prevent or reverse neurological conditions that can have debilitating effects on patients and their families. Get in touch to collaborate or find out more.

Co-directors

Professor Oliver Bandmann

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

Zebrafish models of Parkinson’s Disease and related disorders

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

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Professor Walter Marcotti

Professor of Sensory Neuroscience
School of Biosciences

Development, Regeneration and Neurophysiology

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

Translational neuroscience leads

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Professor Heather Mortiboys

Professor of Cellular Neuroscience and Metabolism
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
h.mortiboys@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2259

Professor Robert Perneczky

Chair in Translational Dementia Research
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
r.perneczky@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2295

Translational neuroscience

Zebrafish models of Parkinson’s Disease and related disorders

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

Photo of Ivana Barbaric, Senior Lecturer in Stem Cell Biology

Professor Ivana Barbaric

Professor of Stem Cell Biology
School of Biosciences

Development, Regeneration and Neurophysiology

i.barbaric@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3645

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Dr Daniel Blackburn

Senior Lecturer
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
d.blackburn@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9101

Dr Dan Bose

Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow/Lecturer
School of Biosciences

Molecular and Cellular Biology

d.bose@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2838

Professor Claire Brockett

Professor of Biomechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
c.brockett@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6073

Prof. Beining Chen

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

Computer aided molecular design and combinatorial chemistry to facilitate drug design and molecular recognition studies.

b.chen@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 9467

Dr Mark Collins

Senior Lecturer in Biological Mass Spectrometry
School of Biosciences

Deputy Director of the Mass Spectrometry Centre
Expertise: Proteomics
Molecular and Cellular Biology

mark.collins@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2303

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Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock

NIHR Clinical Lecturer
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
j.cooper-knock@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2273

Suman De

Research Fellow
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
s.de@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 21 59107

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Dr Mark Dunning

Bioinformatics Core Director
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
m.j.dunning@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Kurt De Vos

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
k.de_vos@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2241

Professor Mark Dickman

Deputy Faculty Director of Research & Innovation - Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
m.dickman@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 7541

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Dr Andrew Grierson

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

Zebrafish models of neurodegeneration

a.j.grierson@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2277

Professor Guillaume Hautbergue

Professor of Translational RNA Biology
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
g.hautbergue@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2252

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Dr Robin Highley

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neuropathology
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
robin.highley@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2244

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Dr Esther Hobson

Senior Lecturer in neurology, University of Sheffield
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
e.hobson@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Izzy Jayasinghe

Senior Lecturer
School of Biosciences

Molecular and Cellular Biology

i.jayasinghe@sheffield.ac.uk

Chair in Molecular Medicine, Sherif El-Khamisy

Professor Sherif El-Khamisy

Chair in Molecular Medicine
School of Biosciences

Molecular and Cellular Biology

S.El-Khamisy@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2791

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Professor Janine Kirby

Professor in Neurogenetics
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
j.kirby@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2247

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Dr Matthew Livesey

Research Fellow
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
M.R.Livesey@Sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2233

Dr Jennifer MacRitchie

Senior Research Fellow
Department of Music
j.macritchie@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Arshad Majid

Head of Department
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
arshad.majid@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2290

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Dr Carl Marincowitz

Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
c.marincowitz@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Chris McDermott

Professor of Translational Neurology
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
c.j.mcdermott@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2295

Dr Alisdair McNeill

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neurogenetics
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
a.mcneill@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2267

Dr Richard Mead

Senior Lecturer in Translational Neuroscience
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
r.j.mead@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2256

Professor Ivan Minev

Professor of Intelligent Healthcare Technologies
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
i.minev@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5614

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Professor Heather Mortiboys

Professor of Cellular Neuroscience and Metabolism
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
h.mortiboys@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2259

Professor Robert Perneczky

Chair in Translational Dementia Research
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
r.perneczky@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2295

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Professor Markus Reuber

Professor of Clinical Neurology
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
m.reuber@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 271 8688

Professor Ipsita Roy

Professor of Biomaterials
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Expert in microbial biotechnology, natural biomaterials and their biomedical applications.

i.roy@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5962

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Dr Dinesh Selvarajah

Senior Clinical Lecturer
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
d.selvarajah@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9222

Professor Dame Pamela J Shaw

Professor of Neurology and Director of the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN)
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
pamela.shaw@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2295

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Dr Tatyana Shelkovnikova

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (Senior Research Fellow)
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
t.shelkovnikova@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 22 22245

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Dr Julie Simpson

Senior Lecturer in Translational Neuropathology
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
julie.simpson@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2242

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Dr Rosie Staniforth

Lecturer
School of Biosciences

Development, Regeneration and Neurophysiology

r.a.staniforth@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2761

Professor Li Su

Professor of Neuroimaging
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
l.su@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 21 59108

Dr Anestis Tsakiridis

Group Leader & Lecturer
School of Biosciences

Development, Regeneration and Neurophysiology

a.tsakiridis@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2367

Dr Alison Twelvetrees

Sir Henry Dale Fellow
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
a.twelvetrees@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9105

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Dr Ryan West

Research Fellow
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
r.j.west@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2239

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Professor Stephen B Wharton

Professor and Honorary Consultant in Neuropathology
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
s.wharton@sheffield.ac.uk

Professor Jim Wild

Professor of Magnetic Resonance Physics, Executive Director of Insigneo Institute for in-silico Medicine
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
j.m.wild@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9141

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Professor Stuart Wilson

Roper Chair in Genetics
School of Biosciences

Molecular and Cellular Biology

stuart.wilson@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2849

Cognitive and mental health leads

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Dr Myles Jones

Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
M.Jones@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6551

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Professor Markus Reuber

Professor of Clinical Neurology
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
m.reuber@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 271 8688

Cognitive and mental health

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Dr Asha Akram

Senior University Teacher (Lecturer Teaching & Scholarship)
Department of Psychology
a.akram@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6569

Dr Paul Armitage

Senior Technical Specialist (MRI)
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health

Quantitative MRI:
Diffusion, Perfusion, Permeability, Relaxometry.
Image Processing:
Registration, Segmentation.
Applications:
Epilepsy, Stroke, Dementia, Ataxia, Tumours, Fetal.

p.armitage@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9149

Dr Mahnaz Arvaneh

Senior Lecturer
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
m.arvaneh@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5649

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Dr Claudia von Bastian

Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
C.C.vonBastian@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6560

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Dr Jason Berwick

Reader in Neurophysiology
Department of Psychology
j.berwick@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6574

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Professor Daniel Coca

Honorary Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
d.coca@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Enrico Dall'Ara

Senior Lecturer
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
e.dallara@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6175

Dr Tom Farrow

Senior Lecturer in Neuroimaging
Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Population Health
t.f.farrow@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 271 3128

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Dr Alexander Fletcher

Senior Lecturer
School of Mathematics and Statistics

Mathematical biology, morphogenesis, tissue dynamics

A.G.Fletcher@shef.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3846

Dr Megan Freeth

Senior Lecturer and Departmental Director of Research and Innovation
Department of Psychology
m.freeth@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6652

Professor Paul Griffiths

Professor of Radiology
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health

Paediatric neuroimaging. Neonatal neuroimaging. Fetal neuroimaging. Developmental brain abnormalities. Acquired brain pathology in the fetus and neonate. Neurological rare diseases

p.griffiths@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9604