Education

• Degree:PhD
• Primary supervisor:Adam Barrett
• Co-supervisors:Dominique Makowski, Anil Seth
• Project (working title):Complexity and Cognitive Flexibility in Altered States and Non-Human Bio-Collectives

• Rotation 1 (Supervisor):Luc Berthouze (Complex Systems)
  Project:Exploring Patterns in Embryonic Movement (computational approach)
  Skills:Exploratory data analysis & visualisation, change point detection, power analysis, signal processing, wavelets, phase-plane analysis, time series classification
  Outcome:Report; continued collaboration with Alonso Lab developing a pipeline for Drosophila melanogaster movement data analysis
• Rotation 2 (Supervisor):Dominique Makowski (Reality Bending Lab)
  Project:Behavioural and Neural Correlates of Visual Illusions
  Skills:jsPsych, neuropsychological approaches, advanced statistical analysis of behavioural data, EEG preprocessing & analysis, GitHub
  Outcome:Report; continued collaboration; abstract accepted as a talk at ASSC27
• Rotation 3 (Supervisors):Adam Barrett & Anil Seth (SSCS)
  Project:Dynamics of the Dying Brain
  Skills:EEG preprocessing & analysis (Python / MNE-Python), GitHub, complexity science
  Outcome:Continued collaboration; invited talk at Models of Consciousness 5 / MPE3 on links to minimal phenomenal experience

• Supervisor:Claudio Alonso (Developmental Neurobiology)
• Research project: Investigated interplay of neural activity and gene expression in the developing fruit fly using thermogenetics and semi-quantitative PCR. Results indicated that increased pan-neuronal activity during a critical late embryogenesis period down-regulates the Hox gene Ultrabithorax.

• Supervisor:Shafaq Sikandar (William Harvey Research Institute)
• Research project: Investigated the pronociceptive role of neutrophils in a mouse model of chronic pain using hyperalgesic priming and neutrophil depletion (monoclonal antibody). Results implicated neutrophils in prolonged ipsilateral and contralateral mechanical hypersensitivity.