Lab Members


















Gabriele Lignani, PhD
Principal Investigator
Senior Research Fellow - Epilepsy Research UK
MRC New Investigator

Marie-Curie Fellow, UCL
Research Associate, UCL
Postdoc, IIT (Italy)
PhD in Experimental Neuroscience, University of Genoa (Italy)
MSc in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Genoa (Italy)
BSc in Medical Biotechnology, University of Milan (Italy)

Jenna Carpenter
Research Associate

Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD program in Neuroscience at UCL
BSc in Biochemistry, University of Sheffield
Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship, Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience

Amanda Almacellas Barbanoj
Research Associate
co-supervised by Dr V. Magloire and Prof D. Kullmann

PhD at Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova (Italy)
MSc in Cognitive Neurosciences, Radboud University, Donders Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
BSc in Biomedical Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Jen Yin Goh
Research Associate

Joint PhD in Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery at University of Nottingham, UK and Monash University, Australia
BSc (Hons) Pharmacology, University of Manchester, UK

Nathanael O'Neill
Research Associate

PhD in Clinical Brain Science at University of Edinburgh, UK
BMedSc (Hons) Medical Science, University of Birmingham, UK

Yichen Qiu
PhD student -MRC UCL-Birbeck DTP
co-supervised by Prof. D. Kullmann

Research assistant, UCL
MRes in Molecular and Cellular Bioscience, Imperial College London
BSc Biochemistry, Imperial College London

Steffan Jones

PhD student -MRC UCL-Birbeck DTP
co-supervised by Prof. D. Kullmann


Clara Zourray

PhD student - Sir Jules Thorn Trust PhD Scholarship
co-supervised by Prof. S. Schorge and Prof. M. Kurian

Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences, UCL / Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris)
BSc Neuroscience, King's College London


Thomas J. Turner
PhD student -MRC UCL-Birbeck DTP
co-supervised by Prof. D. Kullmann
4-years MSci Pharmacology, UCL

Francisco Martins De Carvalho Moreira
Research Assistant

Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences, UCL
BSc Biomedical Science, King's College London

Irina Zalivina

Research Assistant
PhD, King's College London
Research Assistant, King's College London
Research Assistant, Imperial College
MSc Structural Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College
BSc Agricultural Technology, Novgorod University

Olivia Attrebi

Research Assistant. In collaboration with Professor Adrian Isaacs, UCL DRI
BSc Neuroscience at the University of Leeds

Christos Chimonides
MSc student, Clinical Neuroscience
Degree of Medicinne and Surgery, Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy

Tania Savant
MSc student, Clinical Neuroscience
BSc Neuroscience, University of St Andrews

Anna Pujol Castiblanque
MSc student, Brain and Mind Sciences
BSc Biotechnology (Molecular Biotechnology), Universitat de Barcelonna
Former Members
Eleonora Lugara', PhD Student
Albert Snowball, Postdoc
Jana Heneine, MSc Student
Ylenia Mastrodicasa, Visiting Student
Margareta Rybarikova, Visiting Student
Meghna Nair, iBSc in Physiology and Pharmacology
James Scott-Solache, MSc student
Elizabeth Brockman, MSc student
Catherine Heffner, MRC DTP PhD rotation student
Giulia Manferrari, MRC DTP PhD rotation student
Marta Perez Gonzalez, Postdoc
Benito Maffei, Research Assistant
Ines Zouhair, MSc student