Team
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Varun Warrier
Principal Investigator
Varun is an Assistant Professor of Neurodevelopment at the University of Cambridge.
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Eva-Maria Stauffer
PhD candidate
Co-supervised with Ed Bullmore and Richard Bethlehem
Eva works on understanding how genetic variants shape brain structure and function and their links to mental health.
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Yuanjun Gu
PhD candidate
Co-supervised with Simon Baron-Cohen
Yuanjun works on understanding sex-differences in neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental conditions using genetics. She completed an MPhil in Medical Genetics from Cambridge.
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Yira-Xinhe Zhang
PhD candidate
Yira works on understanding how environmental factors are linked to mental health and neurodevelopment. She completed a BSc in Psychology from Bath.
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Niran Okewole
PhD candidate
Niran is a clinical psychiatrist. He works on the impact of genetic variants on neurodevelopmental conditions and co-occurring disorders. -
Vincent-Raphael Bourque
Visiting researcher
Raphael is training in clinical Psychiatry in Montreal, Canada. For his PhD, he works on the genetic and developmental predictors of cognitive ability and adaptive functioning in children with autism. -
Dylan McDermott
Undergraduate researcher
Dylan is working on understanding how genetics of psychiatric conditions impact brain structure.
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Qianshu Ma
Visiting researcher
Qianshu is training in clinical psychiatry at West China Hospital. For her MD, she works on understanding the combined impact of genetic variants and environmental factors on mental health outcomes. She holds a BMed at West China School of Clinical Medicine.
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Clara Regeis
MPhil candidate
Clara investigates the genetics of brain changes across the lifespan using longitudinal brain imaging data. She have experience working on fMRI network analysis in autism. Out of research, she enjoys dancing salsa, bouldering and pilates.
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Ed He
Undergraduate researcher
Ed is an undergraduate student in Natural Sciences at Christ's College Cambridge. He work at the interface between functional neuroimaging and population genetics, with focus on linking imaging-derived phenotypes with neuropsychiatric disorders. Out of research he runs a blog on popular science and philosophy of science.