Principal Investigator

Varun is an Assistant Professor of Neurodevelopment at the University of Cambridge.

Postdoctoral research associate

Jessie is a clinical psychiatrist working on understanding heterogeneity in autism, with a focus on age at autism diagnosis, and combining information across ancestries.

Postdoctoral research associate

Lucas is working on understanding the genetic links between autism, developmental delays, and rare neurodevelopmental disorders.

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.

PhD candidate

Yira works on understanding how environmental factors are linked to mental health and neurodevelopment. She completed a BSc in Psychology from Bath.

PhD candidate

Niran is a clinical psychiatrist. He works on the impact of genetic variants on neurodevelopmental conditions and co-occurring disorders.

PhD candidate

Ed is a PhD candidate. He works 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.

PhD candidate

Amir has a background in imaging transcriptomics of psychiatric disorders. He uses machine learning to investigate the genetic (polygenic risk scores) and neuroimaging (tau propagation, inflammation, synaptic density, and cellular death) hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases. Amir is a visitor and is supervised by Tim Rittman.

PhD candidate

I’m Constantino, I am a PhD candidate. My background is in pharmacology (BSc) and genomics (MPhil). I am interested in the generation of novel drug-target identification strategies for neuropsychiatric disorders by integrating neuroimaging along with multiple layers of -omics level data.

PhD Candidate

Rana is working on how rare and common genetic variants are linked to neurodevelopmental features from childhood to adulthood, using data from British birth cohorts and other cohorts.

MPhil candidate

Jackson investigates whether early- and late-onset depression and other related conditions have distinct genetic influences.

Undergraduate researcher

Yiwei is a Natural Sciences undergraduate at Cambridge. He is working on identifying factors that contribute to the emergence of early signs of autism, age at autism diagnosis, and the time taken from the emergence of autism to diagnosis.

Abby is a Research Assistant working on understanding sex differences in autistic traits in the general population. I completed my BA in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences from Cambridge and my MSc in Clinical Mental Health from UCL. 

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.

Visiting researcher

Kuldeep is a visiting researcher from CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal. He is working on integrating genetics with neuroimaging to understand, particularly, the role of CNVs in brain structure.