CRUSE LAB
PEOPLE
Damian Cruse
Principal Investigator
Damian grew up in Aberystwyth, Wales, and studied his undergraduate degree in Applied Psychology at Cardiff University from 2002-2006. In 2009 he completed his PhD at Cardiff University under the supervision of Prof. Ed Wilding. From 2009 to 2015, Damian was a post-doctoral fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (Cambridge, UK) and a research scientist at The Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario (Canada) under the supervision of Prof. Adrian M. Owen. In September 2015, Damian began as a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Birmingham, and in 2018 was promoted to Senior Lecturer.
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Holly Gedling
PhD Student
Holly studied her undergraduate MSci in Natural Sciences followed by an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, both at the University of Nottingham. For her current PhD project, she is exploring neural and physiological measures of the conscious experience, for example heart rate changes associated with speech processing. Her PhD project is funded by the BBSRC Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) and is co-supervised by Prof Howard Bowman.
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Alumni
Leah Banellis - PhD
Steve Beukema - MSc
Sara Calzolari - MSc Erasmus+ internship
Amy Chinner - MRes
Raechelle M Gibson - PhD
Julia Nantes - BSc
Alice O'Donnell - MBChB
Ruth Pauli - Research Associate
Mohammed Rupawala - PhD
Rodika Sokoliuk - Post-doctoral Fellow
Gurneet Sur - Research Associate
Consuelo Vidal Gran - PhD