Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology
NamePositionTelephoneEmail
Professor S Zeki Head of Laboratory 02076 797316 zeki.pa@ucl.ac.uk
Researchers
NamePositionTelephoneEmail
Dr Stewart Shipp Senior Research Fellow
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
Bath Street, London EC1V 9EL		 02076 084004 s.shipp@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Oliver Hulme Research Fellow
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
Bath Street, London EC1V 9EL		 02076 084004 o.hulme@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Chi-Hua Chen Research Fellow 02076 792936 (UCL x32936) chi-hua.chen@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Marcus Pearce Research Fellow 02076 793141 (UCL x33141) marcus.pearce@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Tomohiro Ishizu Research Fellow tm.ishizu@gmail.com
Visiting researchers
NameEmail
Prof Manuel Martin-Loeches mmartinloesches@edu.ucm.es
Ms Fiametta Ghedini f.ghedini@sssup.it
Computing
NamePositionTelephoneEmail
Mr John Romaya Senior Programmer 02076 793905 (UCL x33905) j.romaya@ucl.ac.uk
Mr Colin Savalle Programmer 02076 086998 c.savalle@ucl.ac.uk
Mr Jonathan Stutters Systems Manager 02076 793905 (UCL x33905) j.stutters@ucl.ac.uk
Administration
NamePositionTelephoneEmail
Ms Shelley Tootell Research assistant UCL x37316 s.tootell@ucl.ac.uk
zeki.pa@ucl.ac.uk
Staff at the FIL (Functional Imaging Laboratory)
Functional Imaging Laboratory staff directory
Honorary Members of LON
NamePositionEmail
Dr Hideaki Kawabata Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Keio University, Japan kawabata@flet.keio.ac.jp
Dr Andreas Bartels Postdoc Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen and at the LON andreas.bartels@tuebingen…
Dr Konstantinos Moutoussis Department of the History of Science, Athens University konstantinos.moutoussis…
Ludovica Lumer Director of the Nina Lumer Gallery, Milan
Former Staff and Students of LON
NamePositionEmail
Dr Ulrich Kirk Post doc at Human Neuroimaging Lab, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. ulrichkirk@gmail.com
Dr Klaartje Heinen Postdoc Research Fellow kheinen@gmail.com
Dr Richard Lewis Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen richard.lewis@tuebingen…
Dr Matthew Self Physiological Laboratory, University of Austria m.self@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Taiji Takanashi Has returned to Japan t.takanashi@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Richard Perry Now works as a Specialist Registrar at the National Hospital for Neurology richardjperry@tiscali.co.uk
Dr Velia Cardin Former Wellcome Trust PhD student. Now at Royal Holloway College. v.cardin@ucl.ac.uk
Mr Barrie Roulston Former Wellcome Trust PhD student
Dr Tzu-Ching ("TC") Chiang Has returned to Taiwan t.chiang@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Edoardo Zamuner Lecturing at the University of Melbourne

Announcing a series of upcoming events by the Institute of Neuroesthetics

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Latest news

  • New vacancy: A postdoctoral position in the Laboratory of Neurobiology has become available. The deadline for applications is November 30th 2009. Further information is available on the vacancies page.
  • 25 November 2009: Semir Zeki will take part in a dialogue with the artist Anton Burdakov on the Forms of Space. Hosted by the Association of Neuroesthetics. Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstr. 56, 2nd Floor, Festsaal, 10117, Berlin.
  • 26 November 2009: Semir Zeki, neurobiologist and Professor of Neuroesthetics at University College London, discusses his work with Martin Ingvar, Head of the Osher Centre for Integrative Medicine and of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and with internationally renowned novelist Dame Antonia Byatt, whose latest work, The Children‘s Book, is on the shortlist for the 2009 ManBooker Prize. This discussion takes place in The Residence of the Ambassador of Sweden, 27 Portland Place, London W1 1QA (entrance in New Cavendish Street). 7pm.
  • 5 December 2009: Semir Zeki will give the closing lecture, entitled "La neurobiologie de l'amour et de la haine", at the December 2009 meeting of the French Congress of Psychiatry, in Nice Acropolis. 11:30-12:30 at the Amphitheatre Athena. The lecture will be delivered in French.
  • 11 December 2009: Semir Zeki will give a talk entitled 'The elusive search for the unified consciousness'. A discussion will follow, coordinated by Stella Vosniadou with discussants Irini Skallora, Philip Kargopoulos and Konstantinos Moutoussis. The event will take place at 18:00 in the New Amphitheatre, Central Building, Panepistimiou 30, Athens. Sponsored by the University of Athens, the Greek Society for Neuroscience and Gutenburg Publications.
  • 16 January 2010: The annual meeting in neuroesthetics will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum, California, on the topic of Time and Timing. Details to be announced soon.
  • 4 February 2010: Improvisation, Creativity and Music: Gilad Atzmon, jazz musician, in dialogue with Jessica Grahn and Stefan Koelsch. Visit the Institute of Neuroesthetics website for more details.
  • 18-22 May 2010: Semir Zeki will give a talk entitled A neurobiological examination of the art of Francis Bacon at the Cognitive VII meeting in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Now available: 'Maravillas y miserias del cerebro humano' by Semir Zeki (published by Wiley-Blackwell). See the cover.
  • Now available: 'Splendours and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity and the Quest for Human Happiness' by Semir Zeki (published by Blackwell). Soon to be published in Greek, Italian, Polish and German. See the cover.