Davinia Fernández-Espejo, Principal Investigator

I grew up in Avilés, a small town in Asturias (Spain). After my BSc in Speech Therapy and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology (University of Oviedo), I moved to Barcelona to complete an MSc in Neurosciences and PhD in Biomedicine under the supervision of Prof Carme Junque (University of Barcelona, in collaboration with University of Cambridge).  I then joined the University of Western Ontario (Canada) as a post-doctoral fellow in Prof Adrian Owen's lab, and subsequently became a senior research scientist at the Brain and Mind Institute. In September 2015, I joined the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham (UK) as an Associate Professor. In 2018 I was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2025 I became full Professor of Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience. 

d.fernandez-espejo@bham.ac.uk

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Daniel Torbett-Schofield, PhD Student

Daniel is investigating behavioural and neural effects of transcranial focused ultrasound of individual thalamic nuclei. Funded by MRC.

dxt461@student.bham.ac.uk 

Gugan Sangha, PhD Student

Gugan's PhD is embedded within the RAINDROP study and funded by HCA Healthcare. Her PhD project explores whether transcranial direct current stimulation can affect brain activity and improve responsiveness in patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness.

gxs631@student.bham.ac.uk 

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Chandrasekar Rathinam, PhD Student

Chandrasekar is a Consultant Therapist (Neurorehabilitation) at Birmingham Children's Hospital. As part of his PhD project (FatigueBrain), he will develop and test an intervention for fatigue in children and young people with acquired brain injury. Funded by Wellcome. 

cxr412@student.bham.ac.uk 

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Connor Watkin, ClinPsyD trainee

Connor's research project as part of his Clinical Psychology Doctorate (ClinPsyD) explores sex differences in cognitive and mental health sequelae after traumatic brain injury during childhood. 

cjw301@student.bham.ac.uk 

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Georgia Wang, ClinPsyD trainee

Georgia's research project as part of his Clinical Psychology Doctorate (ClinPsyD) explores the interplay between Head Injury, Sleep and Mental Health in Adolescence.

gxw356@student.bham.ac.uk