Members
Joao Mineiro
Working in:
- Virtual reality
Can VR be used to change the extent of painful forearm/wrist movements?
Pranav Mahajan
Working in:
- Computational and dynamical brain models
- Prosthetics and robotics
- Biomechanics
- Digital Health
- Virtual reality
- Data science and biomarkers
I work at the intersection of pain neuroscience and safe learning, with a focus on basic science experiments and theories, in hopes that atleast some of which could lead to interventions that alleviate chronic pain.
Sana Poormohammadreza
Working in:
- Computational and dynamical brain models
- Bioelectronics and sensor systems
- Prosthetics and robotics
- Biomechanics
- Pumps and infusion devices
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Invasive brain or spinal stimulation
- Peripheral stimulation
- Neurofeedback
- Invasive recording systems
- Virtual reality
- Data science and biomarkers
I’m a second year medical student interested in research in AI in Medicine. I would like to join the network group to meet researchers in this area and have opportunities to be involved in the research.
Yusuf Ahmed
Working in:
- Bioelectronics and sensor systems
- Prosthetics and robotics
- Biomechanics
- Digital Health
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Neurofeedback
- Virtual reality
- Data science and biomarkers
Neurotech for cognitive rehabilitation and age-technology. Neuro-rehabilitation engineering, signal processing and control
Callum O’Malley
Working in:
- Computational and dynamical brain models
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Peripheral stimulation
- Neurofeedback
- Virtual reality
- Data science and biomarkers
- Other
Individually my research covers the perception of effort and how it is affected by the pain experience on a psychophysiological level.
Linked to that, I then explore the behavioural and cognitive changes in self-regulation due to pain.
As a group, we explore the use of virtual reality and eye-tracking with their ability to enhance performance across sport, military, aviation, and clinical settings.
As a new member of my team, the aim is to bridge the pain research and eye-tracking/virtual reality research already underway.
Naomi du Bois
Working in:
- Digital Health
- Neurofeedback
- Virtual reality
- Other
Currently, I am a trial manager on a UKRI Turing AI Acceleration Fellowship Project, where I am responsible for planning and running EEG-based BCI research trials – which primarily includes trials with patients who have prolonged disorders of consciousness and/or physical impairments resulting from injury or disease. My main area of research has a focus on brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies.
Caitlin Naylor
Working in:
- Virtual reality
Using virtual reality to understand how body representation is distorted in chronic pain and also how VR can be used to rehabilitate and alter body perception to decrease pain.
Gavin Buckingham
Working in:
- Prosthetics and robotics
- Virtual reality
Perception, upper-limb motor control, grip forces, virtual reality
Jen Davies
Working in:
- Bioelectronics and sensor systems
- Biomechanics
- Digital Health
- Non-invasive brain stimulation
- Peripheral stimulation
- Virtual reality
I study the spinal and supraspinal neural control of dynamic movements, and the impact of pain, stress or anxiety, and musculoskeletal or neurological disorders on this control. To do this I use techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, surface electromyography (including high-density arrays), intramuscular electromyography, peripheral nerve stimulation and motion capture.