Our team

We are located at Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. We are always on the lookout for highly motivated folks in any relevant area. Depending on background, further options may be available! If in doubt, ask! How to apply.

Tom Baden

Tom Baden

Group Leader

Charlotte Wilson

Charlotte Wilson

Lab Manager (practical)

Madeleine Wells

Madeleine Wells

Lab Manager (admin.)

Filip K Janiak

Filip K Janiak

Postdoc

Marvin Seifert

Marvin Seifert

Postdoc

Xinwei Wang

Xinwei Wang

Postdoc

Tessa Herzog

Tessa Herzog

Postdoc

Chiara Fornetto

Chiara Fornetto

Postdoc

Georgios Kafetzis

Georgios Kafetzis

Postdoc

Katarina Moravkova

Katarina Moravkova

Postdoc

Emelie Brodrick

Emelie Brodrick

Postdoc (/w L Prieto Godino)

Michael Forsthofer

Michael Forsthofer

Postdoc / Wellcome Fellow

Simen Bruoygard

Simen Bruoygard

Postdoc

Pranav Seth

Pranav Seth

Postdoc

Laura Steel

Laura Steel

Postdoc

Darshini Ravishankar

Darshini Ravishankar

Postdoc

Thom Stark

Thom Stark

PhD student

Marcus B.-Spector

Marcus B.-Spector

PhD student

Kevin Doran

Kevin Doran

PhD student

Jana Orlandic

Jana Orlandic

PhD student (/w T Euler)

Lea Moukam

Lea Moukam

MSc student

Elizabeth West

Elizabeth West

M-Res student

Anastasia Fotaki

Anastasia Fotaki

UG student

Sophie Croft

Sophie Croft

UG student

Alumni

Takeshi Yoshimatsu

Takeshi Yoshimatsu

Postdoc 2016-22

Now Assistant Prof at WUSTL, USA

Paul A Roberts

Paul A Roberts

2019-22 Postdoc

Now Research Fellow in Birmingham

Mahmoud B.Maina

Mahmoud B.Maina

2022-23 TReND

now Wellcome Fellow and Director of BioRTC, Nigeria

Katrin Franke

Katrin Franke

2012-16, PhD

Now Professor in Tuebingen

Chris J Forman

Chris J Forman

2016, Postdoc

Now author, and project scientist at Northwestern, USA

Yehor Kosiachkin

Yehor Kosiachkin

Postdoc 2023-4

Then postdoc with Leon Lagnado

Samyra Cury Salek

Samyra Cury Salek

TReND general coordinator 2020-2024

Natasha Pushkina

Natasha Pushkina

Lab Manager 2016-2024

André Maia Chagas

André Maia Chagas

Tech wizard

Then lecturer at Sussex

Carola Yovanovich

Carola Yovanovich

Postdoc 2020-25

Now at Stanford

Maxime Zimmermann

Maxime Zimmermann

2016-21 PhD+Postdoc

then Research Bio-Engineer in at Pasteur, Paris

Mingyi Zhou

Mingyi Zhou

2016-21 PhD

then postdoc @Berkeley

Eira Watts-Moore

Eira Watts-Moore

PhD student (/w Jenny Bosten)

Daniel Kozlowski

Daniel Kozlowski

ERASMUS 2024

Now PhD student in Germany

Noora E Nevala

Noora E Nevala

2016-20 PhD+Postdoc

then Postdoc at Tampere, Finland

John E Bear

John E Bear

2017-21 PhD

Joanna Szczotka

Joanna Szczotka

2020, MSc

then PhD student in USA

Naomi Green

Naomi Green

2019-21 Postdoc

Tom Hagley

Tom Hagley

2020-21 partial PhD

Philipp Bartel

Philipp Bartel

2016-21 PhD+Postdoc

Aisha Wamala

Aisha Wamala

2020, TReND coordinator

Fadime Arik

Fadime Arik

2022, MSci

then PhD student in Bristol

Harry Bowles

Harry Bowles

2018, MSc

then PhD student in London

Dorieke Grijseels

Dorieke Grijseels

2016, rotation student

completed PhD at Sussex

Evelyn Abraham

Evelyn Abraham

2023-4, postdoc

Ben Lawrence

Ben Lawrence

2021, MSci

Undergraduates

2025

Ed Davies, Vanz Labitad (EM – data projects zebrafish and shark)

2024

Mahnum Yousaf (primate vision, literature project), Harry Racz (zebrafish bipolar cells, data project)

2023

Hugh Reza Knight (sharks), Danielle Olsen (birds), Alp Yavuz Pekin (Snakes), Theresa Gabra Derias (birds)

2022

Thom Stark (frog EM), Nathalie Anyagwa (frog EM), Annabel Rowney-Smith, Nicle Edwards (fish vision), Marta Sinisi (underwater vision)

2021

Anya Simon and Jana Orlandic (Hyperspectral Imaging), Emma Mitchell (Literature: Colour vision in birds), Alice Lecomte (Literature: Vision in Sharks), Leah Diplock (Literature: Vision in nocturnal birds)

2020

Adam Broda (Zebrafish behaviour), Isobel Tear (Natural imaging), Bence Szloboda (Open Hardware), Charles Shrimpton (Open Hardware), Poppy Grimes (Literature: Biomimetics), Jack Cotterill (Literature: Vision in squid)

2019

Rosie Ashley East (Zebrafish behaviour), Bruce Irving (Literature: Chameleon vision), Sian Herrera (Literature: Zebrafish as disease model), Chiara Esposito (BC anatomy)

2018

Lyra Whitehouse (BC anatomy), Meena Zaveri (Zebrafish transgenesis), Nicolaos Manesis (Natural Imaging)

Collaborations

Sussex

International