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.
























Alumni



Mahmoud B.Maina
2022-23 TReND
now Wellcome Fellow and Director of BioRTC, Nigeria



Yehor Kosiachkin
Postdoc 2023-4
Then postdoc with Leon Lagnado

Samyra Cury Salek
TReND general coordinator 2020-2024



Mingyi Zhou
2016-21 PhD
then postdoc @Berkeley

Eira Watts-Moore
PhD student (/w Jenny Bosten)

Noora E Nevala
2016-20 PhD+Postdoc
then Postdoc at Tampere, Finland

John E Bear
2017-21 PhD

Joanna Szczotka
2020, MSc
then PhD student in USA

Tom Hagley
2020-21 partial PhD

Philipp Bartel
2016-21 PhD+Postdoc
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
- Leon Lagnado (Sussex Neuroscience)
- Miguel Maravall (Sussex Neuroscience)
- Daniel Osorio (Sussex Neuroscience)
- Claudio Alonso (Sussex Neuroscience)
- Kevin Staras (Sussex Neuroscience)
International
- Phillip Berens (BCCN, University of Tübingen, Germany)
- Thomas Euler (CIN, University of Tübingen, Germany)
- Katrin Franke (BCCN / MPI, Tuebingen, Germany)
- Aristides Arrenberg (CIN, University of Tübingen, Germany)
- Herwig Baier (MPI Brain Research, Germany)
- Kevin Briggman (MPI Caesar, Germany)
- Silke Haverkamp (MPI Caesar, Germany)
- Dan Eric Nilsson (Lund Vision Group, Sweden)
- Josh Sanes (Harvard, USA)
- Richard Kramer (Berkeley, San Francisco, USA)
- Sebastian Seung (Princeton, USA)
- Julie Semmelhack (HKUST, Hong Kong, China)
- Joe Raimondo (Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
- Ihab Riad (Department of Physics, University of Khartoum, Sudan)









