Our team

We are located at Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. We also maintain a co-affiliation with The Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tübingen, Germany.
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






John E Bear
2017-21 PhD

Mingyi Zhou
2016-21 PhD
Now postdoc @Berkeley

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

Tom Hagley
2020-21 partial PhD

Philipp Bartel
2016-21 PhD+Postdoc

Joanna Szczotka
2020, MSc
now PhD student in USA

Dorieke Grijseels
2016, rotation student
completed PhD at Sussex
Undergraduates
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)