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Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU

email: ben.seymour at ndcn.ox.ac.uk

 

Wednesday
Feb292012

Ben Seymour

Group Leader

Ben is a clinical neuroscientist who's primary research aims to understand how pain is processed in the human brain by using a combination of theoretical and experimental methods. The goal is to build a comprehensive understanding of how the pain system is built and works in humans, and also use this knowledge to design new types of (technology-based) treatment for patients who suffer from pain - the commonest cause of disability worldwide.

Ben did his PhD at UCL (with Ray Dolan and Karl Friston), followed by training in clinical neurology based at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. He moved to the Computational and Biological Learning Lab in at Cambridge as a Wellcome Intermediate Fellow in 2013, spending several years at the Center for Information and Neural Networks in Japan. He moved to the Nuffield Centre for Clinical Neuroscience at Oxford University as a Wellcome Senior Fellow in 2020. He has a joint appointment with the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.

Sunday
Nov032019

Danielle Hewitt

Post-doctoral Fellow 

Danielle joined in late 2022, from Liverpool University. She has a background in pain neuroscience, with previous research in to central effects of peripheral and spinal neurostimulation, quantitative meausre of pain responses, and EEG and fMRI. She is working on understanding how tonic pain adaptively shapes behaviour to support optimal learning and bodily protection. 

https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/danielle-hewitt

Tuesday
Jun162020

RuoHan Lui

MSc student

RuoHan joined us from UCL in 2023 for a MRes. Her research probes the link between pain and reward in sports settings, and she is designed VR-EEG paradigms in cycling to see how reward and pain mutually interact. 

https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/ruohan-liu

Thursday
Jul092020

Yijia (Charlie) Yan

Charlie is a DPhil Student at OxCIN, NDCN. His background is pure mathematics (Fudan University) and cognitive neuroscience (ICN/UCL), and his research currently looks at theoretical and experimental aspects of the conceptual representation of pain in the brain.

https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/yijia-charlie-yan

Sunday
Aug092020

Shuangyi Tong

Shuangyi is a post-doctoral researcher t at IBME, Engineering. His background is pure mathemetics (Canada) and neuroscience (KAIST). His research focuses on computational neuroscience and engineering designs to study naturalist behaviour during tonic pain.

https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/shuangyi-tong/

Saturday
Sep052020

Pranav Mahajan

Pranav is studying for DPhil at NDCN, and co-supervised by Ioannis Havoutis (Oxford Robotics Institute)  currently an intern student from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Goa (India). His research focus on 'safe' control systems.

Sunday
Sep062020

Lab Alumni

Monday
Sep072020

Key External Collaborators

Liam Browne at UCL
Kirsty Bannister at Imperial
Peter Dayan at Tuebingen
Alex Vuckovic at Glasgow
Helen Dawes and Sam Hughes at Exeter
Val Sparkes at Cardiff
Takufumi Yanagisawa at Osaka