Wednesday
Feb292012

Ben Seymour

Group Leader

Ben is neurologist and 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 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), 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. 

Sunday
Nov032019

Danielle Hewit

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.

Thursday
Jul092020

Yijia (Charlie) Yan

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

Sunday
Aug092020

Shuangyi Tong

Shuangyi is a DPhil student at IBME, Engineering. His background is pure mathemetics (Waterloo) and neuroscience (KAIST). His research currently focuses on the computational neuroscience of controllability and pain / aversive learning.

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 Collaborators

Wako Yoshida at Kyoto Univeristy.
Mitsuo Kawato at ATR labs
Kazuhisa Shibata at RIKEN.
Susanne Becker at Balgrist.
Takufumi Yanagisawa at Osaka University.
Nobu Hagura at CiNet
Masaya Hirashima at CiNet
Yasuhide Morioka, Shionogi Corp, Osaka.