Junior Research Fellow, Christ's College Cambridge
Developing AI-powered tools for patient stratification and prognostication using neuroimaging and clinical data from NHS memory clinics.
AI & neuroimaging researcher building tools for individualised dementia care.
Based at Christ's College and the Neuroinformatics Lab, I work across clinical and computational teams to bridge research and clinical practice.
Junior Research Fellow in Biological and Medical Sciences, Christ's College, University of Cambridge
Research Associate in Neuroinformatics, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Affiliate, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge
As part of the Neuroinformatics Lab, I focus on analysing neuroimaging and clinical data from NHS memory clinics, leveraging AI and normative modeling to create individualised tools for patient stratification and prognostication. I have contributed to the PASSIAN Project in collaboration with UCL, implementing a secure, scalable clinical data-sharing solution via federated learning in the NHS.
My PhD research explored neural and cognitive correlates of Parkinson's Disease Psychosis using multimodal imaging techniques, combined with network neuroscience, transcriptomics, and receptor map approaches.
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Supervisors: Prof Mitul Mehta & Prof Dominic ffytche
Supervisor: Prof Graham Murray
Promoting open access to coding and AI resources for women in technology.
Worked on graph-theoretical and machine learning analyses of brain imaging data under supervision of Prof Ed Bullmore and Dr Sarah Morgan. (Cambridge, UK)
Ran optogenetic testing of modulatory neurons in larval Drosophila. Funded by the Genetics Society UK Summer Studentship Award. (Cambridge, UK)
Ran eye-tracking and behavioural experiments on patients with Prader-Willi syndrome and worked on natural language coding for the Natural History of Song Project (NHS). (Cambridge, US)
I combine normative modelling, federated learning and machine learning to build robust, privacy-preserving clinical tools for dementia diagnosis and prognosis.
Validating data-driven population-reference models (BrainCharts, Bethlehem et al., 2022) with neuroimaging and clinical records for disease stratification and prognosis in neurodegenerative cohorts.
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The PASSIAN Project focuses on implementing federated learning in the NHS to create a secure, scalable clinical data-sharing solution. This work addresses a critical barrier to developing AI implementations for real-world biomedical data.
Federated learning enables multiple institutions to collaboratively train machine learning models on their local data without sharing raw patient information, preserving privacy while enabling large-scale AI development for healthcare applications.
Combining AI with clinical and biological data (QMIN-MC and NACC cohorts) to develop individualised diagnostic and prognostic tools for dementia.
Investigation and validation of this approach in a large scale cohorts of people with different dementia diagnoses.
ARUK Grant £3,847Applying graph theoretical methods and machine learning to resting-state fMRI data to understand network dysfunction in PD psychosis.
Applying computational reinforcement learning models to understand decision-making deficits in schizophrenia and their relationship to genetic risk.
NSPN Consortium
Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association (Accepted)
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The Lancet Digital Health (Accepted)
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Brain Communications, 7(3)
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Cortex, 146, 161-172
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Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47(1), 237-248
Read paper →Co-supervise and mentor PhD students at Cambridge University, providing neuroimaging expertise, methodological support, and professional development guidance.
Second supervisor (with Prof. Bethlehem) for visiting MPhil student working on deep learning for multimodal brain imaging (2024–2025). Conducted formal appraisal for thesis submission.
Train lab members in neuroimaging analysis (structural MRI, fMRI, DWI), preprocessing pipelines, Docker/Singularity containers, and quality control. Lead training in HPC systems, Bash scripting, and reproducible analysis workflows.
Interviewer for undergraduate admissions, Christ’s College (2023, 2024, 2025, expected 2026). PhD admissions interviewing and Postdoctoral recruitment interviews, Department of Psychology.
I took part in an event with the graduate students in my college (the MCR) to demystify applications to funding and Junior Research Fellowships at Oxbridge.
Workshops on MRI data processing, fMRI analysis, and multimodal neuroimaging.
Lecturer for L205 Principles of AI-driven Neuroscience and Translational Biomedicine, School of Technology (co-teaching with Prof. Richard Bethlehem on AI applications in Clinical Neuroscience). Lent term 2026.
Lecturer for NST II PDN (3rd year) — N2 Experimental Tools for the Neuroscientist and how they are Shaping Scientific Discovery. Michaelmas 2025.
Lecturer for the PBS03 neuroscience lab module — covering discussion writing, the replication crisis, reproducibility, questionable research practices, and open science workflows. Lent term 2026.
Supervisor for Psychological and Behavioural Science Tripos Part IA — PBS1 (Introduction to Psychology) and PBS2 (Psychological Enquiry and Methods).
A collection of browser-based interactive activities I built for teaching research methods and open science. Students experience concepts like multiple comparisons, p-hacking, and researcher degrees of freedom first-hand rather than through slides alone. Used in lectures, supervisions, and small-group teaching across undergraduate and MPhil courses.
College Coordinator at Christ's College (run by Cambridge Refugee Hub's Mentoring Programme). Supporting Afghan women barred from education through online mentorship and academic connection (2026–present).
Google Women Techmakers Ambassador (2022–present). Promoting open access to coding and AI resources for women in technology.
Co-organiser in collaboration with the Accelerate Science team. Event aimed at graduate students from all disciplines at Christ's and Jesus College Cambridge (2024).
Mentor for Project Access (Italy and UK). Having grown up in southern Italy with limited educational opportunities, I joined this nonprofit to improve access for students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Delivering academic sessions in the Explore Christ's Summer School for students in underrepresented groups. Athena Swan committee member, School of Clinical Medicine (2017–2018, 2022–2023). Cambridge MyHE+ articles for under-represented applicants.
Championing open-access research, code sharing, and reproducible science practices.
Regular talks and presentations to make neuroscience and AI accessible to broader audiences. Invited external reviewer for the Wellcome Mental Health Award Scheme.
£25,000 (Principal Investigator, with Prof Richard Bethlehem as Co-I)
Novel Applications of AI and LLM for Clinical Neuroimaging Research
Research Departmental Symposium, University of Cambridge
Cambridge Multimodal Imaging Neuroscience data hackathon, for an open-source toolkit powered by a fine-tuned LLM enabling interactive neuroimaging analysis
50% funding awarded by Accelerate Science & Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)
£3,847 (Principal Investigator) + Travel Grant £400
For work on Morphometric Inverse Divergence Networks and post-mortem brain analyses
£1,000
For presenting at OHBM Conference in Montreal, Canada
Selected from thousands of applicants
£4,000 (5% success rate)
Research placement at the University of Cambridge, Psychiatry Department
>£70,000 (4-year funding)
Full doctoral research support at King's College London
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