Former lab members

Dr Philippa Howsley

Supervised by Dr Liat Levita and Professor Glenn Waller

Thesis: Behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying risk-taking behaviours and anxiety during adolescence.

Current post: NIHR CYP Med Tech Project Manager.

Email: philippa.howsley@sch.nhs.uk

Dr Elizabeth Kirkham

Supervised by Dr Liat Levita and Dr Gillian Hardy

Thesis: The effects of early life stress on affective processing: Behavioural and neural correlates

Current post: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School

Email: elizabeth.kirkham@ed.ac.uk

Dr Isobel Williams

Supervised by Professor Markus Reuber and Dr Liat Levita

Thesis: Emotion processing in patients with functional neurological symptoms

Current post: Trainee Clinical Psychologist, University of Edinburgh

Email: i.williams-5@sms.ed.ac.uk 

Samantha Linton

Supervised by Dr Liat Levita and Dr Jim Stone

Thesis: Neural signatures of emotion processing in adolescence

Current post: Research Fellow, Laboratory for Translational and Affective Neuroscience, Harvard Medical school, Laboratory for Translational and Affective Neuroscience, directed by Diego A. Pizzagalli

Email: slinton@mclean.harvard.edu

Marco McSweeney

Supervised by Dr Liat Levita and Dr Myles Jones

Thesis: Emotion and motor function

Current post: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland, Child Development Lab, Nathan Fox

Máté Gyurkovics

PhD Student supervised by Dr Liat Levita and Dr Tom Stafford

Thesis: The role of affective stimuli in attentional control

Current post: Postdoctoral Research Associate; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Gratton lab