About me

I am currently a Senior Research Fellow at the CoNI Lab, University of Nottingham. My primary research interests include establishing robust methods estimating structural brain connectivity across species and individuals, and using these features to reveal links between structural connectivity and behaviour/cognition in evolution, development and disease. I developed a widely used open-source tool FSL’s XTRACT for the automated and standardised estimation of major white matter fibre bundles in the human (neonate and adult) and non-human primate brain using diffusion tractography. I am a member of the dMRI and cross-species working groups of the Center for Mesoscale Connectomics, and have developed open-source dMRI processing pipelines and contributed to data releases of ultra-high field dMRI data for the in vivo and ex vivo macaque brain.

I also curated and openly-released ON-Harmony, a comprehensive multi-modal MRI travelling-heads harmonisation resource.

I graduated from my PhD in August 2021, supervised by Prof. Stamatios Sotiropoulos and funded by the MRC IMPACT DTP. During my PhD I developed FSL’s XTRACT and explored the stability of multivariate statistical techniques applied to brain-behaviour associations using large cohort datasets, including the Human Connectome Project (HCP) UK Biobank.

Prior to my PhD, I completed the Scientist Training Programme (STP) at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust leading to state registration as a Clinical Scientist. During my STP, I specialised in Imaging with Non-Ionising Radiation and completed a part-time MSc in Clinical Sciences (Medical Physics) at the University of Newcastle.