Between 2019-2023 I was a Senior Research Fellow at University College London, and joined King's College London in late 2023. From late summer/autumn 2024, my group comprises PhD Researcher Liuni Zou, who was awarded a King's-China scholarship to study sleep and pain in preterm infants, and Research Assistant Jayvian Mavi who is investigating sleep and epilepsy in children with complex needs using home electroencephalography (EEG), in collaboration with Co-Investigator Dr Joel Winson. The latter project is part of an initiative led from my faculty: Better Health & Care Futures.

I and my colleagues are committed to the principles of open science. We have published two of only four large open-access neonatal EEG datasets available internationally: 118 infants with resting sleep-wake EEG data, and 112 infants with EEG, behavioural and physiological data following a painful procedure. (The other two datasets are here and here). Several of our manuscripts also include associated smaller open-access datasets, e.g. EEG data following somatosensory stimulation to the face, hands and feet in preterm infants. I have also made available a write-up of my recent families and patient involvement in the design of a project to analyse routine clinical paediatric EEG recordings for research purposes, for the benefit of other academics.

I maintain an international profile in clinical neurophysiology. Since 2015 I have served on the Editorial Board for the journal Clinical Neurophysiology Practice. I am a member of the AI-4-NICU working group and grant review panel, and co-chair the EPSRC/MRC-funded UKRI-Network Plus Developmental EEG Reliability taskforce. I am part of the 'What is Sleep?' working group based at the Santa Fe Institute. I have featured in international media including The Times and National Geographic.

I supervise translational and applied student projects. In the current academic year, up to and including late summer 2024, this encompasses 4 x MSc projects, and 4 x BSc projects including funded internships within the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship scheme, Laidlaw scheme in collaboration with Prof Samraat Pawar from Imperial College, and King's Undergraduate Research Fellowship scheme.

I have a special interest in neuromonitoring technologies applied to neonatal/developmental, critical care and sleep medicine, and epileptology. My research is highly cross-disciplinary, inspired by ideas from pre-clinical models and fundamental biosciences, and maths and computer science. My latest preprints are here and here.

I welcome interest from prospective PhD students in areas centred on or interfacing with my research topics, and am experienced in supervising quantitative projects. I hold large fetal and infancy datasets, providing opportunities for innovative post-graduate projects addressing developmental medicine. I am part of the PhD supervisor pool for the King’s PhD Programme in Mental Health Research for Health Professionals, MRC DTP, Wellcome Trust’s PhD Programme in Neuro-Immune Interactions in Health & Disease, and LIDo DTP. I am also part of the supervisor pool for the Centre for Translational Medicine (CTM) pre-doctoral Clinical Research Excellence Fellowships (p-CREFs) which offer one year of funding for health professionals to prepare a PhD fellowship application. Currently I am the primary supervisor of Liuni Zou's PhD, an External Reviewer for Sara Rapuc's PhD on cognitive outcomes after neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy at the University of Bristol, and an Internal Reviewer for Yangyang Dong's PhD on technologies to support clinical education at King's.

My e-mail address is [email protected].