News on student progress from the previous couple of months.

Szonya Durant ('99-'03) studied MSci Mathematics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London (now QMUL), gaining a first. She was amongst the first batch of students to join CoMPLEX on a 4-year joint MRes/PhD scheme. She completed her PhD entitled “A computational and psychophysical study of motion induced distortions of perceived location” joint with the Psychology Department at UCL under the supervision of Professor Alan Johnston (now Deputy Director of CoMPLEX). She went on to gain a one year Royal Society International Fellowship at the University of Sydney, Australia, which extended into a postdoctoral position with Ass. Prof. Colin Clifford. Her work there involved studying interaction of visual processes coding for orientation and contrast over time and space. She then returned to take a post-doc position at Royal Holloway University of London Psychology Department on an EPSRC grant on visual motion perception. She has recently been awarded a prestigious 2 year Leverhulme Fellowship to remain at Royal Holloway and develop her own project involving neuroimaging methods investigating optic flow in natural scenes.

July 07

Nicol Harper ('00-'04) awarded Sir Henry Welcome post-doctoral Fellowship. The fellowship is worth £250,000 over 4 years and is awarded to the most promising newly qualified postdoctoral researchers.
Nicol studied for his PhD with Professor David McAlpine at the Ear Institute researching Information processing in the auditory system.

July 07

Current CoMPLEX student, Lewis Dartnell ('03-'07), publishes 'Life in the Universe: a beginners guide.'

April 07

Receives runner up award in New Scientist essay competition

October 07

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