I am interested in the neural underpinnings of sensory perception (hearing, vision and touch), which I study using a range of neuroimaging techniques, from EEG, MEG and intracranial EEG to structural and functional MRI. 

Prospective PhD students can find my available PhD projects here: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/psychology/phd-studentships

Perception

Cognitive Neuroscience

Brain Imaging

Research methods

Statistics

2025 – 2029 PhD student supervision “Echoes of perception: Mapping sensory cortex with fMRI-guided ultrasound stimulation”, Candidate: Keanu Toomer, PhD Psychology, University of Plymouth

2020 Master student co-supervision “Connectivity-based and functional parcellation of tonotopically-organized human auditory cortex”, Candidate: Nour Nahle, MSc in Brain Imaging, Lebanese University

2019 Master student co-supervision “Single-subject, in vivo parcellation of human auditory cortex using functional, structural and diffusion MRI”,
Candidate: Iman Nassar, MSc in Brain Imaging, Lebanese University

2015 – 2019 PhD student co-supervision “Towards the detection of tonotopic re-organization in the human auditory cortex”,
PhD candidate: Ben Gurer, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham

2013 – 2014 Undergraduateproject student supervision “In-Vivo Parcellation of the Core Human Auditory Cortex”
BSc Neuroscience (3rd year), University of Nottingham

Biography

I completed a PhD in cognitive neuroscience in Lyon, France in 2007. I then worked as a research scientist at Columbia University in New York (2007-2009), at the University of Nottingham (2009-2012) and at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham (2012-2016). From 2017 to 2022, I held an Assistant Professorship at the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon.