Aamir Sohail 🇬🇧 🇵🇰

🏛️ I am a first year MRC Advanced Interdisciplinary Methods (AIM) DTP PhD student based at the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH), University of Birmingham.

🧠 My research interests involve using a combination of behavioural tasks, computational modelling and neuroimaging to understand social decision-making, and using this knowledge to inform the precision-based treatment of mental health disorders.

🎓 Reflecting this, my PhD aims to use these methods to identify the neurocomputational mechanisms and associated brain regions affecting learning in social anxiety, and in a novel initiative, attempt to alleviate these changes using an mobile app-based cognitive therapy program. I am supervised by Lei Zhang and Patricia Lockwood.

🌍 🏳️‍🌈 🌐 I am also passionate about facilitating inclusivity and diversity in academia, as well as promoting open and reproducible science.

🎓 Education

University of Birmingham
PhD Psychology (2023-2027)

University of Nottingham
MSc Brain Imaging (2018)

Imperial College London
BSc Biomedical Science (2016)

📕 Quick Bio

I completed a BSc in Biomedical Science at Imperial College London, with my final-year project supervised by Anne Lingford-Hughes and Sam Turton, followed by an MSc in Brain Imaging at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Jan Derrfuss and Claudia Danielmeier. I then worked as research and administrative support at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) at the University of Reading under Anastasia Christakou.

Outside of work I enjoy playing snooker 🎱 (high break of 63), going on meandering walks 🚶, watching cricket 🏏 and listening to music 🎶

Click here to see some NIFTIs and GIFS of my 🧠 (That’s a GIF of my white-matter nulled T1 above!)

✉️ Contact Me

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to inquire about opportunities, collaborations, or to just have a chat! I will try to respond to you as soon as I can 😊

Address:
Room 110
Centre for Human Brain Health
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK


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