Mentoring & Teaching

I work with students at all stages — from secondary school through Graduate level.

Current

Mentor — British Neuroscience Association Scholars Programme

April 2026 – present

Providing professional and personal mentorship for graduate students across the UK as part of the BNA Scholars Programme.

Co-supervisor — Master’s student, University of Cambridge

October 2025 – present

Halid Oguz Serce — Mapping longitudinal changes in structural networks using generative network modelling.

Mentor — Lumiere Education

June 2023 – present

Through Lumiere, I create individualised research syllabi and teach weekly one-on-one sessions for high-school students worldwide. Nine students mentored to date across the USA, India, China, Qatar, and Albania.

Mentee project topics include:

  • Neural resilience and the development of Alzheimer’s disease
  • Depression and anxiety in adolescence
  • The gut-brain axis and mental health interventions (resulting in an accepted manuscript in The National Journal of High School Science)
  • Brain tumours and brain connectivity
  • Motivation in human behaviour
  • Whole-brain network organisation and psychiatric disorders
  • Transdiagnostic mental health patterns in brain networks
  • Ageing, memory, and Alzheimer’s
  • Neuroplasticity and addiction

Lab training & workshops

  • Lead workshops on tractography, diffusion MRI processing, and computational pipelines at the 4D Lab.
  • Provide informal training to graduate students and postdocs in data processing, Python, R, and MATLAB code development.

Earlier teaching & clinical experience

  • One-to-One Classroom Support — Wimpfheimer Nursery School, NY (2019–2020). Supporting a child with Down syndrome in an after-school programme.
  • Clinical Intern — Chandelier Assessments, Vermont (2018). Observed and assisted in paediatric psychological assessments including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
  • Teacher’s Assistant — Wimpfheimer Nursery School, NY (2018). Toddler classroom; developed and ran an educational programme.

Service

  • Postdoc Committee Member — MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (October 2025 – present). Organising the Postdoc Retreat, social events, and grant workshops; tracking postdoc wellbeing and needs.
  • Peer reviewer — Brain Communications, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference.