Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn completed his MSc in Neuroscience and DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. He has worked at University College London, Aarhus University, NYU and the University of Cambridge, studying the neural basis of emotion and decision-making.  He founded the social decision lab and is a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex.
Jolyon Miles-Wilson is completing his PhD studying decision-making processes that lead to collective social change and the persistence of unfair societies. He tests groups individuals using uses behavioural studies and brain imaging. Jolyon started at Sussex with an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (Distinction).
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Every year we also host 3 Masters and 10 Undergraduate students completing their dissertations. Each makes a valuable contribution to our research program.  
Alumni (PhD and Postdoctoral)
​Dr Jo Cutler used brain imaging, psychophysiology, and behavioural methods to understand altruism and why people give to charity.  ​She was funded by an ESRC 1+3 studentship, completing her MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (Distinction) and PhD with the lab. Now: Postdoc, Universities of Birmingham and Oxford
Dr James Livermore studied neurotransmitter systems involved in decision-making, metacognition, interoception, and social cognition.  He completed his MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (Distinction) and PhD with the lab. Now: Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour
Dr Lina Skora joined the lab and the Sackler Centre for Conscious Science for her PhD. She researching the influence of interoceptive signals on unconscious and conscious cognition. Lina is co-supervised by DC-M, Dr Ryan Scott and Prof Anil Seth. Now: Postdoctoral researcher with Anil Seth.
Dr. Arndis Simonsen ​changed how we think about social cognition in schizophrenia.  She combines techniques of clinical evaluation, neuroimaging, eye tracking, linguistic analysis and psychopharmacology. Now: Based at Aarhus University, in Denmark with her own research program funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.
Dr Idalmis Santieseban ​- Was a valuable postdoc in the lab, who then went on to be an ESRC Early Career Fellow (Cambridge), Now: Lecturer Liverpool Hope University