Meet the director and members of the Lothian Birth Cohorts team, and find out about their roles. Image Lothian Birth Cohorts director, Dr Simon Cox Simon received his PhD in 2012 at the University of Edinburgh, and has worked with the Lothian Birth Cohorts for more than a decade. He is interested in how the brain facilitates complex cognitive abilities, and how and why people differ in their abilities across the life course. Simon leads the Disconnected Mind Phase 4 funded by Age UK, and is Principal Investigator on the current MRC-funded LBC1936 neuroimaging study. He is a Senior Research Fellow within the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and was recently awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship by Wellcome and The Royal Society. Since December 2020 Simon is the Director of the Disconnected Mind project and the Lothian Birth Cohorts. Lothian Birth Cohorts team members Dr Simon Cox Principal Investigator Ian Deary, Professor Emeritus Co-Investigator and Founding Director Professor Joanna Wardlaw Co-Investigator Dr Tom C. Russ Co-Investigator and Principal Medical Contact Professor Michelle Luciano Co-Investigator Professor Mark Bastin Co-Investigator Professor Susan Shenkin Co-Investigator Dr Janie Corley Co-Investigator Dr Sarah Harris Co-Investigator Dr Susana Munoz-Maniega Co-Investigator Ms Adele Taylor Study Coordinator Mr Paul Redmond Database Manager Mr David Liewald Computer Manager Ms Sabela Mendez Research Assistant Dr Barbora Skarabela Knowledge Exchange and Impact Officer Dr W. David Hill MRC Research Fellow Dr Gail Davies Research Associate Dr Colin Buchanan Research Associate Dr Charley Xia Research Assistant Dr Lucia Ballerini Research Associate Dr Joanna Moodie Research Associate Dr Jure Mur Research Fellow Dr Anna Fürtjes Research Associate Dr Eleanor Conole Research Associate Ms Austeja Ciulkinyte PhD Student Mr Jonny Flint PhD Student Mr Sam Gibbon PhD Student Mr Otto Jutila PhD Student Mr Arish Rakshasa PhD Student Ms Hannah Smith PhD Student This article was published on 2023-11-23
