The team
Meet the director and members of the Lothian Birth Cohorts team, and find out about their roles.
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 |
| Dr Michelle Luciano | Co-Investigator |
| Dr Mark Bastin | Co-Investigator |
| Dr 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 |
| Ms Danielle Page | Research Assistant |
| Dr Barbora Skarabela | Knowledge Exchange and Impact Officer |
| Dr Gail Davies | Research Associate |
| Dr Colin Buchanan | Research Associate |
| Dr W. David Hill |
MRC Research Fellow |
| Dr Charley Xia | Research Assistant |
| Dr Gergo Baranyi | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Dr Lucia Ballerini | Research Associate |
| Dr Joanna Moodie | Research Associate |
| Dr Jure Mur | Research Associate |
| Dr Anna Fürtjes | Research Associate |
| Dr Eleanor Conole | Research Associate |
| Mr Sam Gibbon | PhD Student |
| Mr Arish Rakshasa | PhD Student |
| Mr Otto Jutila | PhD Student |
| Ms Hannah Smith | PhD Student |