The following descriptions were written by Edwin, and reflect his exceedingly positive opinions of his colleagues and collaborators. Where applicable, links to personal websites have been included (click on a name to find out more).

	Edwin Dalmaijer University of Bristol, UK Edwin’s research interests are best summarised as the quantitative exploration of development, both within individuals and in populations. Broadly, he investigates how affective and cognitive faculties impact each other, and how they are affected by the environment. Edwin triangulates problems with narrowly focussed experiments aided by computational models of behaviour, with machine learning to find complex patterns in large secondary datasets, and with agent-based population simulations.
	Sameer Alladin PhD Candidate Sameer studies the interplay between gastric and neural physiology in disgust. He uses machine learning to align electrophysiological recordings from stomach and brain, and tests how they are impacted by pharmacological manipulations. The end goals are to better understand the gut-brain connection in disgust, and to reduce the negative impact of daily disgust for professionals who regularly deal with bodily effluvia. Sameer has an undergraduate in Psychology, and postgraduate degrees in Music and in Applied Neuropsychology (all with impressively high marks, merits, and distinctions). His PhD is funded by a highly competitive scholarship for international students at Bristol.
	Evgeniya (Jenny) Anisimova Research Assistant Jenny runs methodological studies on electrogastrography (EGG) and its combined use with electroencephalography (EEG), and contributes to ongoing studies in the lab.
	Jeneia Dinglasan Research Assistant (summer 2024) Jeneia’s summer project focussed on the role of disgust in children’s fussy eating. She composed a stimulus set made up of professionally produced photos and recordings, and acquired data with electrogastrography.
	Thomas (Tom) Hawkins MSc by Research Tom combines eye-tracking, cognitive tests, and computational modelling to investigate attention. His project includes a methodological assessment of a new eye tracker, and models of spatial attention at rest and during multi-target visual search.
	Will Hughes MSc by Research Will’s project, supervised by Prof Chris Jarrold and myself, is on day-by-day fluctuations in attentional control and short-term memory.
	Elif Yazgan Research Assistant (summer 2024) Elif’s summer project focussed on the role of disgust in children’s fussy eating. She composed a stimulus set made up of professionally produced photos and recordings, and acquired data with electrogastrography.

Collaborators

In alphabetical order of last names.

	Tom Armstrong Whitman College, WA, USA Tom is a clinical psychologist who studies disgust. He is an early adopter of eye tracking in this field, with a nearly pathological preference for low-cost devices. We work on the lack of habituation to disgust (Dalmaijer et al., 2021, JEP:General), the cultural evolution of disgust (Dalmaijer & Armstrong, preprint, arXiv), and the online eye-tracking alternative MouseView.js (Anwyl-Irvine et al., 2022, Behaviour Research Methods).
	Duncan Astle MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK Duncan is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who uses neuroimaging, machine learning, and large datasets to investigate how children and their brains develop. We do methodological work together (e.g. Dalmaijer et al., 2022, BMC Bioinformatics on cluster algorithms, and Dalmaijer et al., 2020, in: Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on magnetoencephalography), and we investigate how socioeconomic status impacts child development (e.g. Dalmaijer et al., 2021, Current Psychology).
	Lauren S. Hallion University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA Lauren is a clinical and research psychologist who studies the cognitive and neural mechanisms of anxiety. We work together on a project that Lauren leads and that spans across several labs across North America, on the longitudinal effects of COVID-19 on mental wellbeing (Breaux et al., 2024).
	Karla Holmboe University of Bristol, UK Karla is a developmental psychologist who investigates executive functions in babies and toddlers. We work together on methods to measure cognition in very young children, including eye-tracking and electroencephalography (EEG).
	Masud Husain University of Oxford, UK Masud is a professor of clinical neurology with a wide range of expertise, including in hemispatial neglect, short-term memory, and apathy in health and disease. We have worked on how visual short-term memories are encoded (Edwin’s thesis), how search organisation can be measured (Dalmaijer et al., 2015, Behavior Research Methods), and the efficacy of guanfacine in the rehabilitation of attention, short-term memory, and search in people who suffer from hemispatial neglect after stroke (Dalmaijer* & Li* et al., 2018, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry).
	Camilla Nord MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK Camilla is a mental health neuroscientist who investigates the basis of neuropsychiatric disorders with neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and computational modelling. She has a keen interest in interoception, which is the basis of our collaboration on the role of gastric state in disgust (Nord* & Dalmaijer* et al., 2021, Current Biology). Sometimes, we also venture into statistical power (Dalmaijer et al., 2022, BMC Bioinformatics).

Lab alumni

	Aidan Chan Research Assistant (summer 2023) Aidan’s summer project focussed on the gastric electrophysiology of disgust in adults, and how it relates to gaze behaviour and facial expressions.
	Faye Chan MSc Student (2021-2022) Faye studied links between disgust and trait psychopathy.
	Charlotte Edgar MSc Student (2021-2022) Inspired by her own experiences, Charlotte studied disgust avoidance in healthcare assistants who work in care homes.
	Ruth Judson Research Assistant (2022-2023) Ruth studied the gastric electrophysiology of disgust in children.
	Will Mills Research Assistant (2023-2024) Will investigated cumulative culture in human navigation, using a virtual environment he developed in Unity and C#.
	Eve Panton Research Assistant (2021-2023) Eve studied how socioeconomic environment impacts resilience to adversity.
	Poppy Whittaker Research Assistant (2022-2023) Poppy studied the gastric electrophysiology of disgust in children.
	Po-Liang Yeh MSc Student (2021-2022) Po-Liang studied how to employ disgust-based messaging to improve hygiene information.