Education

Undergraduate-level, credit-bearing course structured around three modules — Cellular, Systems and Advanced Topics. Covered the electrical and chemical basis of neurotransmission, how external stimuli are neurally coded into perception and sensation, and the pathologies of the nervous system, alongside the laboratory and research methods used to design neuroscience experiments.

Final project: wrote a book on neuroplasticity.

An intensive Pre-College course on the neural mechanisms underlying human behaviour and neuropsychiatric disorders. Combining psychology and neuroscience, it examined the biopsychosocial factors behind anxiety, major depressive disorder, substance abuse and schizophrenia, tracing each to its genetic, cellular, behavioural and systems-level mechanisms through lectures, discussion and case work.

Final project: case-study presentation on PTSD and its clinical implications.

The electrical life of the neuron, built from first principles: the resting potential, diffusion and electrostatic forces, the Nernst and Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz equations, passive membrane properties such as resistance and capacitance, and the action potential. Theory was paired with computational simulation of neuronal behaviour.

A three-month evening lecture series run by the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience and taught by graduate researchers — a breadth-first tour of the discipline rather than a single specialism. Sessions moved from neuroanatomy, action potentials and chemical messengers through plasticity, learning and memory, vision, brain imaging, stress and immunity, touch, pain and movement, sleep, drugs and the brain, and closed on neural networks and artificial brains.

A psychology-led programme through the Psychology Academy for the Talented. A brain and eye dissection anchored anatomical structure directly to function, while seminars covered the use of AI in neuroscience and mental-health applications, and the ethical limits of psychological research.