Team Members

Diverse group from around the world!

In my Research Group at NTNU, we are interested in discovering why some older adults show mood disorders to improve prevention and treatment for this age population. We aim to understand neurological, behavioral, and physiological risk and protective factors playing a role in developing mood disorders in ging. We use behavioral, neuroimaging, and physiological methods

Shuer Ye

PhD student 2022-

Shuer has an engineering background and graduated with a clinical neuroscience degree in his Master's degree. He joined the team in October 2021 and currently working on resilience and age-related brain changes among the elderly population. He is mainly interested in understanding the temporal dynamics of brain networks and their role in emotional processing. He is originally from China.

Arjun Dave

PhD student 2023-

Arjun is a PhD student who joined the lab in April 2023 focusing on the role of locus coeruleus and social cognitive functions in aging. He has worked on cognitive functions and IQ in aged populations using a large-scale dataset during his Master's from Birmingham University. He is originally from India.

Xiaoran Gao

PhD student 2023-

Xiaoran is a PhD student from China and is interested in emotional processes in healthy and clinical populations. She did her studies in China and after a short period in Spain joined the lab in March 2023.

Leona Rahel Bätz

PhD student 2024 -

Leona is a research assistant interested in aging and emotional processes. Particularly she is interested in investigating the integration and segregation of brain networks in late adulthood and their relations to social and emotional processes. She is originally from Germany and is currently involved in the Master of Neuroscience Program at NTNU.

Sara Sareban Nejad

Master student 2024-2025

Sara is a second-year Master's student interested in large-scale networks and their association with mental well-being. She investigates how topological properties of networks change with age.

Camila Panduro Jensen

Master student 2024-2025

Jasper is a second-year Master's student who is investigating the role of LC and the arousal system during movie-watching fMRI. She has a background in animal studies and uses her expertise to link between human and animal models of LC activity.

Anna Melby

Master student 2024-2025

Jasper is a second-year Master's student who is investigating the role of the amygdala and its connection with the prefrontal cortex during ambiguity processing and changes with age.

Xiaqing Lan

Research assistant 2023 -

Lan has a Master's degree in clinical neuroscience and has extensive experience in image analyses and performing experiments in the scanner. She is working on how the activity of resting states could predict the task's activity, among many other analyses she does in the lab.

Angus Wilson

Lab technician 2024

Angus has a Master of Neuroscience degree from NTNU and is interested in analytical models related to the brain and body. He is currently working on examining the link between arousal states from the eye tracker data and brain data across ages.