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

Leona Rahel Bätz

PhD student 2024 -

Leona is a PhD student 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.

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Hazim Hussein

PhD student 2025 -

Hazim is a PhD student in the lab, originally from Egypt. He is a medical doctor who is interested in studying late-life depression andthe neuromodulatory system using 7T MRI.

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.

Camila Panduro Jensen

Lab Technician 2025 -

Camilla is interested in understanding the role of neuromodulatory systems and is currently involved in multiple projects in the lab, from the LC framework in social perception to the depression project.

Junjie Cui

PhD student 2026-

Hazim is a PhD student in the lab, originally from China. With her engineering background, she is interested in exploring individual variabilities of LC on brain networks in aging.

Buse Hadzhisadak

Research assistant 2026

Buse did her Master's thesis in the lab on individual variabilities in the brain networks in aging and currently expanding this line of work into clinical popualtion