Undergraduates
Kirsten Amber Lo
I am currently completing my third year in the Bachelor of Medical Sciences program at Western University with a specialization in Biochemistry. I work in the CoNCH Lab assisting Hana Abbas, Ph.D. with her research on memory and brain activity in pre- and post-surgery epilepsy patients. My broad research interests are in neurological and neurodegenerative disease, particularly their diagnosis and pharmacological treatment. In my spare time, I love kayaking, baking, and playing the violin.
Rahul Vij
I am currently entering my third year in the Bachelor of Medical Sciences program at Western University. I am assisting Bruno Mesquita and Mehrdad Kashefi in their work investigating concurrent auditory feedback and the impact of auditory cues on motor sequence learning and reaching tasks. In my free time, I enjoy swimming and watching F1.
Vibha Sarathy
I am entering my fourth year in the Bachelor of Medical Sciences program at Western University, with a minor in Classical Studies. Currently, I am assisting Dr. Manda Fischer in the CoNCH Lab with her work on memory guided attention. Specifically, the role of familiar voices (i.e. a family member, friend, or loved one) in enhancing speech comprehension in noisy environments. In my spare time, I enjoy painting, running, and reading.
Grace Malheiro
I am entering my fourth year in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program at Western University, with an Honours Specialization in Biology. In the CoNCH Lab, I am assisting Dr. Manda Fischer with her work focusing on the neural mechanisms underlying familiar-voice benefits and their relation to attention processing during speech comprehension. In my spare time, I enjoy playing tennis, going for runs and playing the piano.
Shveta Suresh
I am currently in my fourth year of the Honours Psychology program (Bachelor of Science) at Western University. For my honours thesis project at the CoNCH Lab, I am assisting Olivia Richards with her Ph.D in investigating mental fatigue in English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) learners. In my spare time, I love reading, baking, and swimming.
Eamon Boushy
I am a second year MedSci student here at Western. At the lab, I work as a research assistant, assisting in Bruno's Synthetic Voice Familiarity Study. In my free time, I enjoy spending quality time with my loved ones, listening to music, video games, & long drives.
Mahd Adnan
I am in my fourth year in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program with an Honours Specialization in Biology at Western University. In the CoNCH Lab, I am assisting Hana Abbas with her Eplink III research, which aims to improve surgical outcomes in epilepsy, as well as the Sequential Auditory Patterns study. In my free time I like to play tennis, work-out and try to hit my protein goal for the day.
Xinyue Zhang
I am a currently in my second year of medical science program. In the lab, I am assistant with Ali Tafakkor for fMRI data analysis. I enjoy anime and some video game in my free time.
