Dr. Alex Estudillo, Bournemouth University
Alex completed his PhD at the University of Kent, investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in the acquisition of self-face representations. His current research examines how our visual system provide us with information about the world that we can use to recognize and interact with objects, environments and people. He is interested in visual perception from the most basic level (e.g., how we discriminate between different shapes) to the most complex level (e.g., face and object recognition).
Dr. Janice Attard-Johnson, Bournemouth University
Janice completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of Malta, and after a period of working in Early Years intervention for children with ASD, received government funding to complete an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Kent. She received further funding to complete a PhD exploring the use of eye-movements and pupillary responses in person perception. Janice is now researching facial age perception, and its relationship to facial identity perception.
Dr. Emma Portch, Bournemouth University
Emma is a Senior Lecturer in the Psychology Department at Bournemouth University. Her research focuses on individual differences in face recognition, exploring both the abilities and limitations of those with developmental prosopagnosia through to super-recognisers. She also works with facial composites (digital likenesses that are created by witnesses and / or victims of crime to resemble perpetrators), assessing how their recognition can be improved.
Dr. Bryan Leong, Bournemouth University
Bryan completed his BSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, followed by a PhD in Psychology, at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. His PhD examined the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in face recognition ability, in both typical participants and those with prosopagnosia). He is currently a Lecturer in Psychology at Bournemouth University where he researches the neural, neuropsychological, and cultural aspects of face and object processing. Bryan is particularly interested in how low-level visual and higher-level cognitive processes contribute to perception and memory.
Dr. Rachel Bennetts, Brunel University of London
Rachel completed her undergraduate and honours degrees at Macquarie University in Australia, and her PhD at the University of Western Sydney. Subsequently, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Bournemouth University with Sarah, and is now a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Brunel University of London. Her research examines individual differences in face recognition, the development of face recognition in children and adolescents, and strategies to improve face recognition.
Dr. Ebony Murray, University of Gloucestershire
Ebony competed her BSc and MSc at Bournemouth University before going on to complete her PhD, titled “Recharacterising Face Recognition Deficits in Developmental Prosopagnosia”, under the supervision of Sarah. Ebony is now a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire, and continues to collaborate with the team at Bournemouth University. Her research focuses on the identification of face recognition impairments across the lifespan and the methods that are currently used to do so.
Prosopagnosia Research at Bournemouth University 