People 

Staff

Dr Joe McCleery

Dr Joe McCleery

Lecturer in Developmental Neuroscience

Dr McCleery is interested in typical and atypical social-emotional, social-communicative, and language development.

Dr Katerina Kantartzis

Dr Katerina Kantartzis

Research Associate

Katerina is currently working as coordinator for Dr Joe McCleery’s behavioural and EEG/ERP research on language development in toddlers at high risk of developing autism, funded by the UK-based charity organisation Autistica. She is also working with Dr Kita on further projects on infant’s perception and use of sound symbolism.

She was also involved in ...

Doctoral researchers

Antonios Christou

Antonios Christou

Doctoral Researcher

Title of PhD: Multisensory Processing in children with autism

Supervisor: Dr Joe McCleery

I am interested in multisensory processing in children with autism and typical developing children. This work involves running of experiments with familiar/unfamiliar audiovisual events using EEG/ERP techniques.

Natasha Elliott

Natasha Elliott

Doctoral Researcher

Title of PhD: (Developmental Neuroscience of Autism; full title to be confirmed)

Supervisor: Dr Joe McCleery 

Natasha is currently investigating effective intervention techniques for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders using clinical-behavioural measures, electroencephalography, event-related potentials, and ...

Sissy Stefanidou

Sissy Stefanidou

Doctoral Researcher

Title of PhD: The Neurodevelopmental Basis of Auditory Gesture Processing in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their younger siblings

Supervisor: Dr Joe McCleery

Sissy Stefanidou is currently undertaking doctoral research into the neural basis of language and social development in children with autism and their younger ...