Anna Kuppuswamy

Principal Investigator

Anna graduated from Madras Medical College, India as a physiotherapist and obtained a masters from UCL and PhD from Imperial College London in Neuroscience. After a brief stint at the National Institutes of Health, USA in Prof Leo Cohen’s lab, she moved back to the UK to study post-stroke fatigue based at Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, UCL. In 2016 she started her lab with a Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. In 2020 she was appointed Principal Research Fellow at Institute of Neurology. Her principal research interests are - investigating disease independent mechanisms of chronic pathological fatigue, primarily focusing on sensorimotor processing.

Amber Bonser

PhD Student

Amber graduated from The University of York in 2017 with a BSc in Psychology and spent several years working in neurorehabilitation with brain injury survivors. She returned to The University of York and completed her MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience before working as a Research Project Coordinator from 2022-2025, investigating numerical cognition across adolescent development. Amber has a strong interest in neurorehabilitation and using research to improve outcomes for brain injury survivors. Her current PhD aims to develop a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms that drive chronic pathological fatigue. She joined the lab in 2024 as a PhD student.