The REBEL Team

Meet the brilliant minds that form the Reality Bending Lab.

Principal Investigator

Dominique Makowski

Lecturer in Psychology

PhD Students

Ana Neves

Interoception and the Sense of Reality_{^{University of Sussex}}

Catriona Osborn Moar

Complexity_{^{University of Sussex}}

Rob Dickinson

Misinformation_{^{University of Sussex}}

Research Assistants

Oliver Collins

Placement Student_{^{University of Sussex}}

Emma Benn

Placement Student_{^{University of Sussex}}

Karla Wall

Research Assistant_{^{University of Sussex}}

Maisie Bennett

Placement Student_{^{University of Sussex}}

Final Year Students

Sam Marine

Close Collaborators

Marco Sperduti

Assistant Professor_{^{University Roma Tor Vergata
Italy}}

Annabel Chen

Professor_{^{Nanyang Technological University
Singapore}}

Panos Mavros

Assistant Professor_{^{Telecom Paris
France}}

Consultants

Aang

Fully Realized Avatar

Dr Strange

Sorcerer Supreme

Gandalf

Wizard

Mr Anderson

The One

Yoda

Jedi Master

Memories

2025 - ASSC in Crete (Ana Neves and Sussex PhD students)

2025 - Sunfest (summer solstice celebration)

2025 - Singapore (with Marco Sperduti, Annabel Chen, Ryutaro Uchiyama)

2024 - Theodoros Karapanagiotidis' birthday party

2024 - Sussex Centre for Consciousness Studies launch (Rebel team and associates)

2024 - Rome, Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences Conference (Ana, Dom and Marco Sperduti)

2024 - Sunfest (summer solstice celebration)

2024 - Beta-testing the Illusion Card Game (Dom, Ana Neves and friends)

2024 - Sussex Neuroscience Winter Party

2024 - Christmas Dinner (Dom, Ana and Emma)

2024 - Pulling the Christmas crackers (Ana and Emma)

2024 - Workshop on physiological signals at the University of Basel (Dom and Basel PhD students)

2023 - Sunfest (summer solstice celebration)

2023 - OHBM Montréal: Party (Danielle Benesch, Stephanie Kirk, and Dom)

2023 - OHBM Montréal: Panel with Dom and the PhysioPy team

2023 - ESCOP Porto: Men in Black (Dom and Marco Sperduti)

2023 - OHBM Montréal: Dom exposing 'NeuropsyXart'

2022 - Singapore, Outdoor work sesh (An Shu, Stephanie, Max and Dom)

2022 - EEG test (Max and Stephanie)

2022 - OHBM, Glasgow (An Shu and Dom)

2021 - Thermal camera fun (Zen)

2021 - Thermal camera fun (Tam and Zen)

2021 - Hard at work (An Shu, Zen and Tam)

2021 - Resting-state synchronized physio recording (Zen and Tam)

2019 - Dom testing TMS on Tam

Alumni

For Auld Lang Syne

Stephanie Kirk

Research Assistant (2022-24)

Tam Pham

Research Assistant (2019-22)_{Now: PhD Student (Macquarie)}

An-Shu Te

Research Assistant (2021-23)_{Now: Clinical Psychologist}

Zen J. Lau

Research Assistant (2020-22)_{Now: Clinical Neuropsychologist}

Wilson Lim

Research Associate (2022-24)_{Now: PhD Student (UCL)}

Zi Liang Ngoi

Research Assistant (2022-23)_{Current: Research Assistant (Singapore)}