{"id":78,"date":"2025-07-30T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:33:07","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meet the team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dr Sana Hannan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sana joined Lancaster University in September 2023 as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Neuroscience, where she leads the NEON Lab. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from UCL (2019) and a Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSc) degree from the University of Birmingham (2014). Prior to establishing the NEON Lab, Sana held postdoctoral research fellow positions at UCL and the Montreal Neurological Institute in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Samantha-Jo Hollings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Technician<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sammy joined the NEON Lab in August 2025 as a Research Technician, and supports our experimental studies investigating how sleep-related brain activity contributes to memory processing. She holds a MSc in Applied Neuropsychology from the University of Bristol (2022) and a BSc in Psychology from Lancaster University (2020). Sammy has also worked as a Researcher at Galen Research.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Leanna Keeble<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD Student<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leanna joined the NEON Lab as a PhD student in October 2024. Her project focuses on understanding the role of sleep architecture in offline memory processing in the human brain, using EEG and behavioural testing. Leanna holds a MSc in Psychological Research Methods (2024) and a BSc in Psychology (2022) from Lancaster University.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lottie Roscoe-Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSci Project Student<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lottie is a fourth-year MSci Biology student. She first joined the NEON Lab in 2025 to complete her third-year dissertation project on intracranial EEG in patients with epilepsy, followed by a summer internship sponsored by Defying Dementia. She has now returned to the lab for her MSci research project, where she is investigating the relationship between sleep oscillations and procedural memory.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Elen Jones<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UG Research Assistant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elen has been working in the NEON Lab since January 2026 as an undergraduate Research Assistant through the Psychology Employability Programme, supporting our experimental studies on sleep and memory. She is currently a third-year MSci Natural Sciences student at Lancaster University.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Miya Di Leva<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PG Research Assistant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miya joined the NEON Lab in October 2026 as a postgraduate Research Assistant through the Psychology Employability Programme, supporting our experimental studies on sleep and memory. She is currently completing her MSc in Child Mental Health and holds a BSc in Psychology (2026) from Lancaster University.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Laila Aspin<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UG Research Assistant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laila has been working in the NEON Lab since October 2026 as an undergraduate Research Assistant through the Psychology Employability Programme, supporting our experimental studies on sleep and memory. She is currently a third-year BSc Psychology student at Lancaster University.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Maddy Gray<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UG Research Assistant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maddy has been working in the NEON Lab since October 2026 as an undergraduate Research Assistant through the Psychology Employability Programme, supporting our experimental studies on sleep and memory. She is currently a second-year BSc Psychology student at Lancaster University.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alumni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Sofia Antoniazzi, BSc Project Student (2024-25) & MRes Student (2025-26)<\/strong><\/mark><\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Summer Rickard, UG Research Assistant (2025-26)<\/strong><\/mark><\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Raina Hill, UG Research Assistant (2026)<\/strong><\/mark><\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Andrea Mosqueda-Jolly, UG Research Assistant (2025)<\/strong><\/mark><\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Joan Kolo, Summer Research Intern (BLS; 2024)<\/strong><\/mark><\/mark><\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Tamzin Holden, MSci Project Student (2023-24)<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Laura Yianni, MSci Project Student (2023-24)<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Meet the team Dr Sana Hannan Principal Investigator Samantha-Jo Hollings Research Technician Leanna Keeble PhD Student Lottie Roscoe-Lee MSci Project Student Elen Jones UG Research Assistant Miya Di Leva PG Research Assistant Laila Aspin UG Research Assistant Maddy Gray UG Research Assistant Alumni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1929,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":140,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/neonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}