People

Team Sjöström

Sjöström Lab Photo Sep 2025: Left to right - Jesper, Airi, Shawniya, Haley, Meghan, Elia, Sabine, Mackenzie, Lina, and Zoe — Hot pot at Liuyishou Fondue Du Montreal.

Sjöström Lab Photo Nov 2024: Back row - Jesper, Meghan, Sabine, and Haley. Middle row - Christina, Shawniya, Airi, Connie, and Aidan. Elia is behind Hovy. — from the lab in Montreal.

Sjöström Lab Photo Aug 2024: Left to right - Connie, Élia, Sabine, Linn, Haley, Christina, Airi, Tal, Jennifer, Nada, Hovy, and Jesper — celebrating Hovy's new position in Hong Kong as well as Christina and Amanda's successful PhD defences.

Alumni

Christina Chou — PhD student 2016 - 2024
Hovy Wong — Postdoc 2018 - 2024
Amanda McFarlan — PhD student 2016 - 2024
Aurore Thomazeau — Postdoc 2019 - 2024
Tal Klimenko — Volunteer, summer intern, & project student 2023 - 2024
James Auwn — Visiting undergraduate project student 2023
Farah Alem — Volunteer, summer intern, & project student 2021 - 2023
Vivian Wu — Volunteer & summer intern 2022 - 2023
Isabella Gomez — Visiting undergraduate student, Concordia Univ, 2021 - 2023
Sriya Veerapaneni — MITACS summer intern 2022
Connor O'Donnell — PhD Rotation Student 2022
Kiminou Boukoulou — Volunteer, summer intern, & project student 2020 - 2022
Claire Bokang Ko — Volunteer, summer intern, & project student 2020 - 2022
Tasha Liang — Volunteer, summer intern, & project student 2020 - 2022
Olivier Camiré — Postdoc 2020 - 2022
Nicole Cherepacha – Volunteer, summer intern, & project student 2019 - 2021
Maria Haddad - Volunteer, summer intern, & project student 2018 - 2021
Hannah Owens - Volunteer, summer intern, & project student 2018 - 2020
Chengxin Yu - Summer intern 2020
Libin Zhou — PhD student 2017 - 2020
Vicki Jones — MSc student 2019 - 2020
Elvis Cela — PhD student 2011 - 2019
Jennifer Brock — MSc student 2016 - 2019
Wouter Droogers — Visiting MSc student Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Julian Rossbroich — PhD rotation student 2018
Chain Weinerman — BSc project Sep 2018 - May 2019
Therese Abrahamsson — Postdoc 2012 - 2016
Jérôme Maheux — Postdoc July 2014 – Oct 2015
Arne V. Blackman – UCL PhD 2010 - 2014, UCL BSc project 2008 - 2010
Kate Buchanan — UCL postdoc 2008 - 2011
Andrew Chung — BSc project and volunteer March 2013 - Jan 2015
Rui P. Costa — Visiting UCL MSc student 2010, visiting UCL PhD 2010 - 2014, co-supervised with Dr. Mark van Rossum, Univ Edinburgh
Chris Cremer — Summer intern 2012
Dale Elgar — UCL postdoc 2009 - 2011
Alastair Garner — PhD rotation student 2017
Carla Kalkhoven — Visiting student 2012 - 2013
Elena Kutsarova — PhD rotation student 2013
Txomin Lalanne — McGill PhD student Sep 2011 - Dec 2015
Beatriz Mizusaki — Visiting PhD student Feb 2016 - Dec 2016, Institute of Physics, UFRGS, Brazil
Sally Si Ying Li — BSc project and volunteer Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Adamo Mancino — BSc project and volunteer Sep 2014 - Aug 2016
Alexandre Moreau — UCL postdoc 2010 - 2011
Julia Oyrer — UCL PhD student 2010 - 2015
Mic Rutledge — UCL summer intern 2009
Amrit Sampalli — BSc project and volunteer May 2016 - Aug 2017
Adam Tudor Jones — UCL MSc student 2008 - 2009
Taiji Wang — BSc project and volunteer Sep 2013 - Mar 2016
Gabrielle Pochiet — BSc volunteer Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Vanessa Wong — BSc volunteer Nov 2015 – May 2017
Mia Wu — BSc volunteer Jan 2016 – Dec 2016
Louis Huynh — BSc volunteer Feb 2015 – Dec 2015
Sasha Burwell — BSc volunteer Oct 2014 – May 2015
Eric Fineberg — BSc project Sep 2014 – May 2015
Erica Gregor — BSc volunteer Sep 2013 – May 2015
Li-Yuan Debby Chen — BSc volunteer Sep 2013 – May 2014

Past Lab Photos

Sjöström Lab Photo Oct 2023: Left to right - Linn, Shawniya, Connie, Jesper, Airi, Hovy, Haley, Sabine, Christina, Tal, and James — from Liuyishou Hotpot celebration of Hovy's big paper.

Sjöström Lab Photo May 2023: Left to right - Connie, Shawnia, Sabine, Hovy, Christina, Aurore, Airi, Haley, Jesper — from CAN 2023 meeting in Montreal, at Koa Lua Poké.

Sjöström Lab Photo Dec 2022: Taking a bottom-up approach - Jesper, Haley, Sabine, Christina, Shawniya, Amanda, Airi, Hovy — from the BRAIN Holiday Party, McGill Faculty Club.

Sjöström Lab Photo May 2022: Left to right - Jesper, Christina, Amanda, Hovy, Sabine, Airi, and Aurore with honorary lab members Romain and Jehane — from CAN 2022 meeting in Toronto.

Sjöström Lab March 2022: Jesper, Prof. Alanna Watt, Airi, Franziska (Suvrathan lab), Christina, Amanda, Olivier, Hovy, Prof. David Stellwagen, and Prof. Aparna Suvrathan — at McGill's Thompson House Montreal, Canada.

Sjöström Lab April 2020: Top row - Airi, Jesper, Amanda, Sabine; Middle row - Hovy, Libin, Maria, Aurore; Bottom row - Hannah, Vicki, Christina, Nicole — from Zoom Lab Meeting during COVID-19 pandemic.

Sjöström Lab September 2019: Front to back and left to right, Wouter, Hovy, Jesper, Aurore, Elvis, Amanda, Airi, Vicki, Christina — at McGill's Thompson House Montreal, Canada.

Sjöström Lab September 2018: Top row, Jesper, Airi, Jennifer, Libin; Bottom row, Christina, Elvis, Amanda, Hovy — on Mount Royal in Montreal, Canada.

Sjöström Lab January 2017: Alastair, Jennifer, Christina, Amanda, Jesper, and Elvis — Montreal, Canada.

Sjöström Lab May 2014: Therese, Julia, Txomin, Arne, Jesper, Elvis, and Rui — East Meon, England.

Sjöström Lab April 2013: Txomin, Elena, Jesper, Elvis, and Therese — Montreal, Canada.

Sjöström Lab April 2013: Therese, Jesper, Txomin, Elena, and Elvis — Montreal, Canada.