About

Dr Pakravan is a Consultant Specialist in Musculoskeletal, Sport and Exercise Medicine, a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM), and a Visiting Senior Fellow in Sport and Exercise Medicine at University of Suffolk. Amir is the Chair of the Fighting Physical Inactivity Committee of the European College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ECOSEP) and represents ECOSEP in World Health Organisation’s European network for Health Enhancing Physical Activity (WHO-HEPA Europe).

Experience

He has extensive experience of work in elite sports including in the London Olympic and Paralympic games, and with Football Association, England and GB Hockey, Athletics, Martial arts, and Premier League Football.

Dr Pakravan promotes health enhancing Physical Activity in his clinical practice, and has been a lecturer, speaker and keynote speaker on different aspects of Sport and Exercise Medicine at various national and international meetings and congresses.

About

Vincent Walsh is Professor of Human Brain Research at University College London and has been a leading researcher in TMS for over 20 years. He has published over 300 scientific papers, wrote the first book on TMS in Cognition and was seconded to the Magstim Company (the world’s first and leading manufacturer of TMS machines) to help develop the machines now used for the treatment of depression and anxiety.

Experience

He works widely with public groups and has served on committees for the Medical Research Council, The Royal Society, The Leverhulme Trust and The European Commission.

He also works in performance psychology and decision making under pressure where past and present clients include Fulham FC, England Rugby, The Royal Yachting Ass’n, BP, Google, The British Sailing Team, English Institute of Sport, BBC, and CIPD.

About

Gabija has completed her PhD at UCL on neuronal mechanisms of spatial navigation, prior to that she has done research on Parkinson's disease and vision. Last few years Gabija has been mainly focusing on neuroscience seminars to organizations and the general public and individual consultations. Currently, Gabija is writing her first book.

Experience

Gabija delivers neuroscience seminars on various topics to the general public, CPD training workshops for coaches and businesses, banks (AIB, Swed Bank, Danske Bank, Lloys), consulting and management firms (Coachmatch, CIPD, Jaluch), Universities (UCL, VU), IT firms (ABC Data Lietuva, BMK), schools (over 15 schools in London), teacher and school principal training programs and other organizations (WPO, Welsh Government, Tegra State, Lithuanian Railways, ASTREA etc.).

About

Javid is an entrepreneur, FA coach and PhD researcher who specialises in cognitive testing and training in the areas of sport, education and business.

Experience

He has worked with Crystal Palace, Fulham, West Ham, Football Lab and the Iranian National Team. He is experienced in software design and development of psychological tests.

About

Sophie is a researcher into the cognition of team building and well-being. She completed her Masters in Psychology in London.

Experience

Sophie worked with M&T Enterprises as a team building coach and joined London Cognition to broaden our horizons to working with groups as well as individual in the corporate sector.

About

Beth completed her PhD from the Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at UCL, prior to which she undertook a Masters at Cambridge University in Biological Sciences. Her research explores the neural mechanisms supporting higher order cognition, such as working memory, decision making and reasoning, with the aim of understanding how the brain exerts cognitive control over behaviour. Beth currently works as a Lecturer on the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience BSc at the University of Westminster.

Experience

Beth has extensive experience applying insights from neuroscience to optimise performance under pressure and has worked with elite athletes from the British Olympic Team, British Sailing Team and Dunlop Sport. She has published two volumes of Progress In Brain Research on Sport and the Brain: Exploring the Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning. She is currently collaborating with the Better Buying Laboratory at World Resources Institute to investigate how decision making psychology can be applied to promote sustainable dietary behaviour.