Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences
The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is an interdisciplinary community of researchers who study the behaviour of human beings and other animals from cellular, neural, cognitive and evolutionary perspectives. The Institute brings together faculty members, research staff and students from the Schools of Biology, Psychology & Neuroscience, Medicine, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics and Physics & Astronomy, with the aim of fostering progress at interfaces of the behavioural and neural sciences.
To find out more about research conducted in IBANS see the profile of our principal investigators.
Committee Members
Paolo Annibale
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Juliana Bowles
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Matthew Broadhead
ECR Rep Psychology and Neuroscience
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Susanna Galea-Singer
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Natalie Pilakouta
Academic Rep Biology
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Frances Quirk
NHS Fife
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Erin Robbins
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Javier Tello
Academic Rep Medicine
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Recent News
Announcement: IBANS Fellowships for St Andrews Biophotonics Summer School 2025
IBANS and the Centre for Biophotonics are collaborating to foster interdisciplinary research and support the next generation of scientists. As part of this collaboration, the Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences (IBANS) is offering two fellowships of £350 each...
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IBANS Burns Social, Feb 25th, 2023
IBANS members from different schools came together for "IBANS Burns Social and Networking event" for 2023’s Burns Night. The event was organized to be an informal interdisciplinary gathering where researchers of different backgrounds and expertise were able to come...
Institute holds networking event with partners at University of Bonn
The Institute held an online networking event with key institutional partner the University of Bonn on 28 September 2023. The meeting was organised by IBANS Co-Director Dr Silvia Paracchini (St Andrews School of Medicine), IBANS Early Career Researcher Representative...