Sandrine Thuret

Professor Sandrine Thuret is a leading academic at King's College London, serving as Professor of Neuroscience and Co-Head of the Basic & Clinical Neuroscience Department. She leads the Adult Neurogenesis & Mental Health Laboratory, focusing on environmental and molecular mechanisms of hippocampal neurogenesis in health and disease. Her research explores the impact of diet, exercise, and diseases like Alzheimer's on neurogenesis, aiming to develop interventions for cognitive and mood disorders. She holds leadership roles, including Chair of the King’s Research Degrees Examination Board and the MSc Neuroscience Programme Board.

Education: PhD in Neuroscience from Heidelberg University (2002), MSc in Aging Biology (1998), and BSc in Applied Biology (1994).

Research Interests: Neurogenesis regulation, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, diet-exercise interactions, and translational neuroscience. Her lab uses in vivo/in vitro models to study neurogenesis’s role in cognition and mood.

Key Contributions: Over 116 publications, including seminal works on neurogenesis modulation by lifestyle factors. Leads projects on psilocybin’s impact on depression and gut-microbiota-cognition links. Awards include the Santander Research Visit Award (2011).

Teaching & Mentorship: Supervises 5 PhD and up to 5 annual MSc/BSc students. Module leader for 'Neural Stem Cells and Nervous System Repair'.