Emily Nurden
CDT Student
Emily completed an integrated master’s degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Exeter in 2025. Her master’s project investigated the neonatal brain’s response to noxious stimuli using topographical analysis of EEG data. In this work she developed a novel time-resolved framework to characterise how babies’ brains evolve during recovery from a blood test.
In 2024, Emily took part in the Summer Research Program at EPFL. Working in the Laboratory of Psychophysics, she explored whether current deep neural networks align with human performance in visual reasoning tasks involving continuity grouping, highlighting discrepancies between model and human visual perception.
Outside of academia, Emily can often be found in a cafe with a good coffee, or outdoors taking part in a variety of sports.