Elliot is a Research Assistant in the Centre for Affective Disorders at King’s College London, where he joined in November 2019. His work focuses on clinical trials of novel pharmacological interventions and neuromodulation treatments for affective disorders, with a particular emphasis on major depression, in addition to bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders.

Alongside his research role, Elliot is undertaking a PhD in Psychological Medicine investigating transcranial direct current stimulation for major depressive episodes in adults. His areas of expertise include cognitive neuroscience, affective disorders, and the management of randomised clinical trials. He also supports participant recruitment, undertakes blinded clinical assessments, conducts data analysis in Python and R, and conducts laboratory processing of biological samples (primarily blood).

Prior to joining King’s, Elliot worked as a research assistant at Oxford. He holds an MScRes in Cognitive Neuroscience and Human Neuroimaging from the University of Sheffield, awarded with Distinction, and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, awarded with First Class Honours. In 2018, he received a Masters Excellence Scholarship worth £10,000 from the University of Sheffield. In 2025, he was awarded funding through the Mental Health Mission Capacity and Development programme to undertake a part-time PhD alongside his full-time research post.

Research Interests

Elliot’s research interests focus on the development, evaluation, and delivery of innovative treatments for affective disorders. His work spans all manner of treatments, from antidepressant medications, to brain stimulation, to psychological therapies. He is particularly interested in the use of machine learning approaches to better understand which patients respond to which treatments and why. He also has an interest in psychometrics, especially the structure and validity of psychiatric outcome measures, how well they capture the constructs they are intended to assess, and how these measures might be improved.

Research Groups 

Centre for Affective Disorders