Bio

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Prof Gerhard Jocham’s Biological Psychology of Decision-Making group at the Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany, where I research the psychophysiological basis of adaptive behaviours, including instrumental learning, foraging, and near-threshold perceptual decisions.

Previously, I was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig, Germany), working at Prof Arno Villringer’s group, where I studied the functional involvement or cardiac frequency and its neural signatures in instrumental learning.

Prior to this position, I completed my doctoral studies at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science (previously, the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, UK). Supervised by Dr Ryan Scott, Prof Anil Seth, and Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn, I investigated the role of body, action, and consciousness in our interactions with the world – with a specific focus on instrumental behaviour.

Before my PhD, I spent some time as a research assistant at Dr John Michael’s group at the Mind and Action Research Centre, University of Warwick (UK), as well as as a behavioural science consultant, working on facilitating understanding and decisions in real-world settings. I completed my MSc at University College London (UK) in 2015, after working with Dr Eva Krumhuber on emotion and their expressions in the face. I obtained my BSc from St Mary’s University (London, UK), in 2014.

Affiliations

2021-present – Postdoctoral Fellow – Biological Psychology of Decision Making -Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany

2021 – Visiting Fellow – Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI-CBS), Leipzig, Germany

2017-2020 – Doctoral Researcher – Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, UK

2017 – Research Assistant – Mind and Action Research Centre, University of Warwick, UK

2014-2015 – MSc Social Cognition with Cognitive Neuroscience – University College London, UK

2011-2014 – BSc Psychology – St Mary’s University, London, UK