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CURRICULUM VITAE

Academic Positions

Aug 2019 - present

Lecturer

Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London

Oct 2018 - Jul 2019

Postdoctoral Researcher

Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles,

École Normale Supérieure, PSL University

PI: Patrick Haggard, Funding: Chaire Blaise Pascal, Fondation ENS

Oct 2016 - Sep 2018

Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, PSL University

Mentor: Valérian Chambon

Apr - Oct 2016

Postdoctoral Researcher

Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles

PI: Axel Cleeremans, Funding: ERC Advanced Grant

Jan - Jun 2015

Visiting Researcher, Bogue Research Fellowship

Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York

Mentor: Janet Metcalfe

Education

2016

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London

Supervisor: Patrick Haggard

Thesis Title: “Prospective Sense of Agency: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms”

PhD Cognitive Neuroscience

2012

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London

Supervisor: Patrick Haggard

MSc Cognitive Neuroscience (Distinction)

2010

London South Bank University

Supervisors: Jennifer Bizley (University of Oxford), Hillary Katz (LSBU)

BSc (Hons) Psychology (First Class)

Grants, Fellowships & Awards

2019

ESRC New Investigator Grant, PI: £292,118 (2021-2022)

A Computational Approach to Understanding Maladaptive Cognition in Depression

2017

Experimental Psychology Society travel grant - Belfast meeting (£367)

2016

Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 50,000€ (2016-2018)

Sense of Agency and Metacognition of Action

2016

FRS-FNRS travel grant - BACN, Budapest (€242)

2016

Guarantors of Brain travel grant - ASSC, Buenos Aires (£800)

2016

Psychonomic Society’s accommodation award - International Meeting, Granada

2015

UCL SLMS Graduate Student Funding Award - Psychonomic Society, Chicago (£536)

2014

Bogue Research Fellowship, £6859 (2015)

2014

UCL (PALS Division) Sully Scholarship (best PhD Upgrade) for 2013/14 (£350)

2013

Guarantors of Brain travel grant - IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, Leipzig (£500)

2010

Head of Department Prize for Best 2nd Year Student in BSc (Hons) Psychology, LSBU

2009

Guarantors of Brain bursary - Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford

Supervision & Teaching

2020

Supervision of internship by visiting MSc student from ENS (Feb-Jun), RHUL

2020

3 lectures & course co-ordinator, Applied Neuroscience module, MSci/MSc, RHUL

2019

2 lectures, Neuroscience of Emotion & Decision-Making module, MSci/MSc, RHUL

2019 - 2020

Co-supervision of MSc Brain and Mind Sciences student, UCL

2019 - 2020

Supervision of 2 MSci Psychology student projects, RHUL

2019

Guest lecture: EEG: overview of the methods and practical uses, MSc in Engineering, Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences (AgroParisTech)

2019

Tutor for two journal clubs on metacognition, Brain in Action module, BSc Year 3/MSc, UCL

2019

Guest lecture: Sense of Agency, M2 CogMaster, ENS

2019

Supervision of Year 2 BSc student, PSL

2018 - 2019

Co-supervision of M2 CogMaster student, ENS

2018

Guest lecture: Sense of Agency, M2 CogMaster, ENS

2017

Guest lecture: Sense of Agency, Action, decision and volition module, Year 2 Cognitive Science Master (M2 CogMaster), ENS

2015

Supervision and mentoring of 2 undergraduate research assistants, who assisted with behavioural data collection, Columbia University

2014

Supervision and mentoring of 2 undergraduate students who assisted with behavioural and EEG data collection, UCL

2013 - 2014

Co-supervision of MSc Cognitive and Decision Sciences student, UCL

2013

Teaching Assistant in computer labs (Matlab and Cogent, SPM for fMRI), Neuroimaging module, MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL

Professional Service

Member of Women in Cognitive Science, and co-organiser of Speed Mentoring Session at ICPS 2019, Paris.
Elected member of the Experimental Psychology Society, 2019.
Founder and chair of the DEC Equality & Diversity steering committee, ENS, 2018.
Registered on the European Commission independent expert database, 2018.
Co-organiser of the intra-departmental DEC Lunch seminar series, ENS, 2018.
Associate Faculty Member to Patrick Haggard at Faculty of 1000, 2013.
Student Representative for the MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, 2011-2012.
Student Representative for the BSc Psychology, LSBU, 2008-2010.
Treasurer of the Psychology Society at LSBU, 2008-2009.
Committee Member of the Psychology Society at University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), 2007-2008.
Student Representative for the BSc Forensic Psychology, UCLan, 2007-2008.
Peer Review for: Acta Psychologica; Attention, Perception & Psychophysics; Brain and Cognition; Cerebral Cortex; Cognition; Consciousness and Cognition; Experimental Brain Research; Experimental Psychology; Helyon; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Mind & Language; Movement Disorders; Philosophical Psychology; PLOS One; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Psychological Research; Psychological Review; Scientific Reports. (Full details at Publons)