My background is in experimental psychology with a focus on computational modelling and behavioural experiments. After completing my PhD at Cardiff University with Ulrike Hahn, Simon Rushton and Paul Warren, I took up a post-doc at Bristol University. At Bristol I was part of a large interdisciplinary research group on decision-making, working primarily with Iain Gilchrist and Casimir Ludwig with a focus on low-level decision-making. Here, I picked up fMRI and state-of-the-art eye-tracking methods and broadened my modelling to include stochastic accumulator models. I left Bristol to take up a British Academy Fellowship at Oxford University, where I continued to expand modeling- (e.g., reinforcement learning) and fMRI analyses skills (multivariate approaches, including classification and representational similarity analysis).
Posts
2018-present Lecturer (US: Assistant Professor)
City, University of London.
2015-2018
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Oxford, UK.
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2012-2015
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Research Associate
University of
Bristol, UK.
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2012 |
PhD Psychology (No corrections), Title: The optimality of perception and cognition. Cardiff University, UK.
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2008 |
MSc Social Science Research Methods (Distinction), Cardiff University, UK.
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2007 |
BA Psychology (First-Class Honours), Cardiff University, UK. |
Grants & Awards
2015
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (~£300 000):
Decision-making across domains (D-MAD)
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2014
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British Psychological Society's national Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology 2013
Elisabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research (co-written; formally post-doc). Adaptive nudge to optimise decision-making in the intensive care unit (£18 757).
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2013
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School of Psychology Haydn Ellis Award (Cardiff) for outstanding dissertation (Best PhD).
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2007
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Best Final Year Research Project (conjunction
fallacy).
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British Psychological Society’s Cardiff University Dissertation
Prize (optic flow).
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British Psychological Society’s
Cardiff University Undergraduate Award (highest overall degree mark). |
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