About Me

I am a cognitive neuroscientist interested in understanding how beliefs about the world and our motivation to explore it, emerge from the ways in which we learn. 

I am funded by a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship and carry out my research at the University of Oxford in the UK and Princeton University in the USA. Using a mixture of interactive online games, computational modelling, neuroimaging, behavioural experiments, field studies, survey data and economic theory, I try to understand the decisions we make and the underlying neurobiology that gives rise to them. 

I tutor undergraduates on information processing and mental wellbeing and frequently guest lecture in neuroeconomics at University College London (UCL). I am a former UCL IMPACT scholar in Experimental Psychology at the Affective Brain Lab and have written about my research for Aeon Magazine, The Conversation and NBC among others (see here for publications).