About Me

I am an academic and behavioural scientist interested in understanding how beliefs about the world and our motivation to explore it, emerge from the ways in which we learn. 

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 frequently guest lecture in decision making at University College London (UCL) and sit on the Editorial Board of the journal Nature Communications Psychology. I am a former Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow and UCL IMPACT scholar in Experimental Psychology at the Affective Brain Lab. I have written about my research for Aeon Magazine, The Conversation and NBC among others (see here for publications).