Main Focus
Aversive learning and anxiety
Learning and decision-making under uncertainty
Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
2015 - 2019: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
PhD in Clinical Neurosciences - Computational modelling of human aversive learning
incl 4 month research stay in Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
2012 - 2013: California Institute of Technology, USA
Visiting student researcher
2010 - 2012 and 2013 - 2014: Aberystwyth University, Wales
BScEcon Marketing and Psychology (First Class Honours Degree)
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WORK EXPERIENCE
2019 - present: Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Role: Post-doctoral scientist
Description: Leading research projects in cognitive computational neuroscience, dissemination, supervision
2014 - 2015: University of Oxford, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Centre (Research Assistant - Bishop Lab)
2015 - Examining the influences of anxiety disorders on learning during decision making, an eye-tracking and fMRI study
2014 - Dissociating neural basis of Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Specific Phobia in attention and affective processing
2013 - 2014: University of Bangor (Visiting Researcher - BULET Lab)
2013 - 2014: EEG evidence for counterfactual outcome processing in the human brain, own project done in collaboration with Prof. Guillaume Thierry
2013 - 2014: Examining how second-language feedback influences gambling behaviour and scalp-recorded feedback-related negativity