Biography

I am an affective neuroscientist and psychologist at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN). My research is aimed at identifying new targets for interventions that prevent and treat mental health problems.
During my PhD and postdoc at the University of Cambridge, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit I focused on how cognitive abilities interact with emotions to give rise to good or poor mental health, especially depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. Since joining the ICN Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group as a Sir Henry Wellcome fellow I have extended my work to understand how these processes develop across the lifespan.