University Education:
2004-2007
BSc Psychology (First Class), University College London
Highly commended by Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences for outstanding academic achievement
2007-2008
MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology (Distinction), University College London
2008-2011
PhD in Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London.
"Visuomotor Correspondence in Imitation and Self-Recognition" pdf
Supervised by Cecilia Heyes (University of Oxford) and Alan Johnston (UCL); examined by David Shanks (UCL) and Antonia Hamilton (University of Nottingham)
Positions Held:
February 2012 - August 2013
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, City University London
August 2013 - August 2017
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, City University London
September 2017 - present
Reader in Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London
February 2018 - present
Honorary Research Fellow, University of York
Awards and honours:
2013 Identified as an ESRC Future Research Leader
2014 Awarded the British Academy's Wiley Prize in Psychology
2015 Identified as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science
2018 Awarded the Twenty-Sixth Prize Lecture by the Experimental Psychology Society
2018 Awarded the Seventeenth Elizabeth Warrington Prize by the British Neuropsychological Society
Major funding awards:
2013 ESRC Future Research Leaders grant (£246,166)
2017 ERC Starting Grant (1.5m euros)
Other funding awards:
2007 ESRC 3+1 Doctoral Studentship award (£82,360)
2007 Summer internship at the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (£3,200)
2010 Travel award from UCL Graduate School (£420)
2012 Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship on behalf of Miss Isabel Choo (£1,520)
2012 City University Pump Priming award (£4,980)
2013 Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship on behalf of Miss Annie Gaule (£1,520)
2013 Award from City Psychology Dept Research Committee (£1,320)
2014 Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship on behalf of Miss Jennifer Murphy (£2,000)
Notable talks
2010 Talk given at Annual Symposium on Associative Learning, Gregynog
2011 Talk given at Annual Symposium on Associative Learning, Gregynog
2012 Talk given at the Bristol Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society
2014 Talk given at MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
2014 Talk given at ESRC workshop on Social Cognition (University of Surrey)
2015 Talk given to the House of Lords Hansard: "Face Recognition"
2016 Talk given at UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
2017 Talk given at EPS workshop on Social Perception (University of Reading)
2017 Talk given at Nottingham University, Department of Psychology Weekly Seminar Series
2018 Talk given at Birkbeck College, Department of Psychology Weekly Seminar Series
Peer Review:
Journals
Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, Acta Psychologica, Psychological Science, Psychological Research, Biology Letters, Journal of Vision, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Autism Research, Current Biology, Developmental Science, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, PLoS One, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Psychological Medicine, Neuroscience Letters, Attention Perception & Psychophysics, Vision Research, Cognition, Scientific Reports, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Journal of Neuroscience, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Journal of Neurophysiology, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Other
ESRC, MRC, BBSRC, Leverhulme Trust
Public Engagement in Science:
Interviewed by various online and print media regarding imitation and mirror neurons (links)
Radio interviews given to BBC Radio Scotland; BBC Radio 4; TalkSport radio; Bavarian Broadcasting
