As a cognitive and computational scientist I am interested in developing better theories of the brain and behavioural basis of social interaction, how these might be used to explain and treat psychiatric and neurological disorders, and improve artificial systems.

My group develops mathematical models and empirical experiments to study complex cognitive processes such as social observation and decision-making, hierarchical cognition, information generalisation, and social contagion. 

I currently hold an appointment at the Centre for AI and Machine Learning (AU) as a Strategic Senior Research Fellow and am an Associate Professor at King’s College London (UK) where I lead the Social Computation and Representation (SoCR) lab. I am also an adjunct senior research fellow at the University of Western Australia (UWA). I am part of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence as a FENS-Kavli Scholar and the founder & CEO of Hypatia – a focused research organisation creating tools to improve the interpretability of biological and synthetic data.

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Research Opportunities

PhD Students. I am happy to discuss potential PhD opportunities in my lab. I am looking for candidates with a degree/experience in Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science/Engineering or Maths/Statistics. Interest in open-source programming is needed, but loads of prior experience isn’t essential; I am happy to support your development with this. Please feel free to contact me by email. Please include a brief description of your research interests and your CV.

Postdoctoral Associates. I am also happy to discuss opportunities for joining the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Please feel free to get in contact to discuss more. 

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My work and public outreach have been funded and recognised by several major funding and scientific bodies such as the British Academy, Leverhulme Foundation, Wellcome Trust, British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP), Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS), and Medical Research Council (MRC), Federation of European Neurosciences (FENS) and the Kavli Foundation.

Current SoCR lab collaborators and partners:

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We are very appreciative of the following organisations who currently or have generously provided funding for our research –