I’m a postdoctoral researcher in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford with the Human Information Processing Lab. I defended my PhD in September 2024, for which I was funded by a Wellcome Trust studentship in Neuroscience. In my doctoral work, I studied mechanisms supporting persistence with goals (in Nature Human Behaviour here) and planning (in Journal of Neuroscience here). My research uses computational models of behaviour and fMRI to explore these mechanisms in healthy people and individuals with prefrontal brain damage.

As a current postdoc with Chris Summerfield, I’m interested in understanding why new learning sometimes interferes with prior knowledge and sometimes doesn’t, in humans and artificial neural networks. I’m especially interested in the trade-offs between transferring knowledge to new settings, and avoiding interference. You can read more about our findings comparing humans and ANNs in this preprint.

In September 2025, I’m excited to be joining Princeton Neuroscience Institute as a C.V. Starr Fellow, with the Niv Lab.