I’m a lecturer in the Department of Psychology, at Royal Holloway University of London, where I lead the I lead the Computations in Agency and Metacognition Lab. I am also an affiliated member of the Neuroscience of Mental Health group, at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

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I am interested in how we monitor and control our actions, and our cognition, and how that interacts with decision-making and learning.  For example, how we come to feel in control of our actions and their consequences, i.e. have a sense of agency, an experience that is foundational to our societal notions of responsibility and freedom of choice. I am also interested in how differences in these (meta)cognitive processes may be linked to mental health issues, like depression (work started thanks to an ESRC New Investigator Grant).  These issues are investigated using a combination of cognitive, computational, behavioural and neuroimaging methods.