Biography

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate working on a 5-year European Research Council project titled CogSoCoAGE to investigate the cognitive basis of social communication across the life-span. The CogSoCoAGE project examines social cognition (visual perspective taking, theory of mind, empathy), its interaction with executive functions (working memory, inhibition, set-shifting, planning), and how this changes across the lifespan (from 10 to 80+ years old), using behavioural methods, eye-tracking and electrophysiological measures (EEG/ERP).

My own research investigates cognition (particularly social cognition and executive function), inter and intra individual variability, and wellbeing across the lifespan in neurotypical and autistic populations. Previously, I have studied cognition (theory of mind, executive function, local-global processing) in typical development and autism spectrum disorder using cognitive-experimental measures, twin-model fitting, and structural equation modelling.