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I have a Bachelors of Psychological Science (Hons I) and a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Queensland, Australia. In my PhD, I used brain imaging and computational modelling to study brain pathways that process emotional facial expressions. I then moved to the UK and worked as a research fellow at UCL (in the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research). There, I examined how people with higher anxiety decide whether to approach or avoid risky situations, and how future scenarios are rapidly played out in the brain.

I'm now a Senior Scientist at Alena, where I develop and design mobile games to predict the extent to which different people with social anxiety will benefit from different therapeutic tools. I strongly believe that the creative digitisation of mental health support will help solve the mental health crisis. Please contact me if you would like to discuss how naturalistic and engaging environments (e.g., video games, music, and art) can enhance mental health research and the development of practical mental health tools.


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