Biography

Biography

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As an undergraduate, I studied Biological Sciences & Psychology (dual major) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, USA (1999) and then went on to complete a PhD (2006) in Psychology (Cognition, Brain, & Behaviour) at the University of California, Berkeley with Professors Stephen Palmer and Lynn Robertson. My PhD work focused on visual perceptual organisation (figure-ground organisation) and studies of patients with hemi-spatial neglect. I then moved to London with funding from the Royal Society (and later the British Academy) to do post-doctoral work in the laboratory of Prof Jon Driver at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in Queen Square. In 2012, I started a lectureship at the University of Kent and was Co-Director of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Systems until I moved to Keele in 2017.

At Keele, I have served as the Chair of the Psychology Research Ethics Panel and as Research Lead for Cognition, Brain, & Behaviour from 2017-2020 and from 2020-2022 I was the School of Psychology Research Director. In January 2023, I was appointed as Dean of Research for the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Association (FHEA), Fellow of the Psychonomic Society (FPsyS), and a member of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) and Vision Sciences Society (VSS).

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