BSc (Hons), MSc
DPHIL STUDENT
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am interested in the role of striatal dopamine in mediating reward-guided behaviours, in particular when making effort-based decisions and in foraging scenarios. By using both cognitive and behavioural neuroscience methods, including pharmacology, fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, and imaging, I hope to translate my findings with the potential of application to clinical populations.
This research is jointly funded by the ESRC and St. John's College, Oxford, and is supervised by Prof. Masud Husain and Dr. Mark Walton.
BIOGRAPHY
I completed my undergraduate degree in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, with a final year project investigating spatial specificity in vision with regards to second-order adaptation. I also completed a 12 month clinical neuroscience internship at the Anna Freud Centre in association with UCL. Following this, I undertook a Master's degree in Psychological Research at Oxford, working on subjective reward valuation in terms of cognitive effort discounting and sensitivity to risk.