Current

2024 - Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Heriot-Watt University

2024 - 2025: Visiting Academic, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh

Past

2023 - 2024: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde
- Project: Strategy training to support healthy cognitive ageing: behavioural, neuroimaging, and real-world investigations

2021 - 2023 : Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh
- Project: I'm Still Learning: Collaborative Learning In Person And Remotely In Ageing

2017 - 2021: Doctoral candidate, University of Essex
- Thesis: Age differences in risk-taking behaviour: the role of risk preference and cognitive ability

2015 - 2016: Research assistant, Leiden University
- Project: Neural Mechanisms Involved in Social Conformity and Psychopathic Traits: Prediction Errors, Reward Processing and Saliency

2015 - 2015: Research assistant, Leiden University
- Project: How modulations in responsibility for other’s harm affects electrophysiological correlates of performance monitoring

2012 - 2012: Research assistant, TNO Leiden
- Project: Testing the validity and reliability of a newly standardized survey for Dutch Child Protective Services (Jeugdzorg)

2012 - 2012: Project member, Leiden University of Applied Science
- Project: Developing a screener to detect mild intellectual disability in prison populations

2011 - 2012: Project member, Leiden University of Applied Science 
- Project: Developing an outreach program for younger adults at high risk of psychosis

   Upcoming

• Talk. Speech, Language, and Cognition Lab, Penn State. April 4th, 2025.

• Poster. European Cognitive Ageing Society. Pavia, Italy. May 7-10, 2025.

2024

• Poster. Collaborative Learning with Social Robots in Ageing. Scottish Cognitive Ageing Network (SCAN), Stirling, October 2024. 

• Poster. Collaborative Learning with Social Robots in Ageing. Scottish Cognitive Ageing Network (SCAN), Stirling, October 2024. 

• Talk. Meet the Scientist. Gorilla Experiment Builder, Online, October 2024. Click here for the recording.

• Poster. Collaborative Learning with Social Robots in Ageing. Healthy Ageing Showcase, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, October 2024. 

• Poster. Collaborative learning: developing and validating the computerised Barrier Task. Healthy Ageing Showcase, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, October 2024. Presented by Dr Matthew Johnston (collaborator). 

2023

• Talk. Collaborative learning in older age: are there differences in performance when learning with a familiar or unfamiliar partner? Psychonomics Society Annual Meeting. San Francisco (USA), November 2023.

• Talk. Collaborative learning in older age: are there differences in performance when learning with a familiar or unfamiliar partner? Biannual meeting of the Scottish Cognitive Aging Network (SCAN), May 2023.

• Talk. Collaborative learning in older age: are there differences in performance when learning with a familiar or unfamiliar partner? Age and Cognition Conference, April 2023.

• Seminar. PhD Pro: Finding a postdoc position. Panel member, University of Edinburgh, January 2023.

2022

• Workshop. Registered Reports: from preparation to publication. Edinburgh Open Research Conference, May 2022.  

• Poster. Collaborative learning in older age: a systematic review. Poster presented at Edinburgh Open Research Conference, May 2022. 
  
  

2019

• Talk. Age differences in risk-taking behavior: a matter of risk-attitude or decision-quality? Conference for Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making (SPUDM), August 2019

• Talk. Age differences in risk-taking behavior: a matter of risk-attitude or decision-quality? ECEM Conference, June 2019

• Talk.  Age differences in risk-taking behavior: a matter of risk-attitude or decision quality? Psychology Research Showcase, May 2019

• Talk. Age differences in risk-taking behavior: a matter of risk-attitude or decision quality? Three Minute Thesis competition, May 2019

• Talk. Age differences in risk-taking behavior: a matter of risk-attitude or decision-quality? Social Sciences Conference, March 2019

• 2024
  Internal funding:  Research-Related Funding, School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University (Augus 2024)
  Grant: Research Incentive Grant, Carnegie Trust (September 2024 - August 2025)
  Grant: Research Grant, Gorilla Software (January 2024 - January 2025)
  
  

• 2021
  Award: Excellence in Education Award, University of Essex
  Scholarship: Fully-funded place at Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
  
  

• 2019
  Grant: Psychology Research Grant, University of Essex (July 2019 - June 2020)
  
  

• 2017
  Scholarship: Doctoral Scholarship, University of Essex (October 2017 - September 2021)
  
  

• 2016
  Grant: Academic grant, VSB Fonds (August 2016 - August 2017)

2017 - 2021: PhD in Psychology, University of Essex

2016 - 2017: MSc in Psychological Research, University of Edinburgh

2012 - 2015: BSc in Psychology, Leiden University

2010-2012: Propadeutic diploma in Applied Psychology, Leiden University of Applied Psychology

• 2024  - present: Voluntary Research Assistant (VRA) coordinator, Heriot-Watt University
  
  

• 2023 - present: Committee member, Scottish Cognitive Ageing Network (SCAN)
  
  

• 2021 - present: Interview panel member
  - Position of Computer/Android Programmer (University of Edinburgh, 2021)
  - Position of Research Assistant (University of Edinburgh, 2022; 2023)
  -  Position of Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Edinburgh, 2024)
  - Position of Research Assistant (Heriot-Watt University, 2024)
  
  

• 2021 - 2024: Supervision, University of Edinburgh
  - Postgraduate Research Assistant (2; 2022 - 2024)
  - Computer/Android Programmer (1; 2021 - 2022)
  - Voluntary Research Assistant (7; 2022 - 2024)
  
  

• 2021 - 2023: Early Career Research Mentor, University of Edinburgh
  
  

• 2019 - 2021: Chair of the Judgment and Decision-making (JDM) group, University of Essex
  
  

• 2019 - 2021: Psychology PhD Representative, University of Essex
  - Organized and ran a “Meet The Speaker Q&A” event with Dr Renato Frey (December 2020)
  - Panel member for Athena Swan Q&A
  
  

• 2018 - 2021: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Essex
  - PS115, BSc first-year statistics (2020 – 2021)
  - PS114, BSc first-year Psychology research methods course (2019 – 2021)
  - PS212, BSc second-year statistics course (2018 – 2020)
  - PS908, MSc course in statistics (2019)
  - PS111, BSc first-year introduction to Psychology (2018-2019)
  
  

• 2018 - 2020: Statistics tutor, University of Essex

• Scottish Cognitive Aging Network (SCAN)

• Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA)

• European Association for Decision Making (EADM)

• Psychonomic Society

• Journal of Work, Aging & Retirement

• Peer Community in Registered Reports (PCI-RR)
  - Associations of fear, anger, happiness, and hope with risk judgments: Revisiting appraisal-tendency framework with a replication and extensions of Lerner and Keltner (2001)