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Berlin, Germany

Berlin, Germany

A digital therapeutics company using neuroscience to develop new interventions for psychological diseases based on modulating the underlying brain circuits. We built the next generation of digital interventions for mental health.

Berlin Area, Germany

Led the research and development team for the BMBF-funded project, Optimood, focusing on developing a neuroscience-based digital intervention for depression.By pivoting key aspects of the research, restructuring company timelines, expanding the research team, and improving operation efficiency, I ensured several key milestones were reached even earlier than predicted and successfully secured a considerable financial expansion and extension of funding.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Using eye-tracking, motion tracking, and different behavioral tasks, I investigated the link between attention, perception and working memory. Focusing primary on spatial perception, I researched how we utilize our limited working memory resources to sustain a coherent, multisensory and continuous percept of the world around us. This is particularly critical when we operate in noisy environments, when accounting for the implications of our movements, or when trying to operate effectively in a cluttered visual world.Keywords: Working memory, eye-movements, saccades, computational modeling, visual stability, remapping, attention, short-term memory, multisensory integration, scientific project management, supervision, scientific communication

Munich Area, Germany

Investigated how sensory information from our different senses is realigned after our movements to produce a stable and continuous percept of the world around us. This work focused on developing engaging, multisensory environments for testing attention, perception and cognitive decision making. Keywords: eye-movements, saccades, computational modeling, visual stability, remapping, attention, short-term memory, multisensory integration, scientific project management, supervision, scientific communication

Pisa Area, Italy

Extended previous work with computational and neuroimaging (fMRI) methods to use multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to decode the perception of quantity from the human brain. Developed novel, purpose-built machine learning analysis code to perform cutting edge decoding of human neural data.

Pisa Area, Italy

Using a variety of different behavioral methods examined how the perception of space, time and numerosity. Developed new, cutting edge experimental approaches while testing typical adults and then focused on the gamification and transference of these techniques to the study of both children and individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

Pisa Area, Italy

Worked on the gamification of various different psychophysical experiments to suit the testing of both children and clinical populations

Sydney, Australia

Investigated the audiovisual integration of dynamic, reoccurring sequences

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology

• Used a variety of different behavioural and neurophysiological methods to examine the perception of space, time and numerosity in both.

Bachelor Of Science (Hons), Psychology

Honors Thesis with Prof. David Alais: "Perception of auditory motion in the near field"

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology