Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Professional/Educational Background:
My academic career began at the University of Central Florida, where I was mentored by Shaun Gallagher in the interdisciplinary application of philosophy, phenomenology, and experimental psychology to the embodied self. In 2012, I completed a PhD in Neuroscience at Aarhus University within the Interacting Minds Centre, where I worked with Chris Frith, Antoine Lutz, and Andreas Roepstorff to investigate how mindfulness-based stress reduction impacts cognitive control and affective neural processing. From 2013 – 2018 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow jointly in the FIL and ICN at University College London, where I worked with Geraint Rees and Karl J Friston to develop embodied predictive processing models of self-inference and metacognition. More recently, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge Psychiatry together with Paul Fletcher on a variety of projects investigating brain-body interaction, predictive processing, and metacognition in health-harming disorders such as obesity and prophylactic gastrectomy. Currently an Associate Professor (Lektor), Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at Aarhus University Hospital
Work-related Interests:
Computational and psychophysiological modelling of interoception, metacognition, and brain-body interaction
