About me

I am a cognitive neuroscientist, studying self simulation and self-modelling. I currently hold a post-doctoral research fellowship at All Souls College, University of Oxford.

In my PhD thesis, supervised by Steve Fleming and Karl Friston (Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL), I investigated the neural and computational basis of inference about absence, including how inference about absence relates to self-modelling. I then undertook a post-doc with Clare Press at Birkbeck University, in which I studied effects of motivation and metacognition on perceptual processing. Before moving to London I completed an MSc at Tel Aviv University as a student in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students. In my Master’s thesis, supervised by Roy Mukamel, I used model-free fMRI analysis to investigate the internal forward model in the human brain.

Beyond my research on selves and self-models I’m also interested in the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, and in the interplay between science and ethics.