I am a Cognitive Neuroscience PhD student, working with Dr. Sean Polyn in the Computational Memory Lab at Vanderbilt University. My current doctoral research focuses on episodic and semantic memory. In particular, I am interested in how we store memories for knowledge and everyday events, how this can later be retrieved, and the implications of focal brain damage on these processes.

I use computational models and neuroimaging methods to try and understand the neural mechanisms of the human memory system. Questions that fascinate me include, but are not limited to:

• what is the process of human memory search (and can we model it)?
• how do we retrieve and reconstruct a past event? – our ability to mental time travel
• how does that interact with our existing semantic knowledge of the world?
• is there a conceptual structure embedded within our memory for time and space?

My undergraduate degree was in Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where I conducted my honours thesis research in the Multimodel Neuroscience of Decision Making Lab. I spent my third year in the Cognitive Science program at the University of California, Berkeley working in the Cognition and Action Lab. I have also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Mind & Brain Institute, Charité-Universitätsmedizinin, Berlin, Germany.

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