Nina Peleg

PhD Student

Supervisors

Professor Ori Ossmy

Professor Andrew Tolmie (UCL)

Professor Denis Mareschal 

Research Interests

I am a final year PhD student. My research explores how children develop spatial and problem-solving skills during complex, naturalistic construction tasks, and how these processes relate to broader educational outcomes in science and mathematics. It combines methods and theory from developmental psychology, cognitive science, and educational neuroscience. My PhD is funded by the Bloomsbury Colleges Studentship.

Education

• PhD Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London (2023–present)
• MSc Educational Neuroscience (Distinction), Birkbeck, University of London / University College London (2023)
• BA Experimental Psychology (2:1), University of Oxford (2021)

Awards, Funding, Grants

• BPS Postgraduate Student Research Scheme: Visiting Student Researcher, Embodied Design Research Laboratory (EDRL), University of California, Berkeley (2026)

Publications