Associate Professor in Psychology MRC Career Development Award Fellow Research Interests Matilde’s lab at Birkbeck, University of London aims to uncover the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying psychiatric conditions, with a particular focus on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and more generally the
Postdoctoral Researcher Research Interests My research sits at the intersection of memory, learning, predictive processing, and cognitive control, studying how the brain uses past experience to guide future behaviour flexibly. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Vaghi Lab, I use
Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher Research Interests My research examines how infants and children learn, predict, and plan actions, combining longitudinal developmental designs with multimodal methods including eye-tracking, pupillometry, motion tracking, EEG/fNIRS, and advanced quantitative approaches. I am building an independent programme on
Research Assistant
PhD Student Supervisors Primary Supervisor: Prof Adam Tierney (Birkbeck, University of London) Secondary Supervisor: Talia Isaacs (UCL) Research Interests My research is in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics, with a particular focus on second language acquisition. I use behavioural techniques and
PhD Student Supervisors Dr Chiara Bulgarelli Professor Bonamy Oliver Professor Emily Jones Research Interests My PhD focuses on empathy development in early educational settings. I am exploring whether teachers can encourage empathy through play in their classrooms, and the mechanisms
Chief Insights Officer at at PlayTandem About Developmental psychologist turned AI innovator. After two decades studying how babies learn—from language acquisition to the developmental role of laughter—I’m now Chief Insights Officer at PlayTandem.com, revolutionizing early childhood education through AI. My
PhD Student Supervisors Prof. Richard Cooper Prof. Denis Mareschal Research Interests The focus of my PhD is the control of goal-directed actions across development in infancy and childhood. I aim to better understand how young children learn and control sequences of action
PhD Student Supervisors Dr Fred Dick (Birkbeck/UCL Centre for Neuro Imaging, Birkbeck College) Professor Susan Hallam (Department of Lifelong and Comparative Education, UCL Institute of Education)Dr Adam Taylor Tierney (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck College) Research Interests My project aims
