I am a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology and Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging where I lead the Metacognition Group. The group’s research focuses on the mechanisms supporting conscious awareness and metacognition in the adult human brain. 

I received a first class BA in Psychology and Physiology at Oxford University (2003-2006) before completing a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL under the supervision of Ray Dolan and Chris Frith, investigating conscious awareness in perceptual decision-making (2006-2011). I was awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship to study with Nathaniel Daw at New York University and Matthew Rushworth at Oxford (2011-2015), building computational models of self-monitoring. In 2006 I received the British Psychological Society Undergraduate Award and the Gibbs Prize in Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Since then my research has been recognized with the William James Prize from the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (2012), the Wiley Prize in Psychology from the British Academy (2016), a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology (2017) and the BPS Spearman Medal (2019). I was Executive Director of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness from 2015-2020, and currently Editor at Mind & Language and Neuroscience of Consciousness.

I am actively involved in public engagement and have written general-interest articles for outlets including Aeon, New Scientist and Scientific American.