I am currently an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the National College of Ireland. Before joining NCI, I graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in Psychology in 2018 and a M.Sc. by research in 2020 from Maynooth University. I completed my John & Pat Hume Fellowship Ph.D. in early 2024 at Maynooth University. I am interested in how our brain constructs spatial representations and uses them to learn, remember, and navigate. I am also interested in how these systems change with healthy ageing and age-related diseases such as dementia. My work uses a range of methods including neuroimaging (EEG), virtual reality and machine learning to understand the behavioural and neural properties of human spatial cognition. 

By understanding the underlying principles of learning and memory during navigation - we hope to be able to predict when and how decline in these abilities becomes a cognitive marker for Alzheimer's disease and dementia onset.

My doctoral research focused on spatial learning and memory during human navigation using EEG and how behaviours and brain waves (oscillations) underlying this change with age.

I have received funding for my work from the following sources: