CV

2010 – current

Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD student in neuroscience at UCL, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging

Basal ganglia circuits for human action selection and instrumental learning.

Supervised by Prof Ray Dolan and Prof Karl Friston

Supervisor: Prof Roshan Cools

Radboud University Nijmegen

2012	Nov 12	Manipulating the balance between model-based and model-free value-based choice through L-DOPA and transcranial magnetic stimulation		FENS Neurobiology of Emotion, Italy
	Oct 14	Neural mechanisms of selective action inhibition		SfN (details)
	July 18	Dopamine enhances model-based over model-free behavior		FENS Barcelona (abstract)
	June 29	Dopamine enhances model-based over model-free behavior		UCL Neuroscience symposium
	May 25	Dopamine enhances model-based over model-free behavior	ppt	2nd Einstein Fellowship Symposium, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
	Mar 14	Introduction to connectivity: PPI and SEM	ppt	Methods for Dummies, UCL

2011	Dec 14	Basis of the BOLD signal	ppt	Methods for Dummies, UCL
	Dec 7	Bayes for Beginners	ppt	Methods for Dummies, UCL
	Apr 28	Balancing act: dopamine in model-based and model-free behaviour		1st Einstein Fellowship Symposium on Decision-making, Berlin School of Mind and Brain

2010	Jul 14	Effects of dopaminergic medication on value-based decision-making in Parkinson’s disease		Joint ‘cognitive control’ labmeeting, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
	Jul 8	Non-orthogonal regressors: concepts and consequences	ppt	fMRI analysis methods meeting, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
	Jan7	Scanning patients using fMRI		fMRI analysis methods meeting, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging

2010	Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD scholarship
2007	Quo Vadis travel grant, 6 months at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

2013	Wellcome Trust public engagement for Brain Awareness week
2012-3	Brain Meeting seminar series organizer
2011-2	Methods for Dummies course organizer
2005-7	Sigma symposium organising committee
2005-7	Course committee for molecular life sciences
2005-7	TA secondary school students

2013	The Great Brain Experiment covered widely
2013	Wellcome Trust’s ThInk blog post (pdf if link is down)