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Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University, where I investigate how individuals coordinate their speech and movement patterns during social interactions. My research focuses on understanding how these multimodal behavioural signals - both within a person and between interaction partners- capture cognitive load, communicative demands, and social or clinical difficulties.

I am currently working on projects examining how people collaborate in noisy or high-demand environments, and how subtle coordination patterns can reveal challenges linked to mental health, including social anxiety. A major strand of my work explores how these markers of interpersonal coordination can be used in applied settings. To this end, I am currently running a project quantifying coordination within psychotherapy sessions with the goal of improving treatment outcomes.

I'm also passionate about making advanced time series analyses more accessible for other researchers. To this end, I contribute open resources on GitHub, including a tutorial and an accessible recurrence-analysis repository, to help researchers incorporate these techniques into their own work.

Education/Academic qualification

Psychology, PhD, University of Western Australia

20192023

Award Date: 13 Dec 2023

Psychology, Mres, University of Aberdeen

20162017

Psychology, MA, University of Aberdeen

20122016

External positions

Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia

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