Brief bio

As a slight academic detour, I spent 2005 and 2006 in Beijing studying Mandarin Chinese. Following that I read for an undergraduate degree in Linguistics at Aarhus University (Denmark) from 2006 to 2010. During this period, I visited Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) and the University of Hong Kong to study neuroscience and psychology. I also became involved with the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University. After finishing my undergraduate degree, I read for a Masters degree in Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford from 2010 to 2011. Upon completion of my Masters degree, I received the Calleva Research Studentship to read for a DPhil degree at the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Calleva Research Centre for Evolution and Human Sciences, also at Oxford. After finishing my DPhil in 2015, I joined the Metacognition Lab at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (FIL) at UCL. In 2019, I received an independent Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate the neurobiological basis of flexible social behaviour, also at the FIL. In 2023, I returned to Aarhus to start my own lab at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), funded by a Lundbeck Foundation Fellows award.