I am a professor at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) affiliated with the Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences (CRCN) and the ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI). I am also the principal investigator of the (Un)Adaptive Mind Lab, co-director of the Cognitive Science for Society (CS4S) research unit, and co-founder of BeBrain - a behavioral science consultancy based in Brussels.
I am passionate about people's minds. In particular, I love understanding how people make decisions, which unfortunately do not always improve their well-being and mental health. For example, why do people decide to persistently consume negative information on social media despite getting anxious or sad? Or why do people decide to engage in behaviors that are against what they believe or want? In my research, I try to find answers to these questions by investigating the mechanisms underlying human decision-making. To this end, I employ a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on psychology (e.g., behavioral and cognitive paradigms, field experiments), neuroscience (e.g., neuroimaging, pharmacological interventions), and computer science (e.g., computational models like reinforcement learning).