I am a professor in Cognitive Psychology at Université Paris 8 (France), a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, the director of the DysCo research unit, and a member of the Psycavi observatory, which documents the psychological impact of armed conflicts and intergroup violence.
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After completing a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Goldsmiths University of London (UK) in 2009, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher, studying crosscultural differences in perception and cognition between Western people and the Himba of Northern Namibia. I then completed a second postdoc, researching the links between emotion, trauma and cognition, at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Canada). I was appointed as a lecturer at Université de Nîmes in September 2014, and then at Université Paris 8 in January 2019.
Research interests
My research addresses perception (e.g., perceptual bias, “seeing the forest or the tree”), reasoning (heuristic-based vs. analytical reasoning) and general cognitive functioning (cognitive health indicators, such as working memory). Specifically, I am interested in the origins of cross-cultural differences in perception and cognition (by contrasting Western and African populations), and the links between trauma exposure, cognitive health and general functioning (e.g., impact of exposure to the Rwandan genocide on reasoning and cognitive functioning, psychological health, and openness to reconciliation).
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