I am a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Essex, UK.

I’m interested in experimental existential psychology. I examine how people find meaning through belief systems, such as spirituality, religiosity, or political orientation, and to what extent these belief systems contribute to social misperceptions, such as scepticism towards scientific epistemology and specific science domains. I also study perceptions of the science-religion relationship, behavioural and physiological responses to meaning violations, and I explore the role of spatial cues in the mental representation of meaning.

I completed my PhD in Social Cognition at Cardiff University (2019). Before joining the University of Essex in 2024, I was as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham (2019-2020) and the University of Amsterdam (2020-2024).

My publications can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mEm3DPcAAAAJ&hl=en