About Me

In 2025, I graduated with my PhD from the Department of Psychology (Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences research cluster) at Western University, in London, ON, Canada. I was co-supervised by Ken McRae and Ryan A. Stevenson, and part of the Centre for Brain and Mind. My dissertation research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.

I completed my Master of Science degree in Psychology, also at Western, in 2020. My Honours Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour was completed at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. I grew up nearby in Ancaster, ON.

Most of my research has focused on people’s knowledge and experience of meaningful patterns of behaviours in the world (like "going grocery shopping"), called event knowledge. More specifically, I studied how event knowledge relates to traits associated with autism, particularly social communication skills, and how autistic and non-autistic individuals experience everyday events. I have also worked on projects investigating ADHD traits, social anxiety traits, sensory perception, language, and academic skills. I am further interested in cognition more broadly, neurodiversity, health, and mental health.

I am very enthusiastic about various types of writing (including literature reviews, research methodology writing, research proposals, scientific summaries, technical writing, editing, and science communication). I'm also interested in knowledge translation and making STEM fields more inclusive. In the past, I was Conference Co-Chair and Head of Media & Design for the graduate student-run Inspiring Diversity in STEM 2024 conference.

Outside of science, I love nature and travel photography, and the arts in many of its forms. I also have a pet hedgehog named after Ada Lovelace.