About me

I'm based at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where I am a postdoctoral researcher on Ali Boyle's UKRI-funded project Episodic Memory: Uniquely Human? This interdisciplinary project explores the distribution and function of episodic memory. In short, what is episodic memory for, and who has it? Drawing on evidence and tools from philosophy, comparative cognition, and computer science, we apply these questions to artificial agents and non-human animals.

Within the project, my research particularly focuses on developing an account of constructive episodic memory, and applying this account to AI agents. I'm interested in seeing whether adding constructive memory processes to the cognitive architecture of AI agents could solve some of its current problems, such as catastrophic forgetting, and encourage other behaviour such as intelligent exploration. I will be working with the University of Cambridge's Animal-AI team at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence to implement and test this hypothesis.

I have previosuly held a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, and a position as a Teaching Associate in Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Psychology in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield.

I completed my PhD under the supervision of Luca Barlassina, Dorothea Debus, and Dominic Gregory, funded by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities. I completed my MA in Cognitive Studies at the University of Sheffield, and my MA (Hons) in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.


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