I joined the University of St Andrews in 2017 as an undergraduate student and have since completed a BSc in Neuroscience (2021) and a MSc in Comparative, Evolutionary, and Developmental Psychology (2022).

Currently, I am a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Amanda Seed and Dr Justin Ales. More broadly, my interests have been guided by a drive to understand what kinds of cognitive processes underlie animal behaviour, what evolutionary pressures gave rise to the breadth of intelligent behaviours we see across species, and where the evolutionary roots of our own cognition as humans fit within the landscape of nonhuman intelligence. Over the last three years, I have gained research experience at the confluence of behavioural assays of short-term memory systems and a recent technological development, virtual environments. The focus of my PhD has been understanding whether virtual environments can become a versatile tool for studying primate working memory, metacognition, and cognition more broadly. Overall, my long-term goal is finding ways of integrating behavioural assays with cutting-edge technology to create innovative methods for investigating diverse intelligences both at the species level and at phylogenetic scale.