I am a postdoctoral research associate with Drs. Arne Ekstrom and Carol Barnes at the University of Arizona, where I study the neural and cognitive mechanisms of memory and cognitive aging. My research examines how aging affects episodic and spatial memory and the neural representations that support them. I use multimodal MRI, eye-tracking, cognitive assessment, and immersive virtual reality, with recent work extending to locus coeruleus integrity and biomarkers associated with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease.

A major focus of my research is age-related neural dedifferentiation: the tendency for neural representations to become less distinctive with increasing age. My work examines how these changes relate to memory performance, how they may be shaped by age-related differences in exploratory eye movements, and how they may impact spatial behavior. More recently, I have begun investigating whether individual differences in locus coeruleus structure and microstructure help explain variability in neural specificity and cognition in older adulthood.

I received my PhD in Cognition and Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2022 under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Rugg. My doctoral work examined age-related differences in the neural mechanisms of episodic memory encoding and retrieval, including interactions among neural selectivity, memory performance, and exploratory eye movements.

Before graduate school, I earned my BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom.