People

Current Lab Members

You learn more about the background and different research areas of different lab members by clicking on the images below.


Professor Tali Sharot
Director of the Affective Brain Lab
Tali Sharot is the director of the Affective Brain Lab. She is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow.
Moshe Glickman
Dr. Moshe Glickman
Postdoctoral fellow
Moshe is a postdoctoral researcher, studying how interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) systems impact human cognition, and how machine learning can be used to identify novel decision biases.
Dr. Tal Nahari
Postdoctoral fellow
Tal is a postdoctoral researcher, studying the interplay between internal-memory and external-perceptual information gathering. She wishes to examine why and when cognitive activities could be rewarding or aversive.
Dr. Refael Tikochinski
Postdoctoral fellow
Refael is a postdoctoral researcher, studying how new information updates individuals' mental models and influences their subsequent information-seeking behaviors, using computational and neuroimaging methods.
Hadeel Haj-Ali
PhD Student
Hadeel is a Ph.D. student at the Affective Brain Lab, interested in the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms underlying risk escalation.
India Pinhorn
PhD Student
India is a Ph.D. student at the Affective Brain Lab. She is interested in how we use real-world multimodal similarity structures to infer reward value.
Amber Düttmann
PhD Student
Amber is a Ph.D. student at the Affective Brain Lab, interested in how human-AI interactions influence human cognition
Imme Van Der Plas
Intern
intern at ABL and a Master’s student in Cognitive and Decision Science at UCL. Assisting on the design and analysis of studies on intrinsic rewards and cognitive development
Fatema Al-Khalifa
Intern
Fatema is an intern at the Affective Brain Lab and a Master’s student at the LSE. She has been assisting with the design and data collection of studies related to intrinsic rewards, foraging, and risk-taking.
Jonatan Fontanez
UROP
Jonatan is currently working on full-stack development for a software that helps web-browsing users understand their information-seeking behavior
Nathan Zhu
UROP
Nathan is currently working on front and back-end development for the web-browsing plug in and IOS application that helps keep users updated on their information-seeking behavior
Tommy Harris
UROP
Tommy is interested in the intersection of personal wellbeing and technology. He is doing full-stack development on software that aims to relate web browsing behavior to mental health.
Toluwaniyin Ojo-Osagie
UROP
Tolu is currently working on front and back-end development for the web-browsing plug in and IOS application that helps keep users updated on their information-seeking behavior

 


Previous Lab Members




Former Post Docs

Bastien Blain: Assistant Professor, Sorbonne University, Paris

Stephanie Lazzaro: Lecturer, Yale University

Christina Moutsiana:  Associate Professor, University of Westminster, London.

Andreas Kappes:  Associate Professor, City, University of London.

Kaustubh Patil: Leader research group “Applied Machine Learning”, Research Centre Juelich.

Donal Cahill: Researcher, Google Headquarters.

Eleanor Loh: Machine Learning Scientist,

Former PhD Students

Filip GęsiarzBehavioral Insight Team (aka the UK Nudge Team)

Neil Garrett: Assistant Professor, University of East Anglia

Caroline Charpentier: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland.

Sebastian Bobadilla Suarez: Research associate, The Love Lab, University College London.

Valentina Vellani: UX and Behavioural Researcher at RE:LAB.

Chris Kelly: HAI Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford

Laura Globig: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Social Identity & Morality Lab, NYU

Sarah Zheng: Research Fellow, The Dawes Centre for future Crime, UCL

Former MSc Students

Sofia Gumilevskaya: PhD Student, UCL

Christina Maher: PhD Student, Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine

Gaia Molinaro: PhD student, UC Berkeley

Maria Pitteri

Yasmeen Alawadhi

Isabella De Taranto

Eloise Copland: Senior behavioural scientist, Influence At Work UK.

Lianne de Vries: PhD student, Vrije universiteit Amsterdam

Phoebe Chen: Working as a research assistant at the cognitive psychology lab at National Chengchi University, Taipei.

Rose Cooper: Post Doc, Northeastern University.

Ana Maria González Garzón: Teaching, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota.

Samuel Gibbon

Tena Nevidal

Former Undergraduate Research Assistants, Interns and visiting PhD students

Zohar Preminger: PhD student

Jasmine Lee: PhD student

Lucky Deignan: former UROP

Kai Tajima: former intern

Dimitra Klinaki: former intern

Rick Ono: former UROP

Adam Snowdon: former UROP

Asal Vaghefzadeh: former UROP

Henry Zhang: former UROP

Eli Scharf: former UROP

Eva Ge: former UROP 

Omozusi Guobadia

Fiona Cai

Vincent Huang

Tsegazeab Beteselassie

Johnvir Pangli

Iulia-Teodora Barbu

Sacha Bazzal

Sharon Machado Sanchez

Olivia Macmillan-Scott

Elena Gutierrez

Yan Wu

Jingxiu Cheng

Maria Tudor

Kristin Witte: PhD student Max Planck

Gloria Feng: PhD student, Rutledge lab, Yale University

Yulin Wang: Joint PhD between Vrije Universteit Brussel and University of Ghent

Phoebe Crosthwaite: Finishing her degree at Stanford University

Josie Munoz: Finishing her degree at Cardiff University

Laura Weidinger: Finishing a Master’s degree at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain

Anna Theresa Eckes: Finishing her degree at University of Münster

Paula Wicher: Research assistant at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Jay See Tow: Finishing his degree at University College London.

Lucy Li: Doing a PhD at Cornell University.

Daniel Murage: Studying a MFA–Fiction program at NYU.

Tara Srirangarajan: PhD student, Stanford University.

Lena Coutrot: Doing an MSc in Cognitive Science at Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Julia Folz: Doing an MSc in Neuro-Cognitive Psychology at LMU Munich.

Lennart Wittkuhn: PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin in October.

Maria Gädeke: Finishing a Master’s of Neurosciences at the University of Bonn.

Sarah Hadden: Former Research Assistant.

Anja Hallan-Wolff: Studying a degree in clinical psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Molly Wilner: Student at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York.