Research Team

Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

Dr Daniel Perez Zapata

Dr Rory O’Sullivan (with Caroline Richards)

Dr Catherine Laverty (with Caroline Richards)

Dr Kayla Smith (with Caroline Richards)

Dr Lauren Shelley (with Caroline Richards)

Current Ph.D. Students

Paulina Salgado Garcia (with Andrea Krott)

Angelica Manzi (with Serena Lecce, University of Pavia)

Chuankun Cai (with Sanne van der Kleij)

Arfaa Riaz (with Caroline Richards)

Verinder Poonain (with Caroline Richards)

Jay Jones (with Caroline Richards)

Emily Tang (with Andrea Krott)

Aamina Khan (with Caroline Richards & Hayley Crawford)

Former Research Students

Jessica Todorov (with Stephane de Brito, Ph.D., 2025)

Poppy Hargreave (with Stephane de Brito, MSc by Research, 2026)

Elaine Kit Ling Yeung (with Ian Apperly, Ph.D., 2024)

Christina Pomareda (with Ian Apperly, Ph.D., 2024)

Kat Marlow (with Caroline Richards, Ph.D., 2024)

Claire Wright (with Caroline Richards, D.Clin.Psych., 2022)

Kei Ki Wong (M.Sc. by Research, 2021)

Former Team Members

Dr Venelin Kovatchev (2020-2021)

Dr Mikeda Jess (2021-2022)

Imogen Grumley Traynor (2019-2020)

Irene Luque Aguilera (2020)

Miryam Edwards (2021-2023)

Giulia Giordano (Visiting Ph.D. Student, University of Palermo, Italy, 2023)

Silke Kellens (Visiting Ph.D. Student, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2024)

National Research Collaborations

Professor Caroline Richards (University of Birmingham)

Dr Hayley Crawford (University of Warwick)

Professor Ian Apperly (University of Birmingham)

Dr Sanne Van Der Kleij (University of Birmingham)

Dr Philip Smith (University of Birmingham)

Dr Mark Lee (University of Birmingham)

Dr Stephane De Brito (University of Birmingham)

Dr Andrea Krott (University of Birmingham)

Professor Claire Hughes (University of Cambridge)

Dr Hana D’Souza (Cardiff University)

Dr Kate Baker (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.)

Dr Elian Fink (University of Sussex)

Dr Sarah Foley (University of Edinburgh)

Dr Keri Wong (UCL Institute of Education)

International Research Collaborations

Professor Serena Lecce (University of Pavia, Italy)

Dr Federica Bianco (University of Bergamo, Italy)

Dr Luca Ronchi (University of Pavia, Italy)

Dr Andrew Ribner (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Professor Judi Mesman (Leiden University, Netherlands)

Dr Zhenlin Wang (Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Professor Sandra Bosacki (Brock University, Canada)