I am currently a lecturer at University of East London and an associated research fellow in Nilli Lavie's attention lab at UCL. Previously I conducted my postdoc research with Nilli Lavie's after obtaining my PhD from the University of London (supervised by Jules Davidoff) in 2003. Before my PhD I gained an MSc in Psychology at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and then worked as a human factors expert at the Fraunhofer Institute of Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart.

My main interest is in visual cognition, in particular object and face recognition. This includes work on visual attention and implicit memory. The current focus is on the role of attention in forming object representations, and the role of perceptual load in object and face recognition.