I am a Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University. Prior to that I was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN, University College London). I obtained my PhD in neuroscience from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

Currently my main research focus is on the neural basis of spatial and episodic memory, spatial navigation, and the involvement of the medial temporal lobe in visual cognition. More broadly, I am also interested in large scale brain modeling, AI, central pattern generators and biologically inspired robotics. I am a physicist by training, and time permitting I moonlight as a writer. My first novel (a satire) is available on Amazon.
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Recent News
Sep 2021, New paper out in PLoS Computational Biology: A model of head direction and landmark coding in ...
Sep 2021, appointed Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University
Sep 2021, Symposium talk at EBBS 2021
Aug 2020,  New paper out in Nature Reviews Neuroscience: Neuronal Vector Coding in Spatial Cognition
Jun 2020,  Invited talk on spatial cognition at the University of Trento (Zoom)
Aug 2019, Paper out in Hippocampus: Navigating with grid and place cells in cluttered environments (OPEN ACCESS)
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