Why do people feel disconnected?
Many people struggle to feel in sync with the environment around them and with others during social interactions. This disconnect is often linked to mental health challenges, but we do not yet understand how it develops in the brain or why some people experience it more than others.
My research aims to uncover the measurable physiological mechanisms behind this misalignment, and to understand how they drive long-term health disparities in Neurodevelopmental conditions.
Biomarker Discovery in Psychiatry
I develop and validate quantifiable EEG signatures of Neurodevelopmental conditions and other psychiatric illnesses. My long-term goal is to do for psychiatry what biomarkers have done for the rest of medicine: replace subjective symptom checklists with objective, and replicable, biological measures that can guide personalised treatment.
Normative Modelling and Sex Differences
Girls and women with autism and ADHD have been historically overlooked in research, leading to missed and delayed diagnoses. I apply normative modeling to large-scale multimodal datasets to identify sex-differentiated neural markers of social and sensory processing. This work directly addresses who gets diagnosed, and when.
Quantum Computing for Neuroscience
The brain is a complex, multi-scale dynamical system which requires new computational approaches to fully understand. As a member of the IBM Quantum HealthCare and Life Sciences Working Group, I explore how quantum computing methods can help model intricate brain activity.
Neuroimmunology and Allostatic Load
Chronic misalignment exacts a measurable physiological toll. My current work investigates how neural, and autonomic, signatures of allostatic load connect to both brain and immune system function, and what that means for the long-term health of neurodivergent individuals.
My Research Aims
