I am currently an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the National College of Ireland. I am interested in understanding how humans navigate successfully, and how this ability becomes impaired with cognitive ageing and dementia. I plan to use some emerging and advanced neuroimaging techniques to investigate the use of associative learning principles that may modulate successful spatial memory and navigation in humans. 

To achieve this I use the virtual water maze and several other learning/memory tasks. By understanding the underlying principles of learning and memory during navigation - we hope to be able to predict when and how decline in these abilities becomes a cognitive marker for Alzheimer's disease and dementia onset. I have recently finished my PhD in the Department of Psychology at Maynooth University. 

My research focused on spatial learning and memory during human navigation using EEG and how the behaviours and oscillations underlying this change with age.