I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and a clinical psychologist. I obtained my PhD in Clinical Psychology and Master of Psychology (Clinical) from UNSW.

I have an interest in social connections, social cognition, social determinants of health and mental health in older adults. My research includes meta-analyses of longitudinal cohorts of cognitive ageing to identify risk and protective factors for healthy ageing and developing novel interventions to help older adults to stay socially and mentally healthy.

I was the Study Coordinator for the SHARED (Social Health And Reserve in the Dementia patient journey) project from 2019-2022. The SHARED project was an international collaboration designed to study how social, biological and psychological factors interact to predict the onset and course of dementia across the lifespan. In 2023, I was the Study Coordinator for the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study 2 (MAS2) project, which involved following older adults over time to understand the biomarkers, lifestyle factors and digital biomarkers implicated in cognitive decline.

In 2020, the Dementia Australia Research Foundation (DARF) Pilot Grant funded my research to co-design and pilot a novel social cognitive skills intervention for older adults with cognitive impairment. Subsequently, the DARF 2022 Fellowship ($405,000 over 3 years) funded my research to conduct a RCT to evaluate the effectiveness of the co-designed social cognitive skills intervention in improving social, cognitive and mental health in older adults with cognitive impairment.