PhD Experimental PSychology

COGNITION

2017 - present

University of Ottawa, Canada

Interests

Memory, Consciousness, Cognition

Working Memory (WM) is the memory system responsible for holding on to information, transforming it, and then using that information to guide our behaviours. Since healthy WM function is essential to our everyday activities, it is important to understand what contributes to its success and/or decline. As a cognitive scientist, my research provides new applications for measuring and understanding WM.

As a member of the Cognitive Aging Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, our research focuses on the creation of new memory tests that can measure the unconscious contributions to WM.

MY IDEAL RESEARCH FIELD IS…

One without an end. I thrive in environments where I have the freedom to construct high impact, innovative, and interdisciplinary projects. I thoroughly enjoy the wide and dynamic playground between perception, consciousness, and memory —all of which interact in cognition.

CURRENT VOLUNTEER POSITIONS

1. As a CSPC Volunteer, I have served as the logistics coordinator for the Ocean Research & Conservation Association and Talent symposia, a grant writer, and social media co-ordinator for the 11th annual CSPC Conference.

2. As a Social Media Coordinator for the Women in Cognitive Science Canadian chapter, my role is to provide relevant online content on a national scale related to women in academia to further increase the knowledge and visibility of women in science, and present the success’s and issues directly impacting them;

3. As the elected Graduate Psychology Representative, (GSAÉD), I am responsible for conveying the needs and concerns of the Clinical and Experimental Psychology graduate programs via written and oral presentations to the GSAÉD board of directors

PUBLICITY DIRECTOR (2017-2019)

The Interdisciplinary Conference of Psychology is organized each year by graduate and undergraduate students at the School of Psychology of the University of Ottawa. As publicity director, I led ICP’s major publicity campaigns across the various web interfaces (Square space, Facebook, Instagram), class room presentations, poster/web designs, and abstract writing workshops. These strategies contributed to the largest attendee turn out for ICP, with international guests from the United Kingdom and Pakistan.

For more information, visit http://www.icp-cip.com/.

LTS VOLUNTEER EDUCATOR (2014-2018)

Let’s Talk Science (LTS) is a national organization where graduate and senior undergraduates present STEM related topics to help evoke an interest in science in children and youth. Primarily, as a volunteer educator, I presented hands-on workshops on science and technology subjects to classrooms and community groups across Ottawa. In addition to working in Ottawa, I have also had the opportunity to travel for presentations to the following at-risk communities in Ontario (ON) and Quebec (QC): Attawapiskat (ON), Waskagonish (QC), East Maine (QC), and Moosoney (ON). Although I no longer actively volunteer with LTS, I am developing cognitive psychology and neuroscience kits to be used in classrooms and workshops across Canada.

For more information, visit https://letstalkscience.ca/.