Biography

I am a senior lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Human Computer Interaction and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Department of Informatics at the King’s College London. In addition, I have visiting positions at the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry department at IoPPN (KCL), and the Human Centred Computing group at Oxford.

Before starting at King’s College London, I’ve been a Schroedinger fellow at UCLIC for my postdoc; and a research intern at Microsoft Research Redmond as well as a visiting researcher at the Nottingham Mixed Reality Lab during my PhD studies at Vienna University of Technology (supervised by Prof Geraldine Fitzpatrick).

My research involves envisioning, designing, and evaluating new technology-enabled interventions for youth, targetting core protective factors underpinning personal wellbeing (e.g., emotion regulation and parenting). As such, my research is positioned at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Mental Health, and Prevention Science. This research agenda so far led to ACM Best Paper awards at leading venues in the HCI field (e.g., CHI, CSCW); as well as a transfer of a novel emotion regulation intervention from a research prototype to a commercial product funded by the largest US non-profit developer of social-emotional learning programs, Committee for Children.

I’ve been incredibly lucky to have a number of amazing collaborators and mentors across KCL and elsewhere, including Oxford, Stanford, Nottingham, University of Washington, Simon Fraser University, University of Michigan, UCL, UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, Vienna University of Technology, and Committee for Children. None of the research so far—nor the current fellowship—would be possible without their kind help and support.