Biography

I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in Human Computer Interaction, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Department of Informatics at the King’s College London, and a Research Fellow at Linacre College at University of Oxford. In addition, I have visiting positions at the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry department at IoPPN (KCL), as well as Human Centred Computing group and Experimental Psychology 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).

The research in my group involves envisioning, designing, and evaluating new technology-enabled interventions for youth, targeting core protective factors underpinning personal wellbeing, with specific focus on emotion regulation and parenting). We draw on user-centred design methods to re-envision how psychological interventions can be delivered, collaborating with researchers and clinicians across the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Mental Health and Prevention Science. This research agenda led to awards at leading venues in the HCI field (e.g., CHI'24,CHI'22a,CHI'22b, CSCW'20, CHI'17); 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. Our current focus is on understanding the potential of gen-AI agentic interactions in these contexts (e.g., here for a latest pre-print).

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