I completed my PhD, examining visual perception without awareness, at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL) with Prof Jon Driver in 2002. I was then awarded a personal MRC Research Fellowship. This fellowship, held at the ICN and Institute of Neurology with Prof Masud Husain, examined deficits in attention, spatial perception and integration across eye movements in patients with right parietal lobe brain damage. At the start of 2005 I took up a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship to continue patient research at the Neuropsychology Laboratory of the Fondazione Santa Lucia in Rome, Italy. After this I was a Lecturer and the Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London.

In December 2014 I became a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London and admissions tutor for our new BSc in Psychology.

I study visual attention with behavioural studies on healthy individuals, neuropsychological studies on patients with brain damage and in neuroimaging (fMRI) investigations of both these groups. 

Interest in the neuropsychology of attention has led to a focus on the parietal cortex and recent projects examining the role of these regions in memory for personal experiences (episodic memory).

My current research in episodic memory concerns the use of spatial representation in this form of memory and how this changes across the lifespan: from infants to old age.