I am an Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. Prior to joining Imperial, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University. I received my PhD in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Broadly, I study self and identity processes. I am particularly interested in understanding how identity functions in relation to key features of modern society: demographic diversity, political fragmentation and fragility, and the diffusion of digital technology into all facets of life.

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Currently, I'm interesting in questions like:

• How do digital technologies influence our sense of self? How do they shape our understanding of who we have been and who we can become?

• What explains the rise of authoritarianism? How does authoritarianism manifest in people, organisations, and society? To what degree are digital technologies responsible for this rise?

• What are the intrapsychic and interpersonal causes and consequences of (self-)censorship?

• Why do some people feel less understood than others? What role do their identities----and the status and power associated with those identities----play?

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If you are interested in collaborating with me on these or related topics, feel free to email me. Information about applying to my department's PhD program can be found here.