I am an experimental cognitive scientist studying the links between joint action, communication, and learning. In particular, I am interested in how people acquire skills and technical know-how through social interactions with other people; how people use their existing skills and knowledge about the task and other people to encode and readout relevant information from instrumental movements, and the long-term consequences for this communication both at the individual level (e.g. how does online communication with a teacher affect what and how a student learns the skill?) and population level (how does the information change as it passes from person to person?)

I am currently a Visiting Scientist as the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, where I am supported by a fellowship for experienced researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation investigating the kinematic signature of pedagogical intentions in teachers’ demonstrations.