Alumni
Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar
Senior ResearcherAfter leaving the UEA, Sobana took up the post of Lecturer at the University of Stirling. She has since moved to the University of Nottingham where she is Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology. Her research focuses on investigating the mechanisms underlying executive functions across the spectrum of life using a suite of behavioural measures, neuroimaging techniques and computational modelling. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychology/people/sobanawartiny.wijeakumar
Dr. Ajaz Bhat
Senior Research AssociateDr Ajaz Ahmad Bhat is now working as an Assistant Professor of Intelligent Robotics at the Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei and a visiting researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. His research aims are to connect cognitive science, AI and robotics to understand the brain's way of governing behaviours and to design intelligent machines that assist us in understanding our own intelligence. Cognitive Robotics | Computational Models of Brain and Behaviour (wixsite.com)
Dr. Samuel Forbes
Senior Research AssociateAfter leaving the Developmental Dynamics lab in the Summer of 2021, Sam took up a position of Assistant Professor in Developmental Science at Durham University. His research will focus on the environmental, physical and cognitive factors that influence early word learning.
Dr. Laura Colosimo
PhD StudentFollowing completion of her PhD at the UEA, Laura now works as an analyst in the game based innovations lab at McKinsey and Company, Greater Los Angeles. Laura is part of the innovations team who design, develop, and deploy games and interactive applications that evaluate people’s cognitive skills through simulation based assessments. She also works part-time at the University of California in the Psychology department, teaching developmental research methods. Laura Colosimo Linked In
Dr. Lourdes Delgado Reyes
PhD StudentLourdes completed her PhD at the UEA in 2019. Her doctoral work in the DD Lab focused on exploring the neurobehavioral precursors of executive function in early development. Dr. Delgado Reyes is currently a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania where she works under the mentorship of Dr. Allyson Mackey in the Changing Brain Lab. Her work examines how children's early environments impact neurocognitive development, with a focus on structural brain development, executive function, attention, and learning. The primary goal of her work is to understand how to best create environments that foster optimal child development and learning. https://psychology.sas.upenn.edu/people/lourdes-delgado-reyes
Dr. Laia Fibla Reixachs
After completing her PhD in Developmental Psychology at the UEA, Laia moved to Montreal to join the Concordia Infant Research Lab. Here she is helping to research language development in bilingual infants. http://infantresearch.ca/team