Supervision
I am always enthusiastic to hear from potential PhD students. Please get in touch.
A PhD with me will involve using robust and open science methods to address theoretical ideas in cognitive science. Plus extensive mentoring on all aspects of the scholarly life, conducted in Sheffield’s best coffee shops.
Specific projects I am currently seeking students for are here. Some advice about applying is here.
Current PhD and postdoc supervision
Postdoc
Amber Copeland (2018–2025) on "Reinforcer-specific value-based decision-making in persistence of and recovery from alcohol use disorder"
Georgi Karadzhov (2024–2025) – “DEliBots – Deliberation Enhancing Bots” (at University of Cambridge)
PhD
Indro Adinugroho (2021–2025) – Investigating the Relation between Fundamentalism, Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Perceived Political Leadership toward Political Trust
Hazel Gordon (2021–2025) “Informing citizens? Effects of imprints on digital political advertising”
Ioanna Spentza (2017–) – Factors affecting Everyday Problem-Solving skills in Older Adults
Second supervisor to…
Vesko Varbanov (2020-) ‘ Sensory processing in Autism Spectrum Conditions and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder’
Previous supervision and examining
As primary PhD supervisor
Maria Panagiotidi, PhD 2017 ‘The Role of the Superior Colliculus in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder‘
Angelo Pirrone, PhD 2016 ‘Decision modelling insights in cognition and adaptive decision making‘
Despina Panagiotidou (co-supervised with Ana Vivas, City College, Thessaloniki), PhD 2015, ‘Distractor, Temporal, and Inhibitory Variations of the Distractor Devaluation Effect of Visual Selective Attention’
Tom Walton, PhD 2012, ‘The Discovery of Novel Actions‘
David Yates, PhD 2012, ‘Using eye-movements to elucidate architectures of object recognition and selection’
Cigir Kalfaoglu, PhD 2012, ‘Errors and error-detection during skilled typing‘
As a secondary PhD supervisor
Georgi Karadzhov (2019–2022) – “DEliBots – Deliberation Enhancing Bots” (at University of Cambridge)
Ozan Vardal (2018–2022) – Leveraging Big Data from eSports Games to Understand Human Skill Acquisition (At University of York)
Elena Petrovskaya (2019–2023) – Decision-making & e-sports (At University of York)
Amber Copeland (2018–2022) – ‘Value-based decision-making and self-control in alcohol-related behaviour change and recovery from addiction’
August Lindemer (2018-2022) ‘Planetary Fever – The Climate Change Communication of Health Professionals.’
Siham Albesisi (2018 - 2023) ’emotion regulation on ADHD children’
Stephanie Powell ‘ The relationship and effects of young children’s use of technology’
Máté Gyurkovics – ‘Affective factors in cognitive control: Behavioural and neural investigations in adults and adolescents’
Stephanie Armstrong ‘Relation between the Executive Function development and the reading acquisition, from a neuropsychological view’
Andreas Bunge (Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield), “The mental structure of prejudice”, February 2018
Luana Nunes, “Ethological Decision Making with Non-Stationary Inputs Using MSPRT Based Mechanisms” May 2017
Alvin Pastore (Department of Computer Science), “Neuroeconomics, Reinforcement learning and the equity premium puzzle” January 2017
Stephanie Dunn (with Elizabeth Milne and Megan Freeth), PhD 2016 ‘Electrophysiological correlates of visual search in the autism spectrum’
Hamideh Kerdegari (supervised with Tony Prescott), PhD 2016 ‘Head-mounted Sensory Augmentation System for Navigation in Low Visibility Environments’
Tom Bullock (supervised with Elizabeth Milne and Dick Eiser), 2012, ‘Crossmodal Load and Selective Attention’
Research Associate Supervision
Zarha Arjmandi Lari, 2022 - 2023
Dagmar Adamcová, 2017–2018: “Quit while you’re ahead: a surprising interaction between game performance and motivation” (Blog post, Jupyter notebook). Erasmus exchange
Post doctoral supervision
Junyan Zhu (2020–2023)
Lotty Brand (2020–2023)
Mariana Leriche, 2014–2016
Robin Scaife, 2013–2017
Jen Lewis, 2012–2013
Craig Bertram, 2012–2013
Martin Thirkettle, 2008–2012
Examining
Matthew Warburton, University of Leeds, 8 March 2024
Nick Simonsen, University of Nottingham, 18 October 2023
Danielle Beaton, University of Sheffield, 23 November, 2022
Emma Henderson, Kingston University London, 17 September 2021
Stanislava Naneva, University of Sheffield, 11 November 2020
Andrea Caso, Birkbeck, University of London, 1 July 2019
Athanasios Kokkinakis, University of York, 12 March 2019
Alejandro Jimenez Rodriguez, University of Sheffield, 15 February 2019
Jim Lumsden, University of Bristol, 19 October 2018
Conor Heapy, University of Sheffield, 4 May 2018
Joe Thompson, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 30 April 2018
Jonathan Glancy, University of Sheffield, 2 December 2016
Christian Beyle Sandoval, University of Sheffield, 9 October 2015
Maria Dagioglou, University of Birmingham, 7 April 2014
Jennifer Lewis, University of Sheffield, 2012
David Cameron, University of Sheffield, 2011
Alexander Cope, University of Sheffield, 2011
Mike Roberts, University of Sheffield, 21st October, 2010