Research Interests
I have broad interests in the physical, social, and biological sciences. My main interest is in the brain’s reward system. Put simply: how does it work, and why? I explore mathematical and computational theories that constrain how it should work, and then test the predictions of these theories against behavioral and neuroimaging data. There are two strands to this agenda. The first asks, how do reward computations help shape behaviour to regulate the physiological systems of the body. The second strand draws on physics. I am interested in the constraints that ergodicity imposes on decision-making, and whether such considerations can also offer a unified explanatory account of a number of disparate decision-making phenomena.
