- Postdoctoral Research Associate
I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Computer Science & Technology of the University of Cambridge. I am a member of the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AFAR) under the supervision of Prof. Hatice Gunes.
My research examines how people disclose their emotions and needs to social robots, and how these, in turn, can support their well-being. I am developing robotic agents that facilitate rich social interactions with human users to support their emotional health in a variety of contexts.
Biography
I pursued my PhD studies as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Emily S. Cross (University of Glasgow), Prof. Val Morrison (University of Bangor), and co-supervision of Prof. Andrea Gaggioli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) at the Social Robots and Social Brain in Action labs at the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology of the University of Glasgow. I was an ESR member of ENTWINE, the European Training Network on Informal Care, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovation Training Network (ITN) funded by the European Union. I conducted my Research Master’s studies at the University of Amsterdam. Under the supervision of Dr Theo Araujo, my research was mainly focused on topics such as human-agent cooperation, personalized interactions, and the role of lexical features in agents’ embodied cognition.
