About me

I received my PhD in Social/Personality Psychology (with a minor in Quantitative Methods) from the University of British Columbia. Following my PhD, I worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Toronto before assuming my current position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam.

I investigate fundamental questions about the emergence and utility of nonverbal behavior for the communication of emotion, personality, and social rank. When I’m not working you can find me playing basketball, refining my automated stock trading algorithm, travelling, or recording jazz on the trumpet and piano.

I also try to enjoy the little things in life, like when MTurkers provide funny responses to open-ended questions. Here’s my favorite: