I spend a lot of time thinking about how people learn, teach, and think about math.
I am most generally interested in how people learn abstract concepts and relations, particularly in math. To better understand this topic, I investigate questions about children's early intuitions and informal learning, as well as how formal education interacts with these informal intuitions. I currently work as a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Susan Levine's Cognitive Development Lab at the University of Chicago.
I am most generally interested in how people learn abstract concepts and relations, particularly in math. To better understand this topic, I investigate questions about children's early intuitions and informal learning, as well as how formal education interacts with these informal intuitions. I currently work as a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Susan Levine's Cognitive Development Lab at the University of Chicago.
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My interest in math did not start in psychology, but in math itself: I did my undergraduate Math degree at McMaster University. But, after doing an honors thesis on university students' attitudes toward math with Dr. Miroslav Lovric and summer research on numerical cognition in psychology with Dr. Daniel Ansari in the Numerical Cognition Lab, I turned toward math cognition in graduate school. I did my Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Boston College with Dr. Sara Cordes, investigating how people think about rational numbers and the underlying quantities they represent. Find out more in my research section!
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In addition to research, I also like reading, baking, dancing, crocheting, learning about history, and reading about math.
