People

Deborah is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and a director of studies in Psychology at Lucy Cavendish College.

• Studied in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University, Israel. 
• M.A. in cognitive psychology at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Yonatan Goshen-Gottstein.
• Ph.D. with Morris Moscovitch at the University of Toronto, Canada.
• Post-doctoral training with Ray Dolan and Chris Frith at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in UCL.
• Senior lecturer at the University of Manchester until 2019, then moved to the University of Cambridge.
• A member of the Experimental Psychology Society, International Society for Research on Emotion, and the Memory Disorders Research Society.

Jordan Gunn is a postdoctoral researcher in the Emotional Cognition Lab at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University and a BA from Princeton University. His work examines how memory can bridge across related experiences without blurring their distinct details. In the Emotional Cognition Lab, he's developing computational models of how our emotions shape the encoding and retrieval of episodic memory.

Qiying (Kelly) is a PhD student at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Toronto. She is currently investigating the influence of emotion on temporal memory. In her spare time, she enjoys playing with her cat and travelling.

Kristian is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and a member of Clare College. He completed his MSc in Applied Cognitive Neuroscience and BSc in Psychology and Counselling at the University of Roehampton, London.
 

His research interests concern how different ‘states of mind’ influence how events are experienced and which aspects of those events are encoded into memory. Kristian's primary aim is to investigate individual differences metrics as predictors of emotional memory effects in controlled settings. He is especially interested in metacognition as a mechanism modulating the immediacy or emotional value of exogenous influence on phenomenology.

Jian Sun is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on investigating how emotional stimuli, such as scene pictures and facial expressions, influence similarity perception and memory using behavioral experiments, EEG, and fMRI. In his free time, he enjoys walking along the River Cam and capturing moments through photography.

Elif is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and a member of Darwin College. She completed her BSc and MSc in Psychology at Middle East Technical University in Turkiye. During her studies, she investigated memory processes, including the contiguity effect, event segmentation, and memory modeling. Her doctoral research will examine how emotion shapes episodic memory, with a particular focus on item recall and temporal context. In her spare time, she enjoys long walks, discovering new places, and spending time with cats.

Tommy is a full-time research assistant in the lab, currently working on several research projects which contrast the Dual-Representation Account of emotional memory with unitary accounts, such as the eCMR. 

He completed both his BSc in Psychology and MRes in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London (UCL). During his time at UCL, he was involved in research projects pertaining to social exclusion, the neuroendocrine stress response and traumatic memory formation. While his current work relies on behavioural measures of emotion and memory, he has prior experience with a range of neuroscientific approaches, including EEG, EMG, fMRI and TMS.