Rosalind completed a BA in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, with a particular interest in psychopharmacology and behavioural neuroscience. After a few years away from academia working as a teaching assistant in Spain, Rosalind began a double masters in Brain and Mind Sciences across UCL and Sorbonne/Ecole Normale Superieur. Her research project in her first year examined the impact of vagus nerve stimulation on self-compassion. Following this research on compassion, Rosalind became interested in approaches that are focused on promoting human flourishing, allowing people to live engaged and meaningful lives. Rosalind then moved to Paris for her second masters degree, where she researched the role of the mystical experience as a determinant of positive psychedelic experiences via changes to visual illusion processing and self-biases. 

Rosalind is completing her first rotation project under the ‘Mechanism’ theme in the Molecular Nociception lab under the supervision of Prof James Cox. Rosalind is loving the wet-lab experience, but knows that mental health research cannot be confined to a microscope alone. For her final PhD project, Rosalind wants to add anthropology, critical psychiatry, molecular neuroscience and social research into a pot, mix it up, and see what comes out. 

In her spare time, Rosalind enjoys learning too many languages at the same time and rock climbing. She also works part-time as a pub quiz mistress.