Nura Sidarus

Nura Sidarus is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, at Royal Holloway University of London. Nura completed an MSc and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, at University College London, before receiving a Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the École Normale Supérieure, in Paris. Her research investigates how we monitor our actions and their consequences, and come to feel in control of them, and how this interacts with decision-making and learning. Combining cognitive, computational, and neuroimaging methods, her work aims to elucidate the (meta)cognitive mechanisms that support how we monitor and control our cognition and our actions. Thanks to an ESRC New Investigator Grant, she is also starting to explore how these (meta)cognitive processes may become maladaptive and underlie mental health problems, such as depression.