I am passionate about using insights from the behavioural neurosciences to design digital technology that is sensitive to human limitations and biases, particularly in relation to attention and self-regulation.
My academic and professional background is highly interdisciplinary, and I try to integrate best practices from many work spheres, such as using tools from large-scale event management to structure academic projects.
My personal interests include backpacking, samatha meditation, dancing (Cuban salsa and swing), surfing, and playing music (often with my concept band the Karaoke Collective).
| year | what |
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| 2021 | Postdoctoral
Researcher Carlsberg Foundation & Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford |
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| 2016 | DPhil in Computer
Science, University of Oxford Supervisor: Sir Nigel Shadbolt Thesis: Examining the effectiveness of design patterns for digital self-control |
| 2012 | MSc in Cognitive and
Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford Supervisor: Oliver Curry Thesis: Fundamental motivations and risk-taking |
| 2011 | MA in the Study of
Religion & Psychology, Aarhus University Supervisor: Uffe Schjødt Thesis: Religion as a cultural tool for cognitive control |
| 2007 | BA in the Study of
Religion & Psychology, Aarhus University Supervisors: Jesper Sørensen and Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo Thesis: Priming effects of religious concepts on moral judgment |
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| 2020 | Winner of the 2020 Oxford Three Minute Thesis competition, Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, University of Oxford |
| Commendation Certificate for the Reducing Digital Distraction Workshop, MPLS Impact Awards, University of Oxford | |
| 2019 | Best Talk Award, 2019 Oxford Computer Science Conference, University of Oxford |
| Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for “Self-Control in Cyberspace…”, CHI’19: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | |
| 2018 | Best Paper Award for “Third party tracking…”, WebSci’18: ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam |
| 2017 | DOMUS Prize for Outstanding Research Communication, Linacre College, University of Oxford |
| year | what |
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| 2019 | EPSRC
Doctoral Prize, Supporting End-User Autonomy Over Digital
Device Use Supervisor: Nigel Shadbolt. Mentor: Max Van Kleek. |
| 2021 | Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellowship at University of Oxford, Understanding Personal Digital Self-Control Struggles and Appropriate Interventions |
| 2023 | EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account, Preparing the Reduce Digital Distraction (ReDD) Workshop for Impact across the UK higher education sector |
| Junior Research Fellow Grant, Lucy Halsall Fund, Support towards routine research expenses (software, subscriptions, and professional memberships) | |
| 2022 | Junior Research Fellow Grant, Lucy Halsall Fund, US research travel: visit to Human Centered Design & Engineering, UW, Seattle; participation in CHI’22, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 2021 | Junior Research Fellow Grant, Lucy Halsall Fund, Initial validation of measures for digital self-control |
| 2020 | van Houten
Fund, The Reducing Digital Distraction (ReDD) Workshop for
Oxford University students Supervisor: Maureen Freed. |
| 2018 | Student Research Competition Grant, CHI’18: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| 2017 | Workshop Travel Grant, Designing for Curiosity, CHI’17: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Student Research Competition Grant, CHI’17: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | |
| 2013 | Lienhard & Bagby Research Grant, Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford |
| year | what |
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| 2018 | What the Anti-Distraction Market Tells Us About Digital Technology and Self-Regulation, Connected Life Conference 2018 |
| 2018 | A Cognitive Design Space for Supporting Self-Regulation of ICT Use, 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health |
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| 2017 | Ulysses in Cyberspace: Evaluating the Anti-Distraction Market, Connected Life Conference 2017 |
| 2017 | Curiosity, ICTs and Attention Management: Evaluating the Emerging Anti-Distraction Market, Designing for Curiosity Workshop |
| 2014 | Wild Cooperation: Studying Real-World Reciprocity Using Couchsurfing.org, Morality: Evolutionary Origins and Cognitive Mechanisms |
| 2011 | NA |
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| 2021 | Interviewed in the episode ‘Død over digitale distraktioner’ (P1) |
| 2018 | Our paper “Third Party Tracking in the Mobile Ecosystem” covered in the media |
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| 2021 | Instructor, Reproducible
research with R Markdown Oxford|Berlin Summer School on Open Research 25 early career researchers (MSc, PhD, and postdocs). Taught a 2-hour workshop on workflows for reproducible data analysis and paper writing |
| 2020 | Teaching assistant, Big
Data Analytics Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford 20 master’s students. Taught the practical part of the class on analysing and visualising non-normally distributed data in R and RStudio |
| 2019 | Instructor, Reproducible
research with R Markdown TIER Faculty Development Workshop, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford 20 staff and faculty from research institutions across Europe. Developed and taught a 2-day master class in reproducible research |
| 2013 | Teacher, Introduction to
Evolutionary Psychology Oxbridge International Summer School 10 high school students. Organised and taught a 2-week course with group and individual tutorials |
| 2010 | Teaching assistant,
Philosophy, theory of science, and university
history Dept. for the Study of Religion, Aarhus University 20 undergraduate students. Taught a weekly supplementary seminar to the main lecture series |
| year | what |
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| 2016 | Reviewer ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), ACM CHI Conference, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies |
| 2018 | Steering group
member Transparent Statistics in Human-Computer Interaction |
| 2017 | President of the Computer
Science Graduate Society (CoGS) Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford |
| 2018 | Main conference organiser
and General Chair Oxford Computer Science Conference 2018, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford |
| 2016 | DPhil representative in
the Computer Science Graduate Society
(CoGS) Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford |
| 2012 | Executive committee member
in the London Evolutionary
Research Network (LERN) London, UK |
| 2008 | Chairman of the Society
for the Study of Religion (RvF) Dept. for the Study of Religion, Aarhus University |
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| 2020 | Data Scientist and Digital
Humanities Consultant Śākta Traditions, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford I provide practical support and consultancy on natural language processing methods for analysis and visualisation of large text corpora, using reproducible workflows in R Markdown. |
| 2019 | Research
Assistant RoboTIPS: Developing Responsible Robots for the Digital Economy Developed accident scenarios and investigation processes to inform responsible innovation in social robotics, with researchers at the Dept. of Computer Science in Oxford (lead: Prof. Marina Jirotka), and the Bristol Robotics Facility (lead: Prof. Alan Winfield). |
| 2017 | Web
developer Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford: SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines Built sociam.org, which archives outputs of a 5.5 year EPSCR research project involving 55+ researchers, 40+ projects, and 400+ publications. Developed from scratch in Drupal 7, assisted by two summer interns. Ongoing maintenance, feature development, and content curation. |
| 2017 | Bartender Linacre College, University of Oxford |
| 2013 | Festival Producer and
Manager Institute of Art and Ideas, London Generated ideas and wrote programme copy for 250+ panel debates for the internationally renowned philosophy and music festival HowTheLightGetsIn; interviewed (600+) and booked (150+) speakers, including Cory Doctorow, Aubrey de Grey, and Simon Baron-Cohen; led and managed a research team division of two full-time staff plus a music team of three full-time staff. |
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| 2022 | Invited participant to Dagstuhl Seminar on Transparent Quantitative Research as a User Interface Problem, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany |
| 2018 | Invited participant to the Global Dialogue for Happiness, World Government Summit, Dubai |
| 2017 | Leading for Impact fellow, 4-month leadership training programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford |
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| Programming, data analysis and visualisation in R (tidyverse), Python, and D3.js | |
| Reproducible research with R Markdown (bookdown, xaringan, pagedown) + LaTeX + HTML | |
| Web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Hugo, blogdown, Jekyll, GitHub Pages, Netlify) |
| year | what |
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| 2019 | oxforddown,
for reproducible thesis writing in R Markdown, formatted with a
traditional University of Oxford LaTeX template |
| 2019 | pagedown-cv,
for dynamically generating a curriculum vitae from data held in a
spreadsheet into a variety of output formats, using R Markdown and the
pagedown R package |
| 2018 | chi-2021-rmd-template,
chi20-papers-rmarkdown,
chi-proc-rmd-template
& chi-ea-template,
for writing reproducible submissions in R Markdown to the ACM CHI
conference |
| year | what |
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| 2021 | Newsfeed toggle for Facebook, browser extension that hides distracting UI elements on Facebook in the Safari browser on Mac and iOS |
| 2019 | “No Distractions” for YouTube, browser extension that hides distracting UI elements on YouTube in the Safari browser on Mac and iOS |
| 2019 | HighlightAds for Google Search, browser extension that adds a background color to search results on Google that are ads in the Safari browser on Mac |
| 2019 | “No Distractions” for Twitter, browser extension that hides distracting UI elements on Twitter in the Safari browser on Mac |
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| 2017 | Founding Band
Member The Karaoke Collective Inventor, MC, keyboard player, and drummer; the KC blends the fun of karaoke with the magic of a live band. |
| 2017 | Computer Science
Ambassador Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford I gave regular talks about my group’s and my personal research to 14-18 year old students from schools in the UK visiting the Dept. of Computer Science |
| 2017 | Steering committee member,
Oxford Scandinavian Society Co-organiser of ‘sittnings’ (traditional Scandinavian dinner- and drinking parties), movie nights, summer BBQs and more. Webmaster at oxfordscandinavian.com |
| 2017 | Head of Entertainment,
Linacre College Ball Planned, contracted, and produced 15+ acts, including a 30-piece swing band, funk orchestra, live karaoke, glitter fairy, space hopper race, treasure hunt and drumming DJ |
| 2013 | Interview
Coach Oxbridge Interviews, Oxfizz Provided interview training to 30+ teenagers from families not traditionally going to university wishing to apply to Oxford or Cambridge |