Greetings everyone! I am currently a third-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at Florida Atlantic University under the advisement of Dr. Andrzej Nowak. In these upcoming years, I aim to understand self-processes using computational and dynamical methodology.

I graduated with departmental honors from Florida Atlantic University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology after completing my senior thesis in Spring 2023. I also completed and defended my thesis requirement for my Master of Arts degree at Florida Atlantic University in Spring 2026.

Presently, I work in the Dynamical Social Psychology Lab under the advisement of Dr. Andrzej Nowak. My research centers on two primary areas. First, in collaboration with Dr. Robin Vallacher, Dr. Andrzej Nowak, and Dr. Geoffrey Wetherell, I study how to influence opinions and behaviors related to scientific messaging using Action Identification Theory. Second, our lab is developing a motivation scale to examine how different motivational orientations operate across diverse life domains.


Throughout my undergraduate career, I dedicated over a year to Dr. Michael Maniaci's Close Relationships Lab as a research assistant and an honor's researcher. I founded a collaboration with one of his current students to create a weekly professional development session for research assistants from both the Close Relationships Lab and the Dynamical Social Psychology Lab.

I am interested in how self-processes are maintained and expressed within social interactions. This includes examining how levels of Action Identification Theory shape behavior, how self-verification processes influence perceptions of social interactions, and how tendencies toward self-reflection affect individuals’ self-perceptions.

I study how the self guides attentional processes, particularly in domains such as visual attention. My goal is to understand the bidirectional relationship between how individuals engage with their environment and how those interactions inform their self-concept.

I am interested in developing scoping reviews as a way to synthesize existing research, identify gaps in the literature, and guide future inquiry. I aim to extend this work into other types of reviews as I learn more about them.