I completed my PhD in cognitive media studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden in 2019. There, I studied the cognitive processes and physiological reactions related to engaging with audiovisual content on smartphones and other portable devices. During my doctoral studies, I was a visiting researcher at Aalto University, Finland (School of Science, Aalto Behavioral Laboratory and Department of Media) and at UCD (School of Psychology). After the PhD, I moved my research focus to extended reality experiences and how they affect human-to-computer and human-to-human interactions: I have researched the impacts of virtual environments and the use of avatars or XR-manipulated bodies on cognitive and neural processes, social behaviours, identity, as well as the dilemmas around the prevalence of artificial digital agents and personal data collected in XR spaces. I completed post-doc fellowships in China and Canada and was a lecturer in cognitive science and media entrepreneurship at the University of Gothenburg. Before joining UCD, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the ADAPT Centre at Trinity College. My research interests cover a wide range of topics across cognitive science and digital media and creative technologies.
I’m originally from Budapest, Hungary but spent more than a decade in Sweden, so feel free to ask me anything about goulash, the Rubik’s cube, surströmming (the extremely smelly fish), or how to pronounce Greta Thunberg’s name. When I’m not an academic, I’m a choral singer (@CuoreChoir), I do inline-skating and ice-skating marathons, and am exploring the hidden corners of the world and Ireland
