Research Programme

My research programme is organised around three interconnected pillars: adaptive individuals, adaptive families and adaptive teams.

Adaptive Individuals

How do people adapt to stress—and how can adaptive coping be strengthened?

Stress is an inevitable part of life, yet individuals differ remarkably in how they perceive, regulate and respond to challenging situations. My research examines the behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying adaptive coping, emotional regulation and resilience, with the goal of understanding not simply whether people cope, but how adaptive coping develops through repeated experiences.

This work combines neuroscience, behavioural measurement and digital technologies to investigate how emotional responses, cognitive appraisals and coping strategies interact across diverse real-world situations.

Current research includes the development of evidence-based digital interventions, longitudinal behavioural analytics and adaptive resilience technologies that support personalised coping, resilience training and mental wellbeing.

Key research themes

  • Adaptive coping and resilience

  • Stress and emotional regulation

  • Behavioural adaptation

  • Digital mental health interventions

  • Longitudinal behavioural intelligence

  • Personalised resilience development

Adaptive Families

How do relationships shape resilience across the lifespan?

Relationships are among the most powerful environments in which human adaptation occurs. Parents regulate children's emotions long before children learn to regulate themselves. Couples navigate adversity together. Families continually influence one another's capacity to cope, recover and thrive.

My research explores these relational processes in home and work-home interfaces, examining how interactions between parents and children, couples and caregivers shape brain activity, behaviour and emotional regulation. I investigate how stress, attachment, caregiving and communication influence adaptive functioning across development, and how healthy relationships build resilience over time.

The long-term vision of this research is to develop evidence-based interventions and intelligent technologies that strengthen family relationships, support caregivers and improve resilience across generations.

Key research themes

  • Parent-child relationships

  • Couple relationships

  • Caregiving and family resilience

  • Attachment and emotional regulation

  • Relational neuroscience

  • Brain-to-brain dynamics

  • Family interaction analytics

Adaptive Teams

How do people learn, communicate and solve problems together?

Many of today's most important challenges cannot be solved by individuals working alone. Effective collaboration requires people to coordinate attention, exchange ideas, regulate disagreement and build shared understanding. Increasingly, these interactions also involve artificial intelligence.

My research investigates the behavioural and neural foundations of collaboration across educational and workplace settings. Drawing upon relational neuroscience, learning sciences and artificial intelligence, I examine how communication patterns, interpersonal coordination and collaborative processes influence learning, stress, group relationships and team performance.

This research extends beyond understanding collaboration to designing technologies that strengthen it. By integrating behavioural analytics with AI-supported learning environments, my work aims to develop intelligent systems that improve collaborative problem solving, teamwork and human-AI interaction.

Key research themes

  • Collaborative learning

  • Team communication

  • AI-supported collaboration

  • Human-AI interaction

  • Interaction analytics

  • Collaborative problem solving

  • Technology-enhanced learning