Profile

My CV

• Education:

  I mostly went to school in Uruguay – I did GCSE equivalent there (12 subjects) and then I did international baccalaureate there (Humanities: philosophy, history, sociology, maths theory and practical, literature, English, Italian). I also had 18 months of schooling in Naples, Florida at a small school called Seacrest Country Day School.

• Qualifications:

  GCSE equivalent from Uruguay: philosophy, history, sociology, maths, literature, English, astronomy, music, PE, chemistry, physics, civic education, geography.

  Birkbeck, University of London: BSc Psychology
  Goldsmiths, University of London: MSc in Statistics for Psychology
  University College London: PhD in Genetic Epidemiology

• Work History:

  Market research – call centre job – TNS (now Kantar Operations)

  Child minder – for two families part time while doing my degree at Birkbeck in the evenings.

  Research Analyst (freelance) for Wavemetrix – collecting data about films and other media-related things online and collating into a database.

  Research Assistant (freelance) – Orla Cronin Research Ltd. Assisting the psychologist (Orla) with lots of research projects and organising things for her.

  Customer services assistant – dry cleaners inside BNP Paribas bank – the gap year between my master’s and PhD.

  Personal Assistant to a psychotherapist – in her home and office in Marylebone. I booked travel for her, organised her diary, kept her company and we developed a friendship.

  Private Tutor – for various agencies and also independently via putting up adverts at universities.

  Post graduate teaching assistant – during my PhD I assisted with teaching.

  Seminar Leader – Birkbeck, University of London – during my PhD and before.

• Current Job:

  I work as a postdoctoral researcher at UCL and also am a guest lecturer on several courses at UCL and other institutions.