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2024

Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal, Montreal, CA 14/03/2024

Panelist : Intelligence Artificielle (IA) et santé mentale

2023

ISHPSSB Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA 14/07/23

Developmental Niche Construction and Ecosocial Psychiatry

Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, CA 27/07/23

Looping effects in clinical practice

SSPC Conference, University of San Diego, San Diego, USA 30/04/23

Looping effects in clinical practice

Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, CA 21/04/23

Cognitive assessments in computational psychiatry

2019

Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, CA 31/06/19

Integrating Evolutionary Cultural and Computational Psychiatry

Orygen Centre for Youth Mental Health, Melbourne, ASTL 05/06/19

A simulation study of the Social Risk Hypothesis of Depression

University of Melbourne, Melbourne, ASTL 04/06/19

A simulation study of the Social Risk Hypothesis of Depression

Macquarie University, Sydney, ASTL 04/03/19

Mapping and modelling the cognitive niche with active inference

2018

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging, London, UK 05/10/18

Brain meeting: Ecological inheritance and active inference

Utting Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023

CAD 55,000 (accepted in part)

USYD PhD Completion Scholarship 2022

AUD 7,000

Andrew Donald Campbell Memorial Prize 2021

AUD 380

Lucy Firth Publication Prize 2019

AUD 1,000

Postgraduate Scholarship in the Philosophy of Biomedicine 2019-2023

AUD 110,000

Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship 2019-2023

CAD 80,000

Instructor

W2024 | Introduction to the philosophy of science | PHI1130 | University of Montreal

Guest lectures

S2023 | 29th Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry | University McGill

W2023 | Philosophy of Mind | PHIL606 | University McGill

S2022 | 28th Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry | University McGill