Paula has a BA and BSc from University College Utrecht, an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Maastricht, and an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Oxford. She has just completed her PhD under the supervision of Jill O’Reilly and Laurence Hunt at the University of Oxford. She investigates how people use active information search to guide current and future decisions using fMRI and large-scale online behavioural data collection.