Alex Lau-Zhu

Accepting DPhil applications for next academic cycle

I am a Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. I lead the reimaginelab where our flagship focus is on promoting youth mental health through the science of imagination. The current clinical focus is on anxiety, trauma, and neurodiversity. Our curiosity on imagery is placed within wider transdiagnostic processes and intervention contexts.

Clinically, I work with complex trauma and sexual harm in young people at Oxford Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Horizon). I hold a scientific affiliation at Imperial College London and a Committee for Children Research Fellowship at Linacre College.

I am also committed to supporting diversity in academic and clinical psychology careers.

Brief Bio & Previous Appointments

My clinical-academic career is UK-based, though I grew up between Peru and China, giving me a cross-cultural perspective that informs both my research and clinical work.

2023-24: Research Tutor and Clinical Psychologist, OXICPT, Oxford Health NHS

2019-22: Clinical Psychologist in training (BABCP accreditation), University of Oxford

2016-18: Postdoctoral Research Associate, SGDP IOPPN, King’s College London

2013-16: Cambridge International Scholar, MRC CBU, University of Cambridge

2012-13: Low-Intensity Therapist, Sutton & Merton IAPT, London

2011-12: Assistant Psychologist, Traumatic Stress Clinic, London

2008-11: BSc (Hons) Psychology, University College London (Global Excellence & Ernest Hecht Scholar)

2007-8: General Studies in Liberal Arts, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru

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