Colleges
Collaborators
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Cathy Creswell
Paul Foundation Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology
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Paul Salkovskis
Professor of Clinical Psychology
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Omid V. Ebrahimi
Career Development Research Fellow
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Lucy Bowes
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology
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Simona Skripkauskaite
ESRC/ADR Fellow
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Jiedi Lei
Paul Foundation Clinical Research Fellow
Alex Lau-Zhu
PhD, DClinPsy, CPsychol
MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow
- NIHR Oxford Health BRC Senior Research Fellow
- Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Oxford Health
- Committee for Children Research Fellow, Linacre College
Considering DPhil students for the next application cycle. I am particularly looking for students who are keen to use experimental methods, but open to other approaches too.
I am a Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, and part of the senior leadership team for the Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research. I lead the reimaginelab where our flagship focus is on youth trauma and mental health through the science of imagination - replaying the past and envisioning the future. We take an experimental, developmental, and clinical approach, and integrate theories through a cognitive lens. Our curiosity on imagery is placed within wider transdiagnostic processes and intervention contexts, and extends from trauma to anxiety and neurodiversity.
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