Employment

Present Appointments
2011 –
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Kingston University London, Department of Psychology.
2006 –
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, City University London, Department of Psychology.

Previous Appointments
2010 – 2011
Lecturer in Psychology, Kingston University London, Department of Psychology.

2008 (June-August)
Visiting Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo, Department of Cognitive and Behavioural Science.

2005 – 2006
Research Associate, University College London, Department of Psychology.

2002 – 2005
Research Associate, University of Warwick, Department of Psychology.

Education
2003 – 2007
PhD, Teesside University, Department of Psychology.

1998 – 2000
MSc. in Economics, New Bulgarian University.

1993 – 1997
BSc. in Psychology, New Bulgarian University, Department of Psychology.

Funded Research Grants and Awards
2010 – The British Academy, small research grant. Research fellow and Co-investigator: Professor Ayton, Dr Kusev (Kingston University, City University), Professor van Schaik (Teesside University), Dr Johansson (UCL) and Dr Tsaneva (Bristol University). Choice Blindness and Human Preferences.

2009 – Nuffield Foundation, small research grant. Research fellow and Co-investigator: Professor Ayton, Dr Kusev (City University), Professor van Schaik (Teesside University). Memory and human preferences: How accessibility affects judgments and decision prospects.

2008 – The British Academy, small researches grant. Research fellow and Co-investigator: Professor Ayton, Dr Kusev (City University), Professor van Schaik (Teesside University). Memory-biased preferences: The influence of accessibility on risky decision-making.

2006 – ESRC research grant, Research fellow and Co-investigator: Professor Ayton, Dr Kusev (City University, London), Professor van Schaik (Teesside University), & Professor Chater (University College London). Improving people’s protective decision-making.

Individual Research Awards/Grants

2009 – City University London, Pump-Priming Award. Principal Investigator. Memory and contextual biases in risky preferences.

2008 – JSPS grant (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). Principal Investigator. Nominated by The British Council - a collaborative research with the University of Tokyo (Professor Shigemasu) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Professor Yamagishi). Memory-biased preferences with judgments and decision prospects.

2008 – The annual Jane Beattie Memorial Scholarship (SJDM, EADM).

2007 – Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. Probabilistic models of cognition: The mathematics of mind. Summer school attendance.

2007 – Experimental Psychology Society, UK.  Grindley Grant for conference attendance.

2008 – Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, City University London.

Editorial
Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Cognition – 2011, (special issue on Human Preferences and Risky Choices). I regularly act as referee for journals including The Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, Cognitive Science, JEP:LMC. I have acted as a referee for grant applications submitted to the BBSRC, ESRC, and Research Council Romania.

Professional Societies
2008 – The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Alumni).
2008 – European Association for Decision-Making.
2007 – Psychonomic Society, USA.
2007 – Association for Psychological Science, USA.
2007 – Behavioural Brain Science, USA.
2006 – Society for Judgment and Decision-Making, USA.
2005 – London Judgment and Decision-Making Group.