Bio
Cognitive Science | Artificial Intelligence, Decentralised Finance, Neuroscience | reasonably irrational | Interdisciplinary Research: cognitive phenomena and social behaviour | Decision-making, bias, and pattern recognition expertise | Long-term odds: balance, cognitive control, discipline, emotional regulation, risk management | 8+ years in crypto |
Who am I & What to expect
Apparently (ir)rational cognitive scientist, perhaps unreasonably fond of too many things at once: AI, DeFi, nuroscience, tech/no and travel.
I approach markets, products, and online behaviour through one lens: how human cognition actually works under uncertainty, incentives, and social pressure.
My background is interdisciplinary cognitive science, with a strong focus on how cognitive phenomena and social behaviour co-shape one another, often producing outcomes that look irrational only if you assume people optimise perfectly.
Research lens: cognitive phenomena & social behaviour
A useful way to think about behaviour is as layered interaction: relatively neutral cognitive features, increasingly influenced perceptions, and fully conditioned social patterns.
These layers continuously co-effect and condition one another, which is exactly why decision-making, both personal and collective, rarely fits clean, rational models.
Core areas of focus
Mental health and distorted judgement: mood and perceptive disorders, anxiety, depression, and perception shifts that alter interpretation and choices.
Young people online: privacy, cybersecurity, unwanted exposure, and technology-driven developmental risks that spill into everyday and social conduct.
Practical cognition: CBT-adjacent techniques for identifying toxic thinking loops, strengthening cognitive control, and improving behavioural consistency, first applied to self, then to helping others.
Subject matter expertise (SME): decision-making & patterns
My work mainly focuses on how people make decisions: the biases we fall into, the shortcuts we take, and how culture and social context quietly shape behaviour.
I also cover mental health and risk-prone patterns, especially where emotion, stress, and group dynamics push judgement off course.
Relevant experience
Education and prevention programmes addressing addictive and risky behaviours, including gambling and social media risks.
Counselling support spanning mental health, quality of life, substance use, and cognitive and emotional control practices.
Research on treatment-resistant mental health conditions using data science, advanced statistics, and neuroimaging methods (EEG, fMRI), plus work on online youth behaviour and developmental risk.
Crypto: 8+ years
Crypto remains an ongoing learning environment, with frequent regime shifts and constant novelty.
My default approach is structured and data-led: charts, technical analysis, and explicit scoring or rule-based frameworks designed to reduce impulsivity and improve repeatability.
The long-term: mind & odds game
Over the long run, outcomes tend to converge on a few non-negotiables: balance and sustainability, cognitive control, emotional regulation, and risk management. Patience helps; stubbornness occasionally does too, in carefully controlled doses.
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