Marina started her PhD in October 2023 under the supervision of Prof Amy Milton. Her research project focuses on studying how stress, particularly early life stress, affects the development of compulsivity in rodent models of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Prior to starting her PhD, Marina completed a BA (Hons) in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and a MRes in Cognitive Neurosciences at University College London (UCL). She also worked as a research assistant in Prof Dominik Bach's lab (UCL), developing a virtual reality paradigm to investigate the learning and extinction of avoidance behaviours.
