I’m Merrick, a PhD candidate in computational behavioural/cognitive science at the University of Melbourne, advised primarily by Frank, and co-supervised by Prof. Andrew Perfors. I have a bachelors in experimental psychology and analytic philosophy, but in my PhD I am focused on computational modelling of cognitive processes.

Presently, I am focused on developing a computational account of human strategic behaviour. I am interested in how people discover new strategies from scratch, and how they choose from their existing strategies adaptively – across a bunch of tasks from symbolic problem solving to linguistic coordination.

I am also the secondary caretaker of a cat, and the primary caretaker of many plants.