Dr Mahsa Barzy

Dr Mahsa Barzy completed their PhD at University of Kent in 2020, which focused on the role of perspective taking and social context on language processing in autistic and non-autistic adults. Once completed, Mahsa started a 2-year postdoc at University of Reading, researching visual perception of social interactions. Mahsa used both behavioural and online measures, such as EEG and eye-tracking to research these topics.

Currently, Mahsa is working as a postdoctoral research associate at the School of Psychology studying the cognitive basis of perspective-taking and prosocial behaviour in adolescents.

Grants and Awards

• Awarded £1320 by university of Reading as part of the undergraduate research opportunity -scheme (UROP), supporting staff and student in conducting research (PI).
• Nominated for the best UROP supervisor award at University of Reading
• £500 ECR Research grant awarded by Gorilla experiment Builder
• Nominated for the EPS Frith Prize
• Top downloaded paper in Wiley Publishing (2018-2019) on language processing in autism.
• €200 for an Invited talk at The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
• Best Talk at the University of Kent PhD Psychology Conference (2018- Staff Vote)
• $550 bursary to attend the Annual meeting of Society for the Neurobiology of Language (2018)
• £1000 events fund from University of Kent and Psychology Postgraduate Affairs group to hold a workshop on Bayesian Analysis for the graduate students across the UK (2017)
• £3200 UCLan Undergraduate Research Internship Programme (2014)
• £400 travel award to attend the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, The US (2015)