Nicholas Furl

Nicholas Furl is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), UK. His research focuses on social perception, decision-making mechanisms, and face perception, employing neuroimaging techniques. He holds a PhD in Cognition and Neuroscience from UT Dallas and completed postdoctoral training at University College London (UCL) and the NIH. Prior to RHUL, he was affiliated with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.

Education: B.S. in Psychology (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ph.D. in Cognition and Neuroscience (UT Dallas). His work spans 32 peer-reviewed publications, including contributions to journals like Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience and Trends in Cognitive Sciences. He leads three funded research projects on decision-making mechanisms, facial expression encoding, and neural representation of faces, supported by the Bial Foundation and ESRC.

Research highlights include studies on foraging strategies, delusional belief resistance, and the role of caricatured facial movements in emotion perception. His lab (FurlLab) collaborates internationally and maintains an active Twitter presence (@FurlLab). No specific awards are listed, though his projects indicate sustained research impact.