She has published several scientific journal articles on emotion attribution and neural heterogeneity in autism spectrum disorders. She obtained her Masters Degree in Genetics and her Ph.D. on the neural correlates of emotion attribution from facial expressions in high functioning individuals with social communication difficulties from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She undertook her post-doctoral training focusing on the genetic and imaging correlates of emotion attribution in autism spectrum disorders in the Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University.