Dr. Aleya Marzuki

Dr Marzuki is a cognitive scientist with nearly a decade of experience researching mental health conditions. She is passionate about elucidating precisely how socioeconomic inequality contributes to disparities in mental health and cognitive functioning.

She was awarded her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2021, researching cognitive mechanisms driving obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescents. Following this, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Sunway University, Malaysia where she co-led the AGEWELL project, a mass study with extensive cognitive, neuroimaging, salivary, and interview data collected from 400 socioeconomically and ethnically diverse elderly participants. Next, during a postdoctoral research role in the University of Tübingen (Germany), Dr Marzuki leveraged advanced ecological momentary assessments to characterise how mental health symptoms fluctuate on a day-to-day basis and how these fluctuations interact with possible cognitive features.

Now as a King’s Prize Fellow in the Rakesh Lab, Dr Marzuki hopes to leverage her rich research background towards constructing explanatory models predicting acute mental health symptoms in adolescents experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage. Through elucidating specific environmental and cognitive mechanisms driving mental health crises, she aspires to develop interventions and policy considerations to support at-risk youth.