Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, UK
Dr Hamilton is a Professor in Social Neuroscience and leader of the Social Neuroscience group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL).
She completed a PhD on the impact of neuronal noise for the optimal control of human arm movements (UCL), and postdoctoral work on imitation in autism and brain systems for action understanding.
She was awarded the Experimental Psychology Society prize lectureship for 2013 and a Lundbeck Visting Professorship at the University of Copenhagen in 2021. She is currently Editor in Chief of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Her current research interests include how and why people imitate each other, how social skills differ in autism, and the neural mechanisms of face to face social interaction.
Email: a.hamilton@ucl.ac.uk