About

Jessica L. Hazelton completed her Psychology Bachelor’s degree with honours at the University of Wollongong, Australia in 2015. She worked for several years as a research assistant at FRONTIER, the younger onset dementia clinic in Sydney, Australia, before starting her PhD in 2019 under the supervision of Prof Fiona Kumfor and Prof Olivier Piguet.

Jessica’s PhD work investigated social cognitive abilities in frontotemporal dementia and healthy ageing, with a focus on brain-body interactions. She has a strong research background in social cognition, structural neuroimaging, and psychophysiology techniques. Jessica is currently a postdoctoral researcher at BrainLat in Argentina, under the supervision of Dr Agustín Ibañez.

She is currently focusing on functional neuroimaging techniques to investigate allostasis, interoception, and symptom profiles in neurodegenerative diseases. Jessica currently acts as the lead internal communications officer for the ISFTD EMCR committee. When she’s not researching things about brains and bodies, she enjoys travelling, crafting, gardening, and cooking.