Biography

December 26, 2009

Gaëlle Villejoubert is a senior lecturer in psychology at Kingston University London. She lectures on cognitive processes, ergonomics, and human-machine interactions.

She was Maître de Conférences at the Université de Toulouse Le Mirail, France, between February 2006 and September 2009 where she was a member of the Cognition, Language, Languages and Ergonomics lab. From 2001 till 2005, she lectured on Decision Sciences at the Leeds University Business School, U.K., and sat on the executive committee of the Leeds Centre for Decision Research. In 2005, she was awarded a one-year research grant from the Fondation Fyssen to pursue her own post-doctoral research.

She sits on the executive committee of the European Association for Decision Making and she is the newsletter editor of the EADM Bulletin and the website Administrator of the EADM website.

She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Hertfordshire in March 2004. She also holds a Psychology Degree and a M.Sc. in Experimental Social Psychology from the Université de Paris-X-Nanterre.

Her research focuses on the study of the cognitive processes and pragmatic inferences underlying reasoning, judgement, and decision-making. She publishes her research in international journals such as Applied Cognitive Psychology, Cognition, Memory & Cognition, Psychological Science, and Thinking & Reasoning.