Francesca is a PhD student at the Department of Psychology and Human Development at UCL Institute of Education. She holds an MSc in ‘Clinical Mental Health Sciences’ achieved at the same university, and a BSc in Psychology of ‘Personality and interpersonal relationships’ from the University of Padua (Italy). Francesca's main research interests include understanding the aetiology and development of mental health problems and disorders – specifically, the role of reward processing and self-regulation. She then would like to extend her research to promote a change in the educational system in terms of inclusion, acknowledgment and promotion of different cognitive skills and abilities. Besides this, she would like to write a book targeting mental health and travel around the world to constantly expand her horizons.