Dr Valerie van Mulukom is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford Brookes University (UK) and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford (UK). She is also a visiting researcher at Coventry University. Her research focuses on the cognitive and evolutionary science of belief and imagination, and uses methods from experimental, social, and evolutionary psychology.
She received a PhD in the cognitive neuroscience of imagination at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, after which she held postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University and the University of Oxford. After 7.5 years at the Brain, Belief, and Behaviour Lab at Coventry University, she became a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford Brookes University.