Irena Arslanova is an early-career fellow in cognitive neuroscience at Royal Holloway, University of London, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She wants to understand how the experience of time — which sometimes passes with dizzying speed, yet other times takes painstakingly long — arises from the workings of the brain. She is currently investigating how internal bodily signals, like the beating of the heart, can distort time. Born in Estonia, she moved to London at eighteen to study psychology, later earning a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London, where her research on touch and internal bodily signals evolved into her current work connecting the internal body to the perception of time.
