My background is in psychometry and research psychology. My research interests include the epidemiology, identification, assessment, prevention and treatment of anxiety disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in particular. I was involved in all aspects of these studies: drawing up research protocols, ethics application, application for approval from recruitment sites, recruitment of participants, data collection (clinical interviews, self-report questionnaires, neuropsychological testing), data entry, data analyses and writing of the manuscripts. I am currently working as a Research Psychologist at the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, where I the focus of my research is on the clinical and neuropsychological, genetic and biological predictors of PTSD. I am a key member of Shared Roots (SR) - a collaborative project looking at the shared factors underlying neuropsychiatric disorders and modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease, where I led the neurocognitive testing, and am currently involved in writing up this data. I am also a member of the SA PTSD and the