Biography

With a track record of working on visual discomfort, specifically trypophobia, for three years of his PhD at University of Essex, Aakash joined Jindal School of Psychology and Counselling in 2026. Whilst he is primarily interested in trypophobia and visual discomfort, his broad research interests include political psychology, children’s eating behaviour, disgust, and phobias and anxiety disorders.

Aakash has an undergraduate degree in English literature from the University of Delhi, and a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Essex. Whilst completing his PhD Psychology in trypophobia at Essex, Aakash also worked as a Graduate Lab Assistant and Research Assistant. Furthermore, he was awarded two small grants including the Ernst Becker grant.

At Jindal, Aakash is looking to boost his research profile with experiments in the field of psychophysics, visual discomfort, disgust, phobias, anxiety, consumer marketing and political psychology.