Dr Marzuki is a King's Prize Fellow within the Department of Neuroimaging. Her fellowship aims to address precisely how socioeconomic inequality contributes to disparities in mental health and cognitive processing.

She was awarded her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2021, researching cognitive mechanisms driving obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescents. Following this, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Sunway University (Malaysia) where she co-led the AGEWELL project, a mass study with extensive cognitive, neuroimaging, salivary, and interview data collected from 400 socioeconomically and ethnically diverse elderly participants. Next, during a postdoctoral research role in the University of Tübingen Germany), Dr Marzuki leveraged advanced ecological momentary assessments to characterise how mental health symptoms fluctuate on a day-to-day basis and how these fluctuations interact with possible cognitive features.

Now as a King’s Prize Fellow in the Department of Neuroimaging, Dr Marzuki hopes to leverage her rich research background towards constructing explanatory models predicting acute mental health symptoms in adolescents experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage. Through elucidating specific environmental and cognitive mechanisms driving mental health crises, she aspires to develop interventions and policy considerations to support at-risk youth.

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Key publications

• Marzuki et al., 2024. Mapping computational cognitive profiles of aging to dissociable brain and sociodemographic factors. npj.
• Thanaraju et al., 2024. Structural and functional brain correlates of socioeconomic status across the life span: A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
• Marzuki et al., 2021. Association of Environmental Uncertainty With Altered Decision-making and Learning Mechanisms in Youths With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. JAMA Network Open.
• Marzuki et al., 2022. Atypical action updating in a dynamic environment associated with adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
• Marzuki et al., 2025. Metacognitive antecedents to states of mental ill-health: Drops in confidence precede symptoms of OCD. Research Square.