Dorota Ali recently submitted her PhD with the ReSpect Lab, supervised by Francesca Happé, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at King's College London, and Will Mandy, Professor of Neurodevelopmental Conditions at University College London. She is funded by the Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP) via the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC).

Dorota’s research centres around 'burnout' as experienced by autistic people. She is taking a mixed-methods approach, quantitatively exploring the relationships between burnout, and experiences that may be relevant to burnout (e.g., ’camouflaging’), as well as qualitatively exploring the subjective experiences of ‘autistic burnout’ by those who have experienced it.

Dorota has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Open University and an MSc in Neuroscience from King’s College London.