Dr. Zulkayda Mamat earned her doctorate in Medical Sciences (Cognitive Neuroscience) from Trinity College at University of Cambridge. During her doctoral studies, she mostly focused on the intersection between thought control and mental wellbeing. Her primary research project was to develop a videoconferencing & app-based cognitive training program to suppress unwanted worries to improve mental wellbeing. She also developed a survey to examine selective forgetting memory profiles of people to examine their thought control abilities and tendencies. She is also a researcher at the Islamic Psychology Lab at Cambridge Muslim College. Aside from academic research, she is passionate about empowering the Uyghur diaspora and spends her free time organizing and delivering events for Uyghur mental health.