Maria Francesca Molloy
(She/Her)
Bio
Maria Francesca Molloy is a Hume Doctoral Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Maynooth University, an Adjunct Lecturer at IBAT College Dublin, and a Research Fellow at GCAS. Her research focuses on the role of emotion in language processing, combining experimental methods with computational modelling to investigate how affect shapes cognition. She holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and B.A.(Mod) from Trinity College Dublin.
Research Interests
Emotion and Language, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science, Embodied Cognition, Computational Affective Science, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind
Recent Presentations
Physiological Validation of Affective Arousal for Psycholinguistic Norms [Poster]. Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention (upcoming: May 2026). Barcelona, Spain.
Emotions are Hard. GRASP day event (April 2026). Maynooth University, Ireland.
Operationalising Emotion. Embodied Cognition Lab Meeting (November 2025). Maynooth University, Ireland.
Teaching
Current
Data Analytics, MSc in Strategy Enterprise and Innovation, co-delivered by IBAT and ATU
Past (non exhaustive)
Data Analytics, BA in Business, IBAT College Dublin
Business Intelligence, BA in Business, IBAT College Dublin
Introduction to Programming, BSc Computer Science, National College of Ireland
Data Structures and Algorithms, BSc Computer Science, National College of Ireland