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Pei received her PhD in Psychology at Lancaster University in 2021, where she explored children’s moral development in dynamic social interactions. Following her PhD, she worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and the Alan Turing Institute, investigating the social and ethical dimensions of AI in Air Traffic Control. She then became a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, examining the moral permissibility of AI deployment across industries. In 2024, she joined the University of Aberdeen as a Lecturer.

Her research focuses on social cognition, primarily how people navigate social dynamics and particularly within the realm of human-AI interactions and their social, moral, educational, and cognitive implications. Some of her current projects include Public and expert perceptions of AI in industries; Generative AI in learning and social cultural shifts; and Human-AI relationships and boundaries in workplace.