I am a Wu Tsai Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale, working with Elizabeth Goldfarb (Psychiatry) and Wendy Berry Mendes (Psychology). I got my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College with Emily Finn, using neuroimaging and behavioral methods to study how we integrate incoming information with existing knowledge. I focused on why two people—or the same person at different times—can perceive identical information differently, and how these differences shape reinterpretation and memory. That work was supported by an NIMH F31 NRSA Fellowship and an NSF GRFP. In my postdoc, I am extending this work to brain–body–behavior interactions. I examine how endocrine and physiological processes shape these behaviors, with a particular focus on stress.

Before graduate school, I received my Bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, where I worked in a couple of labs and did my thesis with Daniel Casasanto. Following graduation, I worked at Stanford in Josef Parvizi’s lab.