about me

I am a K99 Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive and Psychological Sciences and the Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University. I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa starting in August 2026. I am also affiliated with the Psychiatry Department and the Iowa Neuroscience Institute.

I serve as the Director of the Computational Affective Motivational Psychiatry Lab. Our group studies mechanisms of motivation, affect, and decision-making across the developmental lifespan, and we leverage neurocomputational frameworks and digital mental health to understand how neural and physiological processes are dysregulated in mental illness. How do neurotransmitter systems like serotonin and dopamine shape affective and motivational processes to guide (mal)adaptive decision-making? How do therapeutic interventions like pharmacological agents and transcranial neuromodulation improve mental health outcomes and promote healthy aging? These are some of the key questions that drive my interdisciplinary research program.

I will be recruiting students for Fall 2026. I can advise students through the Psychological and Brain Sciences graduate program (Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Science, or Individualized Tracks) and through the Neuroscience graduate program.

As a computational cognitive affective neuroscientist, I seek to bridge basic and clinical science research, through organizing interdisciplinary workshops on aging neuroscience and alignment in aging , developing a novel proceedings format for CCN, and serving as an advisory board member for the Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging. Broadly, I aspire to facilitate opportunities that promote inclusive excellence.