I’m a Clinical Psychology PhD student in the Social Developmental Neuroscience Lab at Temple University. I study how adolescent brain networks encode, update, and represent social information, with a focus on social anxiety. My work examines how youth learn from peer feedback, how social experiences shape neural representations over time, and how neural activity and structure contributes to individual differences in social learning across development.
My work integrates diffusion tensor imaging to examine how brain structure shapes social experiences and representational similarity analysis to test how youth with social anxiety uniquely learn about and represent their social environment, alongside behavioral paradigms involving social feedback, social exclusion, and social influence.
I also enjoy building research tools, improving analytic pipelines, and helping others think through study design and data analysis.
Outside the lab, I love dancing, discovering new music, playing basketball, and spending time with my dog Ziggy.()
Temple University
Clinical Psychology (PhD)
Florida Atlantic University (FAU)
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