Experience

Education

PhD, Biological Psychology, University of Tennessee
- Dissertation: The Neurochemistry and Neural Circuitry of Stress Resilience….View Online
BA, Psychology, Kent State University

2013-2018
- Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Matthew Cooper
- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee
- Emphasis: Dominance hierarchies, stress resilience, neural circuitry
2018-2021
- Postdoctoral Researcher to Dr. Fred Helmstetter
- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Emphasis: Neurobiology of learning and memory, synaptic plasticity, age-related cognitive decline
2012-2013
- Research Assistant to Drs. Aaron Jasnow and David Riccio
- Department of Psychology, Kent State University
- Emphasis: Emotional learning and memory
2010-2011
- Study Manager to Dr. David Fresco
- Department of Psychology, Kent State University
- Emphasis: Emotion regulation, facial electromyography
2010-2011
- Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Jeffrey Ciesla
- Department of Psychology, Kent State University
- Emphasis: Stress, coping, co-rumination

2017-2018
- Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience, Primary Instructor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
2014-2016
- Introduction to Research Methods, Primary Instructor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville