Bio

• In my first year as a PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke.
• I trained clinically as a Doctor of Physical Therapy at MGH Institute. While there, I was a research assistant/fellow working with Dr. Teresa J. Kimberley on various TMS and fMRI projects on focal dystonia and E-field modeling.
• Previously, I worked as a research specialist at Penn Medicine studying aphasia recovery and TMS in stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. My supervisors were Drs. H. Branch Coslett and Roy H. Hamilton.
• Before that, I graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Cognitive Science from Haverford College. This is also where my science journey started.
  • My undergraduate thesis explored the neural correlates of beauty in literary stories (link). I was advised by Drs. Franziska Hartung and Anjan Chatterjee at Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics.
  • My summer research investigated how beauty in peacock feathers may be a form of camouflage (link). I was advised by Dr. Suzanne Amador Kane in Haverford Biophysics Lab.

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