Dissertations and Job Placements, 2015-2019
2019
Dissertation: "The Eyes as a Window to Speech Comprehension: Effects of Cognitive Aging and Hearing Acuity on Processing Speed and Listening Effort"
Employment: Clinical Outcome Assessment Scientist, Critical Path Institute
Dissertation: "The Experienced Palate Is a Smart Palate: A Behavioral and Neural Investigation of the Impact of Incidental Taste Experience on Future Taste Learning in Female Long Evans Rats"
Workplace/Position: Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Furman University
Dissertation: "Assessing Moderators of Cortisol Stress Response Trajectories: A Piecewise Hierarchical Modeling Approach"
Workplace/Position: Clinical Data Scientist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
2018
Dissertation: "Childhood Adversity and Multisystem Stress Functioning: From the Intracellular Level to the Cognitive Level"
Workplace/Position: Project Manager, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Dissertation: "Investigating the Effects of Lying on Memory"
Workplace/Position: Senior Analyst, Applied Marketing Science
Dissertation: "The Effects of Repetition and Spatial Arrangement on the Extraction of Ensemble Statistics"
Workplace/Position: Research Analyst, Decision Resources Group
Dissertation: "Perceived Control and Cognition: A Multimethod Approach to Exploring Physical Activity as a Mechanism"
Workplace/Position:Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Previous: Associated Health Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Dissertation: "The Effects of Dietary Restriction on Physiological Stress Systems"
Workplace/Position: Project Manager II, Sanofi
2017
Dissertation: "Mindfulness in Relation to Stress, Intrusive Thinking, Sleep Quality and Memory"
Workplace/Position: Psychiatric Clinician, Psychiatric Emergency Department, Boston Medical Center
Dissertation: "Sexual Psychopathy: The Role of Attention and Reward Related Deficits"
Workplace/Position: User Research, X-Box
Dissertation: "Psychopathy and Sexual Aggression: Etiology, Variants and Management Implications"
Workplace/Position: Lecturer, Brandeis University
Dissertation: "Psychopathic and Sexually Sadistic Cognitions, Traits and Behaviors: Relations With Biomarkers and Stress Responses"
Workplace/Position: Assistant Director of Admission and Title IX Administrator, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University
Dissertation: "Short- and Long-term Change in Selective Optimization With Compensation Strategies and the Relationship to Well-Being and Stress in Adulthood"
Workplace/Position: Advanced Training Fellowship in Rehabilitation Policy Research, University of Washington
2016
Dissertation: "In Your Face: Examining Mechanisms of Accurately Perceiving Threat From Faces"
Workplace/Position: Senior Clinical Research Associate, Leica Biosystems
Dissertation: "Assessing Associations Between Self-conscious Emotion and Cortisol Stress Responses: Influences of Development and Culture"
Workplace/Position: Psychology Department and Graduate Program Coordinator, Brandeis University; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions
Dissertation: "Visual and Vestibular Contributions to the Perception and Control of Dynamic Spatial Orientation"
Workplace/Position: Co-founder, Gamayun Scientific
2015
Dissertation: "Determinants of Cortisol Signaling"
Workplace/Position: Research Scientist, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Dissertation: "Age and Sex Differences in Glucocorticoid Sensitivity of Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Production After Repeated Psychosocial Stress"
Employment: Research Development Support Specialist, Brown University