Hello! I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. I am affiliated with the labs of Anna Jenkins and Joe Kable. I received my Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience from Duke University in 2022 under the mentorship of Greg Samanez-Larkin.

Research Areas

• Basic mechanisms of motivation and decision making
  • What are the neural mechanisms of subjective reward valuation?
  • How do individual differences in dopamine neurotransmission affect how people weigh benefits and costs?
  • How does social cognition interact with reward valuation in social decisions?
  • What role does dopamine play in social decision making and learning?
• Translation to everyday life
  • Does neural function shape spontaneous decisions outside the lab?
  • How do experiences with discrimination and power dynamics in the workplace shape social decisions?
  • What are the mechanisms and consequences of personal and systemic bias in law and criminal justice?
  • How and when do narratives shape economic and legal decisions?

Tools/Techniques

• Neuroimaging (fMRI, PET)
• Human pharmacology
• Computational modeling
• Ecological momentary assessment
• Natural language processing
• Public data/tweet scraping
• Computer vision tools