Hello! I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Emotion & Self Control Lab at the University of Michigan and the Clinical Psychophysiology Lab at Michigan State University. I completed my PhD in Psychology in the Environmental Neuroscience Lab at the University of Chicago. My research bridges social, clinical, cognitive, neuroscience and environmental approaches to psychology, to understand how physical environments and self-regulation intertwine to improve wellbeing and bolster social connection.

Reseach Questions

• How do our everyday surroundings and social contexts affect emotion regulation and wellbeing?
• How do natural environments influence affective processing for individuals and dyads?
• Can we target self-referential processing to reduce rumination in people with depression or anxiety?

Broader Impacts

In an effort to help city-dwellers experience natural stimuli on their daily lives, I co-developed a web-app called ReTUNE which generates ‘restorative’ walking routes which account for greenspace, noise levels and crime. The app currently works in pilot form for Chicago and is in the process of being expanded.

Open Science

Check out my Open Science Framework page for shared stimuli, datasets, and analysis code!