Hello! I’m a neuroscientist who will be working with Arielle Keller at the University of Connecticut as a Postdoctoral Research Associate to understand how the multivariate effects of early life environments shape the experience-dependent neurodevelopment of brain circuits that support affective and cognitive control processes. I am particularly interested in characterizing neurobiological mechanisms of plasticity that may confer risk for neuropsychiatric disorders during critical periods of development but also inform person-specific and anatomically precise therapeutic targets for interventions administered in a developmentally sensitive manner. My work seeks to integrate theoretical and methodological approaches from human neuroimaging, developmental psychology, evolutionary neurobiology, statistics, and psychiatric and behavioral sciences.

I completed my graduate training from the University of Pittsburgh (CNUP & CNBC) working with Bea Luna and Cecile Ladouceur, where I studied the neurodevelopment of affective and cognitive control processes, typically and transdiagnostically.

Before Pitt, I worked as an MRI Research Coordinator with Ian Gotlib at Stanford University investigating the effects of early life stress on affective neurodevelopment. Prior to that, I completed my B.A. in Neuroscience and Philosophy from Bates College.

Feel free to reach out with questions at amo80 [at] pitt [dot] edu or amar [dot] ojha [at] uconn [dot] edu