Hello! I’m a neuroscientist working with Dr. Arielle Keller at the University of Connecticut as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. I am broadly interested in understanding how early life experiences shape the neurodevelopment of brain circuits supporting self-regulation, or our ability to control our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. My research makes use of interdisciplinary methods, including multimodal neuroimaging approaches, cognitive and affective science frameworks, and computational modeling of transdiagnostic psychiatric phenomena.

The goal of my work is to (1) characterize the brain circuits supporting self-regulatory processes during critical periods of neurodevelopment, (2) identify reliable brain-based biomarkers related to transdiagnostic neuropsychiatric risk, and (3) advance precision psychiatric medicine by leveraging personalized neuroscience to inform anatomically precise and developmentally sensitive therapeutic targets.

I completed my graduate training from the University of Pittsburgh (CNUP & CNBC) working with Dr. Bea Luna and Dr. 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 Dr. 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 amar [dot] ojha [at] uconn [dot] edu