I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. As a member of the Complex Memory Lab and Dynamic Cognition Lab the goal of my research is to understand the behavioral and neural mechanisms that underlie event memory in the context of aging.

Outside of work I spends my time doing yoga, playing volleyball, cooking elaborate meals, and exploring new bars and restaurants in St. Louis!

Research Program

Hippocampal autocorrelation

The main focus of my work is developing a novel fMRI analytic technique that measures the neural timescales of individual voxels and using this method to study gradients of neural activity in the brain, particularly the hippocampus. I aim to link the neural gradients I observe with specific aspects of event cognition and event memory.

Effects of boundaries on event memory

In a related line of work, I employ a sophisticated behavioral design to examine how events are processed and remembered differently in older vs. younger adults when there is partial or missing information.