Overview
Aliza is a second-year Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology at Duke University, where she works with Dr. Moria Smoski. She is broadly interested in examining the interplay between emotion regulation, neurocognitive processes, and reward processing in mid- to late-life depression.
She earned her B.S. in Cognitive Science, with a minor in Computer Science, from UCLA in 2020. Prior to starting her doctoral studies, she worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.