Overview
I am a fourth-year Psychology & Neuroscience PhD Candidate enrolled through the Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program (CNAP). I pursue interdisciplinary research avenues at the intersection of creativity and emotion. In one line of research, I examine the cognitive consequences of engaging with art, including the emotional benefits and aesthetic judgments that arise from viewing and producing art. Secondly, I am also interested in the role of creative thinking in emotion regulation: how does outside-the-box thinking benefit us when facing adverse events? I am primarily housed in Dr. Kevin LaBar's affective neuroscience laboratory, though also work under creativity psychologist Dr. Paul Seli and have rotated with Dr. John Pearson to investigate computational neuroscientific pipelines.