Congratulations to Dr. Anaya & Dr. Vallorani on earning your Ph.D.s!

Congratulations to Dr. Anaya!

Dr. Berenice Anaya will be joining Washington University in St. Louis as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in January 2023. She will be working with Drs. Cynthia Rogers and Christopher Smyser in the WUNDER Lab, using functional and structural MRI to investigate neural mechanisms underlying developmental trajectories of internalizing symptoms from infancy to age 10 in children born very premature. Her research will also continue to incorporate the role that  individual differences and dyadic caregiver-child interactions play in shaping those trajectories and predicting psychiatric risk. Berenice's work will be supported by a 5-year K00 D-SPAN award from the National Institute of Mental Health and by the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine.

Congratulations to Dr. Vallorani!

Dr. Alicia Vallorani graduated from the Developmental Psychology Program at Penn State University in December. Her dissertation work was funded by an NIMH F31 grant and used naturalistic methods, including mobile eye-tracking and a novel neuroimaging paradigm, to investigate naturalistic social interactions during adolescence and emerging adulthood.Dr. Vallorani will begin a postdoctoral fellowship, funded by an NIMH F32 grant, in Dr. Elizabeth Redcay's lab at the University of Maryland in February 2023. She will continue using naturalistic methods and investigate how pubertal development shapes social interactions with peers. You can learn more about Dr. Vallorani's work on her website.