She received her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from the Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, under the supervision of Bryan Kolb and Jeffrey Kleim. She conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University in Joseph LeDoux’s lab. Dr. Monfils is currently pursuing 3 research streams: (1) investigating post-consolidation manipulations that can persistently modify memories, (2) isolating the mechanisms that underlie social transmission of fear, and (3) examining the interactions between early experience, and fear learning in adulthood.