Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI). She is a member of the Basic Research Team of the Foundational Science Research Unit, where she works at the intersection of the academic and applied worlds focusing on long-term research needs of the U.S. Army. Stefanie is responsible both for conducting her own internal research in the areas of leader development and culture and supporting research efforts in external settings through ARI's Leader Development and Culture portfolios. She was previously employed as a Post-Doctoral Fellow overseeing federally funded research on emotions, attention processes, and work performance conducted within the Work Experience Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her B.A. from Northern Arizona University and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University.