She completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at McGill University and is the director of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation funded Psychophysiology of Sexual Health Laboratory at the University of Guelph. Dr. Kukkonen served as a committee member for the 4th International Consultation on Sexual Medicine, creating international guidelines and standards of practice for female sexual dysfunction, and has received early researcher awards from the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, the Society for Sex Therapy and Research as well as the Canadian Sex Research Forum. Dr. Kukkonen’s research focuses on using innovative technologies to study the interaction between physiological and psychological processes in sexual arousal with a particular interest in aging and sexual response.