She received her PhD in neuroscience from MIT in 2003 and joined the faculty of Boston College in 2006 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. In 2010, she was the recipient of the Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging from Division 20 of the American Psychological Association and of the F.J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Prize from the American Psychological Foundation. She is interested in understanding how emotion and memory interact in young adults and in identifying how those interactions change across the adult lifespan. Her research is currently supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Searle Scholars program. Author website .