Education: 

2025:  Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University (ETSU)

2018 - 2025 Distinguished Postdoctoral Scholar, Florida International University (FIU)

2018:  Ph.D. in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University (FAU)

2013:  Masters in Experimental Psychology, Nova Southeastern University (NSU)

2011:  Bachelors in Science (Psychology), Nova Southeastern University (NSU)

Research/Teaching Interests: 

The main goal of the lab is studying the basic neurobiological mechanisms that underlie attention, problem-solving, and memory with an emphasis in understanding the influence of thalamic structures in synchronizing the activity of frontal brain regions and the hippocampus during cognition.

Awards and Fellowships:

2025:  NINDS R00 Postdoctoral Career Transition Award

2024:  BRAINS (Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience) Fellow

2023:  NINDS K99 Award

2021:  FIU CASE Postdoctoral Research Award

2020:  National Institute of Health (NIH) Diversity Supplement Recipient

2018:  FIU CASE Distinguished Postdoctoral Scholar Award

2014 - 2018:  Delores A. Auzenne Fellowship Award For Underrepresented Minorities

2016 - 2018:  FAU Brain Institute Travel Award

2017:  FASEB MARC 2017 Postdoctoral Preparation Workshop Travel Award

2017:  FAU Graduate Diversity Fellowship Award

2017:  FAU College of Science Graduate Scholarship

2017:  FAU Graduate Excellence Fellowship Award

2016 - 2018:  SfN Neuroscience Scholar Program (NSP) Associate