Research Experience

Neuroscience, Lead Investigator of the Warfighter Head Injury Study, Cognitive Neuroscience Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA (2008-present)

- Multidisciplinary Research Evaluation following Traumatic Brain Injury: Recovery of cognitive functions; Role of the prefrontal cortex in executive and social functions; Cognitive neuroplasticity; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Caregiver stress; and Genetic-plasticity relationships

Neuroeconomics, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neuroeconomics, Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA (2008-present)

- Functional Imaging: Neural correlates of assessing relative blameworthiness; Behavioral and neural correlates of the altruism meme

Social Neuroscience, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dr. Jordan Grafman’s Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA (2003-present)

- Functional Imaging: Processing of daily life activities in the human prefrontal cortex
- Functional Hyperscanning: Conditional and unconditional trust in two-person reciprocal exchange
- Functional Imaging & Skin Conductance: Imagined physical aggression in male adolescents
- Lesion Method: Effects of prefrontal cortex lesions in Vietnam war veterans on social knowledge
- Neuropsychology: Daily life activities and action processing in patients with frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal syndrome

- Functional Imaging: Management styles and economic decision making; Neural substrates of self- and other-regarding behavior; Behavioral and neural correlates of the altruism meme; Neural correlates of assessing relative blameworthiness

Cognitive Neuroscience, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dr. Claus Zimmer’s laboratory at the Department of Radiology, Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany (2001-2002)

- MRI Physics: Evaluation of Blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) and Arterial spin labeling (ASL) fMRI
- Functional Imaging: Neural mechanisms of spatial attentional selection in location-based negative priming; Use of pupil dilation assessment to inform interpretation of arithmetic complexity in multiplication tables
- Neuropsychology: Deficits in strategic temporal order processing in patients with schizophrenia

Cognitive Psychology, Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Dr. Elke van der Meer’s laboratory at the Department of Cognitive Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (1997-2000)

- Pupillography: Coding of temporal relations in semantic memory; influence of temporal order information in event knowledge on language comprehension