Professional Bio

Maddie is a third-year graduate student working with Drs. Kristin Buss and Katie Burkhouse. She is pursuing the dual-title PhD in Developmental Psychology and Social and Behavioral Neuroscience, with a certificate in Clinical and Translational Science. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Cornell College in 2020 and her Master‘s degree in Clinical and Developmental Research from Vanderbilt University in 2022. She is broadly interested in advancing the early detection of risk and prevention of anxiety and depression. Specifically, she is interested in understanding alterations in emotion processing that confer risk for these problems during adolescence.