Teaching & Mentoring
Training the next generation of scientists
What matters most to me as a teacher and mentor is making the process of scientific discovery feel joyful and accessible. Be it in a lecture hall or at the bench, I want students to feel empowered to think critically, and to reframe inevitable setbacks as positive steps forward.
35+
Trainees mentored
20+
Mentees into STEM
& medical careers
& medical careers
5
Courses taught
or designed
or designed
University of Cambridge
2020 — present
Lecturer — Advances in Research on Stress & Stress-related Disorders
Natural Sciences Tripos Part II Psychology. Designed course materials and delivered lectures to ~50 third-year and medical students; led supervisions and graded essays.
PhD qualification examiner & research supervisor
First-year PhD examiner (Clinical Neurosciences); summer research supervisor (Pembroke College); Trinity College BA/Postdoc mentor.
Co-mentor — 6 active trainees
1 PhD student, 2 MPhil students, and 3 research assistants across the Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences.
National Institute of Mental Health
2016 — 2020
Mentored 6 Postbac IRTA trainees
All six won the NIH-wide Postbac Poster Day Outstanding Poster Award. Four went on to medical school, one to an MD/PhD program, and one to a PhD program.
Mentored 4 undergraduate researchers
Two Colgate University students (both later joined the lab via the NIH Postbac IRTA program) and two NIH Summer Internship (SIP) students.
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2009 — 2015
Teaching Assistant — 5 courses
Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Neurobiology I, Biological Interactions, and Behavioral Neuroscience — designing discussion materials, delivering guest lectures, and grading for classes of up to 300 students.
Mentored 17 undergraduates & 4 graduate students
Mentees earned Hilldale and Undergraduate Research Scholar fellowships; alumni have entered PhD, MD, MPH and PA programs — one is now an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience.
Earned the Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award (UW–Madison, 2015) in recognition of mentoring and outreach.
