Teaching & Mentoring
Training the next generation of scientists
Mentorship is central to how I work. Across three institutions I have guided more than thirty-five trainees — from undergraduates to PhD students — into research, medicine, and faculty careers, and designed and delivered upper-level coursework in stress neuroscience.
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) and the SfN Trainee Professional Development Award (2018) in recognition of mentoring and outreach.