I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Decision Making Lab at the Hebrew University Business School and the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine under the co-supervision of Shoham Chosen-Hillel and Alex Gileles-Hillel. My postdoctoral research will focus on the impact of war on civilian sleep schedules and how disrupted sleep impacts empathy.

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I received my Ph.D. and my M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and my B.A. in psychology and visual arts from Emory University.

My research focuses on bettering our understanding of how psychopathological symptoms fluctuate and the potential mechanisms that may underlie these fluctuations. Specifically, my research has focused on how chronotype (whether you are an early bird, a night owl, or somewhere in between), sleep, and inhibition predict symptom fluctuations in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder. I explore the hypothesis that symptoms are less severe during optimal times of day based on chronotype (e.g., morning for morning types) and that the mechanism behind this is improved alertness which leads to better inhibitory control.