CARRISA V. COCUZZA

BIO

In 2023, I completed my PhD at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University under the mentorship of Dr. Michael W. Cole. My doctoral dissertation, titled "Brain network mechanisms supporting local and distributed cognitive processes", focused on understanding the brain network bases of neurocognitive information processing. Following this, I joined the remarkable team at Yale University led by Dr. Avram Holmes to investigate network-level risk factors for psychotic and affective illnesses. We recently moved to a state-of-the-art and highly translational, clinical neuroscience facility at Rutgers University called the Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research. I'm affiliated with the Rutgers Psychiatry Department, Rutgers Brain Health Institute, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and the Rutgers-Princeton Conte Center for studying Latent Cause Inference.

Before my PhD, I received my master's in neuropsychology from NYU, where I worked in a human genomics lab in a bridge program with Mt. Sinai School of Medicine to study risk factors underlying the comorbid expression of neurodevelopmental clinical phenotypes.  

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Outside of the lab, I am passionate about open-access and equitable science, STEM outreach, and efforts to improve scientific communications.

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A reasonably up-to-date copy of my CV is available here. My publications can be found here.

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