Golia is a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research integrates multimodal brain data with cognitive and behavioral assessments to investigate the neural basis of cognition, emotion, and complex behavior in youth. After earning her BSc in physics in Tehran, she moved to Montreal for graduate training, completing an MSc in physics at Concordia University and a PhD in neuroscience at McGill University. During her PhD, Golia focused on understanding the relationship between regional neural dynamics and large-scale network organization in the human brain. Her postdoctoral research at Penn lies at the intersection of computational psychiatry, brain development, time-series analysis, and large-scale data science. Her goal is to lead an interdisciplinary research program that investigates mechanistic models of cognition and mental health, grounded in large-scale, multimodal, and openly shared data.