Lucinda’s research is centered on understanding how the childhood environment shapes neurodevelopment and mental health. She is particularly interested in understanding the development of circuit-level neuroplasticity across childhood and adolescence, and how experiences can affect underlying neurobiological mechanisms of plasticity to yield individual differences in brain and behavior. Lucinda completed her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Yale University under the mentorship of Dr. Dylan Gee, where she examined how the developmental timing of adversity exposure can differentially impact brain structure, brain function, and risk for psychopathology. Lucinda’s graduate research was supported by the National Science Foundation, and her dissertation work received awards from the Society for Research in Child Development’s Student and Early Career Council, the Flux Society, and the Department of Psychology at Yale University. Prior to graduate school, she received her B.A. in Biology from Whitman College and worked as a post-baccalaureate research coordinator in Dr. Ian Gotlib’s lab at Stanford University.