Berenice is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and joined the WUNDER Lab team this past January. Berenice’s research interests are at the intersection of infant neurodevelopment, emotion regulation, infant temperament, and caregiver mental health. Berenice is a 2020 D-SPAN Scholar, an NINDS grant that funded her predoctoral work and has now transition into a K00 to fund a 4-year continuation of her neuroscience research into the postdoctoral phase. During her doctoral training, she investigated infant developmental trajectories of EEG delta-beta coupling and functional-network connectivity – neural measures that have been associated with regulation in adults. As part of her new work with the WUNDER team, Berenice is investigating developmental trajectories of socioemotional competence in infants born very premature, while also examining the role of neural functional and structural organization as well as caregiver-child interactions. Berenice received a B.A. (2014) and a M.S. in Psychology (2016) from Western Kentucky University, and a PhD from The Pennsylvania State University. Berenice is passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia, and is dedicated to training and mentoring students from minoritized and disadvantaged backgrounds. In her spare time, Berenice enjoys traveling, music, water color, and dancing!