Victoria Connaughton Associate Professor
Dr. Connaughton’s research interests encompass the disciplines of developmental biology (nervous system development) and neurobiology. Specifically, she is interested in examining the relation between…
Behavior, Cognition, and Neuroscience Faculty
Stefano Costanzi Associate Professor CAS - Chemistry
Dr. Costanzi's teaching interests mainly focus on the countering of chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction (WMD). His research interests revolve around the computational study of the interac…
Terry Davidson Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Professor CAS - Psychology
Dr. Davidson earned his undergraduate degree in Psychology at Michigan State University and earned his Ph.D. with a specialization in Learning and Memory at Purdue University before completing his pos…
Kathleen Holton Assistant Professor CAS - Health Studies
Dr. Kathleen Holton is a nutritional neuroscientist. Her research examines the negative effects of dietary excitotoxins on neurological symptoms, as well as the positive protective effects of certai…
Laura Juliano Professor CAS - Psychology
Laura M. Juliano earned her PhD. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her…
David Kearns Associate Professor CAS - Psychology
Research interests: Learning, behavior, addiction. Recent publications: Kim, J. S., Gunawan, T., Tripoli, C. S., Silberberg, A., Kearns, D. N. (2018). The effect of economy type on demand and prefer…
Mark Laubach Professor CAS - Biology
I am a neurobiologist interested in goal-directed behavior. My laboratory is focused on the roles of the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia in executive control and decision making. Core methods incl…
Zehra Peynircioglu Professor CAS - Psychology
Zehra Peynirciolu received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford. She started graduate studies in cognitive psychology, specializing in memory, at Princeton (and received an MA) and fol…
Anthony Riley Professor CAS - Psychology
Dr. Riley received his undergraduate training at the University of North Carolina and obtained his PhD from the University of Washington. He did a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmacology at Dalhousie…
Colin Saldanha Professor CAS - Biology
Hormones are profound modulators of brain structure and function; with influences that span the lifetime of an organism. The muti-faceted and pluripotent neural effects of steroids require that a spec…
Alan Silberberg Professor CAS - Psychology
My research interests are animal learning, behavioral economics, primatology and smoking. Publications can be seen in Google Scholar as linked from my profile.
Catherine Stoodley Associate Professor CAS - Psychology
Catherine Stoodley is interested in the neuroscience of cognitive development, particularly the role of the human cerebellum in cognition, cognitive development and in neurodevelopmental disorders. Sh…
Bei Xiao Assistant Professor CAS - Computer Science
Dr. Bei Xiao's research focuses on how the human visual system estimate physical properties of objects in our surroundings. Another focus of her research is to apply results from human vision to devel…
Alexander Zestos Assistant Professor CAS - Chemistry
Dr. Zestos completed his B.S./M.S. in chemistry from the College of William and Mary, a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Virginia, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Mi…
BCAN Associate Faculty
Anthony Ahrens Professor CAS - Psychology
Anthony Ahrens did his undergraduate work at Northwestern University and received his doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. His research interests fall at the interface of social and clini…
Fernando Benadon Professor CAS - Performing Arts
Fernando Benadon oversees the music theory & composition program in the Department of Performing Arts. More here: www.fernandobenadon.com
John Bracht Assistant Professor CAS - Biology
Bracht Lab Research Interests: For an organism to survive, the genome, the complete set of DNA in a cell, must be stably maintained and correctly regulated. Given the central importance of the genome,…
William Brent Associate Professor CAS - Performing Arts
Stephen Casey Professor and Department Chair, Mathematics and Statistics CAS - Math and Statistics
Stephen Casey is a founding member of the Editorial Board for Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing (STSIP) and an Associate Editor of The Journal of Signal and Image Processing. He was chair…
Katie DeCicco-Skinner Associate Professor and Department Chair, Biology CAS - Biology
Maria Gomez Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS - Psychology
Dr. Gomez-Serrano was born and raised in Madrid where she obtained her Veterinarian degree specializing in animal husbandry and genetics. Right after obtaining her degree, Dr. Gomez-Serrano moved to W…
Kathleen Gunthert Associate Professor CAS - Psychology
Dr. Gunthert’s program of research focuses on the influence of everyday stress and coping on depression, anxiety, and psychotherapy outcomes. Specifically, she has used intensive daily monitoring tech…
David Haaga Professor and Department Chair, Psychology CAS - Psychology
Dave Haaga is a Professor of Psychology and has been a faculty member at American University since 1989. Dr. Haaga received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Southern California an…
Nathaniel Herr Associate Professor CAS - Psychology
Nathaniel Herr is an Associate Professor of Psychology who joined the department in 2012. Dr. Herr received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and received p…
Nathalie Japkowicz Professor and Department Chair, Computer Science CAS - Computer Science
Nathalie Japkowicz is a Professor of Computer Science at American University. She was previously with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa where she le…
Monika Konaklieva Associate Professor CAS - Chemistry
Dr. Konaklieva’s research is in the area of exploring different approaches for delaying of microbial resistance. Current projects include computer-aided design and synthesis of novel beta-lactams as w…
Cristel Russell Associate Professor KSB - Marketing
Cristel's research focuses on the social, psychological and cultural factors that influence the consumption of alcohol and other substances, especially amongst vulnerable populations (e.g., youth, mil…