Welcome Autumn and Kate
The Department of Psychology and Human Development would like to welcome two new faculty members, Autumn Kujawa and Kate Humphreys.
Autumn Kujawa’s research focuses on identifying predictors of the development of psychopathology and improving early intervention efforts, especially in regards to emotional processing, life stress, and the development of depression and anxiety in childhood and adolescence. She is also interested in developing novel approaches for predicting response to early intervention and providing more specific targets for treatment. Her work integrates multiple methods, including behavioral, psychophysiological (e.g., startle reflex, event-related potentials), and neural measures (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging) in order to better understand emotional processing across levels of analysis. Autumn received her PhD in clinical psychology from Stony Brook University in 2015 before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She joins us from Penn State University where she is currently an Assistant Professor.
Kathryn (Kate) Humphreys joins us from Stanford University where she is currently a postdoctoral fellow. Kate received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2014, and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Tulane University School of Medicine with a focus on Infant Mental Health. Kate is broadly interested in the development of psychopathology. Her work has largely centered on early adversity, as stress in early life increases the risk for a number of difficulties across the lifespan. Kate’s postdoctoral research at Stanford focused on examining how early experiences manifest physiologically, as well as identifying potential avenues to enhance the caregiving environment for children at risk for psychopathology.