"Most broadly, my research aims to understand the impact of adversity on human potential and well-being. To this end, I focus on understanding both the risk and resilience mechanisms associated with posttraumatic psychopathology, as well as factors associated with well-being and adaptation.

Bereavement is a particular interest of mine because it is one of the most common traumatic exposures wherein the acute and severely disruptive experience of loss and grief is expected to remit over time as loss is integrated. Studying this recovery process at the population health level, as well as the factors that increase risk for a prolonged clinical course, can hopefully inform our broader understanding of adaptation and recovery in population mental health. To advance this line of work, I use both my experience in clinical psychology and training in epidemiology to describe the complex interplay between structural factors, neurocognition, and biological processes (i.e. genetic risk) that influence mental health outcomes after trauma exposure."