Kaitlyn is currently the lab manager for the Columbia Social Neuroscience Lab under Dr. Meghan Meyer. Her current topics of research broadly cover loneliness, social connection, and social network representation—both behaviorally and neurally. She’s interested in how we learn about and connect to others, both in-person and online.

Prior to working at Columbia, she received her B.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University, where she worked with at the Shenhav Lab studying cognitive control, effort, and motivation with Dr. Amitai Shenhav.