Lila received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Barnard College and her Masters and Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Yale University. She conduced her post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology in the Brain and Cognitive sciences department. She started her research group at the New York University in 2004 where she was Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and served as the Director of the Center for Learning, Memory and Emotion at New York University. She moved her research group to Columbia University in 2017 where she continues to conduct behavioral and neuroimaging investigations into how humans encode and consolidate their experiences in memory and how these memories are organized into knowledge.
Lila is a recipient of the prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in 2009, Columbia University’s Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award, and she is an elected member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP) and the Association for Psychological Sciences (APS).
Lila’s teaching is focused on raising the new generation of scientists as she is Co-Director of the Psychology Departments STAR Research Program and her other courses include seminars in cognitive neuroscience and memory.
