nparikh at unc.edu
As an affective neuroscientist and Teaching Associate Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, I spend my days teaching upper level courses in Psychology & Neuroscience and working on questions of how we choose to regulate our emotions, in and out of the classroom.
I teach my courses with a cognitive neuroscience lens. However, I enjoy teaching classes with broad appeal in psychology. In the past two years, I have taught courses on the Psychology of Music, Programming for Psychologists, Statistics for Psychological Research, and Research Methods in Psychology at UNC. I have also taught Learning and Memory, The Psychology of Imagination, and Pandemics and Mental Health at other institutions.
I received my PhD from Duke University in Psychology and Neuroscience with a focus in Cognitive Neuroscience. In collaboration with Dr. Kevin LaBar and Dr. Felipe De Brigard, my research and dissertation focused on using imagination to alter our negative responses to memories. After completion of my degree, I completed a teaching-focused postdoc at Harvard University under the guidance of Dr. Leah Somerville.
I received my B.S. at Harvey Mudd College in Mathematical and Computational Biology. Throughout my undergraduate education, I worked with Dr. Catherine L. Reed at Claremont McKenna College on the interplay of attention and body positioning.