Research Associate

Zoe joined IHMC as a Research Associate in May 2024 working with Dr. Toshi Miyatsu and his human performance team in the cognition and computational neuroscience unit. She has since worked on the teams of both Dr. Toshi Miyatsu and Dr. Jeffrey Phillips at IHMC. During her time at IHMC, she has worked on various projects, including technical savviness, novel mild traumatic brain injury detection, development of psychometric tools in a simulator environment, and human performance in various environments (e.g., fatigue, hypoxia, etc.).

She was previously an IHMC intern working with project teams exploring mild traumatic brain injury recovery and detection, diet and activity impact on BHB kinetics and blood-glucose, human and AI trust, and voice onset time for determining reaction time, and more. She was drawn to IHMC for its research in human cognition and performance and its interdisciplinary approach to research.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of West Florida and graduated with honors as part of the UWF Kugelman Honors program. Her undergraduate honors thesis explored the use of “shame-based” cognitive behavioral therapy for individuals with a history of domestic violence.

Recently, she has recently accepted an admission offer to the University of Southern Mississippi’s Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program, focusing on adults in Dr. Emily Junkin’s CHEERS laboratory. Her research interests include clinical rehabilitation and intervention practices in the context of interpersonal violence and the frequent  presentation of substance abuse disorders (e.g., alcohol). More specifically, she is interested in the role of shame and emotion regulation in batterers, and how best to leverage this in batterer treatment programs.

In her free time, she enjoys gardening and making homemade baked goods. She has taken up the hobby of painting portraits whenever she has the opportunity.