Alex Rich

Alex is a graduate student in the Levy Decision Neuroscience Lab at Yale. She received her B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where she worked with Drs. Ann Haynos and Lisa Anderson to investigate decision-making and ruminative processes in eating disorders. This work, in tandem with her time in Dr. Ben Hayden's lab examining the neural basis of decision-making in rhesus monkeys, lent to her current interests in translational neuroscience research examining transdiagnostic properties of cognition and behavior. Now as a graduate student in Dr. Ifat Levy's lab, she conducts her thesis research on the neural underpinnings of food-based learning and decision-making in obesity with binge eating. Outside of the lab, Alex is passionate about advocating for community well-being and support at the program, university, and national levels. She has served in leadership roles on the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program Executive Committee, the Yale Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and the Graduate Research and Development (GRAD) Coalition which supports the work of the U.S. House of Representatives GRAD Caucus.