Vanessa Brown

Advisor at Alena

Vanessa is a licensed clinical psychologist and cognitive computational neuroscientist. Her work focuses on using computational models of behavioral and neural processes to understand how these processes go awry in mental illness and how they can be treated. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Virginia Tech and completed her predoctoral clinical training and postdoctoral research training at Western Psychiatric Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh, where she is now an assistant professor.