Leili Mortazavi

Leili received her B.A. (honors) in Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 2019, where she was mentored by Dr. Catharine Winstanley for her senior honors thesis studying the role of dopaminergic signaling on risky choice in rats. She is currently a PhD student in the Psychology Graduate Program at Stanford and is co-advised by Dr. Brian Knutson. She is interested in conducting translational work and bridging the gap between human MRI and animal optogenetic techniques to better understand the mechanisms of risky decision making, specifically in the context of drug addiction.