Welcome! I’m a postdoctoral research fellow and clinical psychology PhD in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I’m currently on the job market for Assistant Professor positions.
My work examines the neurobiological underpinnings of internalizing psychopathology (like depression and anxiety disorders) in individuals assigned female at birth (AFAB) across multiple reproductive phases, including puberty and adolescence, the menstrual cycle, and the perinatal period. I take a multimodal approach that includes electroencephalography (EEG), event-related potentials (ERPs), ecological momentary assessment, biological sampling, behavioral measures, and self-report.
My goal is to use ERPs as tools to pinpoint neural mechanisms that give rise to hormonal sensitivity and exacerbations in psychiatric symptoms during periods of hormone flux. I’m also interested in whether ERPs might serve as biomarkers of risk for reproductive mood and anxiety disorders. In the long term, I aim to develop systems for risk identification and tailored interventions for AFAB individuals across the reproductive lifespan.
This site provides brief descriptions of my research projects, publications, conference presentations, and grants. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me with inquiries and opportunities!
Read my CV here!
Contact me here: emull@uic.edu
About Me
Training
Most recently, I completed my predoctoral clinical psychology residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I graduated with my PhD in August 2023.
I completed my doctoral training in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program at Florida State University’s Department of Psychology in the lab of Dr. Greg Hajcak. My master's thesis examined the effects of stress exposure, reward sensitivity, and their interaction on risk for perinatal depression. My dissertation investigated the effects of ovarian hormones and menstrual cycle phases on reward sensitivity and depressive symptoms.
Prior to graduate school, I earned my Bachelor of Science at Florida State University with a major in Psychology. During my undergraduate training, I worked in the lab of Dr. Edward Bernat and completed my honor thesis examining coordinated responses of the reward and orienting processes to gambling feedback with EEG methods and time-frequency principal component analysis (PCA).
I also completed a post-baccalaureate position with Dr. Tracy Riggins at the University of Maryland, College Park as a lab manager and study coordinator for an R01-funded investigation of episodic memory development in childhood utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and EEG.