Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, Ph.D. (Director)

Office: Health Sciences Center T10, Room 037

Phone Number: 631-444-9993

E-mail: lmujicaparodi at gmail.com

Areas of Interest: Complex systems analyses, limbic regulation, schizophrenia, and stress-vulnerability

Lilianne Mujica-Parodi is Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Emotion and Cognition, and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgetown University and Columbia University, respectively, studying mathematical logic and physics. After her Ph.D. (Niles G. Whiting Fellow in the Dept. of Philosophy, under the direction of Dr. Richard Friedberg, Dept. of Physics), she completed a three-year NIH Training Fellowship in Schizophrenia Research at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, supervised by Dr. Dolores Malaspina (Laboratory of Clinical Neurobiology), Dr. Donald Klein (Therapeutics), and Dr. Robert M. Bilder (Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research). Dr. Mujica-Parodi was subsequently promoted to Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at Columbia‘s College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she performed research for two years until being recruited by Stony Brook University. She is the recipient of the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorder‘s Young Investigator Award (Essel Investigator). Dr. Mujica-Parodi‘s research interests focus on the development of complex systems analyses to quantitatively define the roles that neural limbic regulation play both in the development of schizophrenia as well as individual variability with respect to stress-vulnerability and resilience in healthy adults.