Celia Ford Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, United States

During this year-long fellowship, I will be working with members of the Future Perfect team to write stories at the intersection of emerging technology, brains, and culture.

Oakland, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

I worked as a full-time staff writer and wrote eight stories for WIRED Science as part of the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship program.

I wrote pieces for the Berkeley Science Review, a graduate student-run magazine and blog that aims to highlight the groundbreaking research occurring at UC Berkeley in a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

Berkeley, California

I ran behavioral experiments, recorded neural activity, and built computational models to study how we make learn and decisions. My research focused on how we learn to make sense of the world around us, and how our brains enable us to flexibly update our expectations when the world changes. I found that two brain regions in particular, the orbitofrontal.

I work with the TON editorial team to report and write about the craft of science journalism.

San Francisco, California, United States

Carry the One Radio is a student and post-doc run science podcast at UCSF with the mission to ignite scientific curiosity. We interview scientists, write scripts, and produce episodes. As communications director on the executive board, I help coordinate our release schedule, manage our social media platforms, and train new members.

Berkeley, California, United States

Worked with Drs. Stephan Lammel, Helen Bateup, and Robin Ball to teach advanced undergraduate neurobiology students how neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease manifests in the brain. Led journal-club-style discussion sections, empowering students to critically analyze scientific publications, while adapting the curriculum mid-semester to adjust.

Berkeley

Supported Dr. David Presti in executing lesson plans, grading, and providing individual attention to students in discussion-based recitation sections.Developed lectures for recitation sections designed to introduce students with diverse academic backgrounds to neuroscience, and to inspire students to draw connections between neuroscience, history, and.

Brown University Department Of Cognitive, Linguistic, And Psychological Sciences

Assisted life sciences students in developing computational thinking skills and Matlab proficiency (weekly office hours and one-on-one tutoring).Collaborated with instructors to create coding tutorials, computer lab activities, and homework assignments that introduced students to the computational challenges associated with the study of the mind, brain.

Brown University

Facilitated weekly small group review sessions and assists students in understanding introductory neuroscience topics such as electrophysiology, neurobiology, and neuroanatomy. Led occasional large-scale exam review sessions in order to prepare students for testing, and assists in grading exams.

Brown University

Lived with junior and senior students, helping them develop independent living skills, prepare for the post-graduation experience, and create professional networks. Served as a primary link to campus resources for students living on-campus.

Brown University Department Of Cognitive, Linguistic, And Psychological Science

Summer 2016 - Spring 2017: Received Samuel Nabrit Undergraduate Research and Teaching Award. Designed and conducted a human behavioral experiment to study task structure learning within dual-task environments. Presented findings as an honors thesis: "Task Switching, or Task Integration? Learning working memory gating policies in dual-task settings." Fall.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Represented "drive time" on-air personality of commercial alt-rock station. Interviewed professional musicians and collaborated with music programmers. Some credits include Wolf Alice, Bastille, Cage the Elephant, Foals, The Last Shadow Puppets, Young the Giant, and BØRNS.Emceed small and large-scale events throughout Rhode Island at venues including.

Assisted students in understanding computational models of pattern recognition, visual perception and attention, object recognition, learning and memory, and decision-making and reasoning. Contributed to the development and grading of homework and exam questions.

Brown University

Developed programming that supports topics including, but not limited to sexism, gender issues, contraception and safer sex, eating concerns, sexuality, relationships, assertiveness, sexual harassment and assault, and other matters impacting marginalized genders on Brown’s campus.Mentored and supported first-year students within their residential community.

University Of Chicago

Used behavioral methods to investigate impression formation and the relationship between facial dominance and social status perception. Funded as a scholar within the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program.

Davidson College

Attended to the safety, well-being, and enjoyment of units of academically motivated students (8th-9th grade) within their residential community.Coordinated and ran nightly programs for students, meeting “TIPStar” educational standards, in addition to running day-long weekend events..

Orlando, Florida

Taught weekly beginning/intermediate piano and violin lessons to students ages 4-50.Coached summer string camp for beginning students.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: BASIS (Bay Area Scientists in Schools) instructor, Neuroscience Mentorship Program coordinator, Neuroscience.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Cognitive Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: 95.5 WBRU, Office of Residential Life, Applied Music Program (classical piano), WiSE mentor (Women in Science.