Emma Roach Email & Phone Number

Bend, OR, US

Worked and learned alongside the fourth cohort of Climatebase's exclusive fellowship. Gained a fundamental understanding of the current state of the climate crisis and the industries/technologies most likely to generate positive, timely impact.Completed capstone project (NICE) with a small team of fellows, providing my expertise in research support.

Evangelized experimentation, human-centric KPI definition, and quantitative decision-making in suite of 5+ products ranging in maturity from early ideation to post launch. Founded and managed team of three full-time employees and one contractor.

Empowered Inbox, Gmail, and other GSuite app product teams to make human-centered decisions by defining metrics, collecting logs data, and summarizing evidence against product benchmarks. Instituted a “data democracy” for members of org to self-serve privacy-safe core insights.

Gathered requirements from CEO/CTO and created reporting structures used for critical board decisions. Synthesized multiple data streams into a queryable single source of truth with automated data ingestion (Python) and interactive visualization (Tableau)

Analyzed demographics and student interaction data to provide product insights and a reusable basis for future analytical efforts.

Corrected the syntax, grammar, and phrasing in scientific manuscripts written by non-native English speakers.Facilitated equity in publication by helping to minimize the language barrier for international scientists.

Silver Spring, MD

Investigated human neurocognitive data collected from an Android app called DANA (Defense Automated Neurobehavioral Assessment)Analyzed, visualized, and summarized DANA datasets to prepare qualitative and quantitative reports for various audiences (including both non-scientific partners and scientific journals).Spearheaded the design and maintenance of a.

Used in vivo neurophysiology, pharmacology, and optogenetics to study temporal learning in the rat primary visual cortex.Recorded neural activity from animals learning simple cue-reward relationships, uncovered evidence that the neurotransmitter acetylcholine acts as a “reinforcement signal” in reward-based plasticity of the visual cortex, published.

Explored the interaction of stress hormones and drugs of abuse at the cell and circuit level in the brain’s reward system.Performed quantitative image and data analysis.

Performed cell culture and calcium imaging to study interneuronal connectivity in the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: Leadership Initiative for the Environment

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: Tulane University Neuroscience Association