Spencer Lynn Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Boston, MA

• I use computational models of signal detection and behavioral economics to investigate affect/emotion, perception, & decision-making, and the breakdown of those processes in mental illness.
• Responsible for hiring and leading a team of 15 research assistants in data collection and analysis for multi-year federally-funded projects investigating learning, decision making, personality, and emotion.
• Mentor other professors, post-doctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students on experimental design, statistical analysis, computer programming, and technical writing
• Mathematically model decision making, cost/benefit analysis, and risk assessment (based on novel applications of signal detection theory to learning and behavior).
• Deployed mobile/wearable data acquisition for physiological applications within the domain of affective science and decision making.
• Received funding from the U.S. Army for research on leadership development, and from NIMH for research on socio-emotional deficits of social anxiety.

Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory (Drs. Lisa Feldman Barrett & Karen Quigley)Conducted behavioral experiments in perceptual decision-making with human subjects, using mathematical modeling and peripheral physiology.

Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory (Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett)Conducted behavioral experiments in perceptual decision-making with human subjects, using mathematical modeling and peripheral physiology.

Belmont, MA

• Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory, McLean Hospital (Drs. Bruce Cohen & Ned Buttner)Division of Neurochemistry, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard University (Dr. Gregory Miller)
• Worked collaboratively on basic research aimed developing novel antipsychotic drugs. - Directed research on mice to investigate the role of trace-amine associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) knockout mice on.

Belmont, MA

• Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (Dr. Dean Salisbury)
• Conducted electroencephalography (EEG) research to investigate affective and cognitive processing in schizophrenia and affective psychoses.
• Administered clinical interviews and symptom rating scales to assess psychopathology, and conducted neuropsychological testing.

Waltham, MA

• Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media (Waltham, MA)
• Investigated the effects of exposure to violent media on adolescents and young adults. - Coded video games and other visual media for violent content - Collected neuro- and psychophysiological data during video game.

Cambridge, MA

• An academic year during graduate school focused on computer science and electrical engineering.
• Mathematical modeling of agent-based learning & decision making (Matlab, Java)
• Designed, constructed, and deployed GPS-enabled digital-radio transmitters for wild parrots
• UX, user interface design (Matlab)

Phd, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Ms, Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences

Ba, Biology