lydia zhang

I received my B.S. in Psychology and Economics from Emory University in 2022. During my senior year, I worked at the TReAD Lab to study the neural circuits of effort-based decision-making in patients with depression, using fMRI. I then started my PhD in the Psychology program at the University of Washington, Seattle.

My current research interests lie in understanding the constraints of system-wide neural control of behavior in Drosophila melanogaster.