Bio
Nicole (she/her) received her BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2016 and a MS in Health Psychology in 2018. As a masters student, she worked in the Psychiatric Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory with Israel Liberzon, MD and in the Sleep and Chronophysiology Laboratory with J. Todd Arnedt, PhD in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. Nicole joined the Stanford Memory Lab in the Departments of Psychology and Neurology at Stanford University led by Anthony Wagner, PhD and the Mormino Lab led by Elizabeth Mormino, PhD in June 2018 to explore the memory mechanisms behind neurodegenerative disease. Nicole joined the Day Lab led by John W. Day, MD, PhD in the Department of Neurology at Stanford University in 2022 as a data and imaging research scientist to continue exploring neurological disease with the hopes of obtaining a PhD in the future.
Alongside being a neuroscience researcher, Nicole combines her love and passion for science and writing by assisting the Division of Hospital Medicine's faculty in developing innovative research programs and submitting competitive funding awards. Nicole is available to faculty for 1:1 grantsmanship advice and identifying funding opportunities alongside serving as their main resource for pre- and post-award support. She has helped secure over two-hundred thousand dollars in research funding since joining the Division in March of 2024.