Newkirk Faculty Fellow Golnaz Tabibnia

An affective neuroscientist, Golnaz Tabibnia is assistant research faculty in the Department of Psychological Science at UC Irvine. Her research focuses on the interplay of emotions and cognition (“passion and reason”) in the human brain – particularly emotion regulation, impulse control, social decision-making, and psychological resilience. Ultimately, her work centers around using insights from neuroscience to enhance behavioral tools for improving mental wellness. As a Newkirk Center for Science and Society fellow, she explores the idea that learning about the neuroscience of self-regulation can improve self-regulation. Before coming to UCI, she was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University (BA UC-Berkeley, PhD UCLA).