Membership

ALBA provides a fantastic networking opportunity for career development in an international context, especially for individuals from underrepresented groups like myself.

To make a positive impact on the field

I am joining the ALBA Network to advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in neuroscience, counter bias and discrimination, recognize underrepresented scientists' contributions, and access professional development opportunities tailored to empower neuroscientists from diverse backgrounds. I am a member of the DEI committee for the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and want to enhance the engagement we have with this committee and in the society.

I’m joining ALBA to contribute to a more inclusive scientific community in neuroscience. Diversity enhances creativity, fosters innovation, and leads to more comprehensive research outcomes. Contribute to research that advances our understanding of neural processes and brain function.

I have always been committed to advancing empathy, equity, and inclusion across all aspects of identities. As a first-generation college student and a recently naturalized immigrant, I am acutely aware of the uneven playing field many students, faculty, and staff face. I have also significantly benefited from collaborations with students, peers, and mentors of diverse backgrounds and identities.

Excited to be part of the community and contribute new research perspectives.

Over the past decade, I dedicated my professional career to developing tools that could demolish barriers between psychiatry, cognitive science, computer science, mathematics, and neuroscience, between the U.S.A. and Palestine, while integrating my scientific and medical training. My research spans treatment, symptoms, cognition, and neural layers to reimagine psychiatry and neurology while accounting for the variability across the different components, with no individual left behind. Taken from a community perspective, this research philosophy is the technical definition of diversity, equity, and inclusion, i.e., the core mission of ALBA. I avidly look forward to contributing to the ALBA mission and network.

To help promote diversity in neuroscience research and foster collaboration between work in animal models and human studies.

As a neuroscientist, I am joining Alba to contribute to increasing DEIB in neuroscience research. My lab is committed to increasing DEIB in everything that we do, including research and interactions with community participants. I am also interested in mentoring junior colleagues and contributing to working groups in Alba.

To identify and promote best practices to counter bias and discrimination in the neuroscience community.

I am an advocate for improving diversity and addressing racial inequity, and am also passionate about raising LGBTQ+ voices both within science and within ethnic minority groups. I co-founded the Minorities in STEM network in the UK, and sit on the board of the Alliance for Visible Diversity in Science at Oregon Health & Science University. I would like to continue to expand on my advocacy work by working with ALBA.

I am committed to diversity, equity and inclusion