Membership

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 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.

I am joining Alba because it offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect with a diverse, global network of researchers. Being part of this community will allow me to share my own insights and learn from the wide-ranging expertise of others in my field.

I am a long time supporter of diversity in science.

I'm interested in helping to make the field of neuroscience more inclusive and accessible.

As a woman neurologist/researcher in a leadership role I would like to promote advancement of those underrepresented in clinical neuroscience.

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.

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As a neuroscientist who fits multiple definitions as an under-represented group in brain research, I support Alba's mission. Having scientists who are neurodiverse is especially important as we have a personal motivation for our research and an insight that can only come from experience.

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

To support the efforts to increase inclusion and diversity in neuroscience

I strive to advance equity in neuroscience by bridging biological and sociocultural frameworks in psychiatry. As a Japanese-speaking clinician-scientist, I value ALBA’s mission to promote inclusion and mentorship across borders, identities, and disciplines—and hope to contribute to a more diverse, globally connected neuroscience community.

to join a network of diverse brain scientists and increase visibility for trainees and collaborators :)

To help enhance the visibility of diverse scientists in neuroscience. Such visibility will impact the development of the field and thus open up the doors wider for young investigators from diverse groups to enter this discipline and to become more successful.

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.