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Samuel E. Cooper is an Assistant Professor at Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin. He is a clinical psychological scientist and cognitive neuroscientist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Samuel received his B.A. from Hunter College, City University of New York and earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He completed a predoctoral clinical internship at the VA Maryland Health Care System, specializing in trauma recovery. His postdoctoral training focused on cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging at Dell Med, where he employed computational approaches to decode multivariate functional MRI data related to emotional learning and memory tasks. His research aims to understand maladaptive threat learning and memory mechanisms, particularly in adults and adolescents experiencing trauma and anxiety. Current research interests include mapping neurobehavioral mechanisms of fear and their contribution to maladaptive behaviors, characterizing anxiety-related psychopathology, and exploring the interplay between prefrontal and subcortical interactions that predispose adolescents to pervasive fear and anxiety. Samuel is committed to advancing mentorship and improving quantitative methods across disciplines, enhancing the replicability of research findings in clinical and neural sciences.
Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Teaching and conducting research in clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Department: Department of Social Work. Note: GRE is not required for the PhD program.