Ya-Yun Chen is a Ph.D. student in the Affective Neurodynamics and Development Lab at Virginia Tech under the supervision of Dr. Tae-Ho Lee. She received her M.S. in Brain Science at the National Yang-Ming University and her B.S. in Psychology at the National Chung Cheng University. Generally, she is interested in understanding the neural circuitry underlying negative behaviors/experiences and exploring how these behaviors/experiences can be modulated and controlled. In her leisure time, she enjoys using data for social good, promoting the field of neuroscience, and immersing herself in creating artworks. By the way, Ya-Yun is from Taiwan, a beautiful country with a wide variety of tasty street foods and drinks. She would be pleased to share all of them with you!
Research interests: Aggressive Behavior, Emotion Regulation, Developmental Neuroscience, and Violence Prevention.