Angarika Balakrishnan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Psychology working in the Developmental Neuropsychobiology Lab. She completed her B.Sc. in Biotechnology and M.Sc. in Biological Sciences from Mumbai, India. Previously, Balakrishnan worked on understanding how psychedelics modulate anxiety-like behaviors in rodent models. During her PhD, Balakrishnan aims to study how early life stress impacts adult-onset mood-related disorders.