Clare Shaffer entered the psychology department in 2020 after receiving her bachelor’s degree from Elon University in psychology and biology. As an undergraduate, Shaffer’s research was focused onmetabolism, non-invasive brain stimulation methods, and their applications in the context of affect regulation in young adults.
During her post-baccalaureate training, Shaffer worked on a large grant project that used novel simultaneous psychophysiological and neuroimaging techniques to study affect regulation strategies in Alzheimer’s Disease. As a graduate stduent, she is broadly interested in the metabolic correlates of various mental illnesses and hope to spend my graduate research working on identifying system-wide metabolic phenotypes of psychiatric disorders and their implications for affect and behavior.