Zoe Kross is a PhD student in the Learning and Brain Development Lab (LBDL). She graduated from Macalester College in 2022 with B.A.s in Neuroscience and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. From 2022-2025, she worked as a lab manager in the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab (IASL), where she worked on various projects related to affective experience and interoception. Her research interests involve examining how endogenous and exogenous sex hormones and puberty influence the adolescent brain, behavior, and cognition.