Lauren Bylsma, PhD, Named a Society for Psychophysiological Research Fellow
We are pleased to announce that Lauren Bylsma, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Psychology), has been named a Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Fellow. This honor recognizes the substantial and sustained contributions that Dr. Bylsma has made to the field of psychophysiology and to the SPR.
Dr. Bylsma is a highly accomplished clinical psychologist and expert in child and adolescent psychiatry and cognitive behavioral therapy. Her research contributions to the field of psychophysiology include research examining transdiagnostic emotional processes in affective disorders across the lifespan. She uses a multi-method approach in her work, incorporating autonomic physiology, neural responses to emotion and reward, behavior, and subjective experience both in the laboratory and daily life. Most recently Dr. Bylsma has used cutting-edge technology to collect ambulatory psychophysiological data in daily life, including her groundbreaking use of physiologically triggered ecological momentary assessment prompts to better characterize emotional processes and relation to psychopathology risk in the context of daily life.
Her contributions to SPR include serving as a consulting editor for Psychophysiology, SPR’s flagship journal, and as a member of the Early Career Award Committee and the Women and Gender Minorities in Science Education (WISE) Committee. The WISE Committee supports women and gender minorities in psychophysiological research and enhances recruitment and retention of women in the Society. In 2023, Dr. Bylsma was elected Chair of the WISE Committee for a 3-year term. In her role as Chair over the past year, she has overseen the organization of a WISE luncheon for the 2023 annual meeting with a joint address and panel discussion on the topic of building an inclusive and diverse psychophysiological lab, as well as a social media campaign to increase the visibility and representation of women and gender minorities in psychophysiological research.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Bylsma!