Rebecca Todd is an Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Psychology. She has a Master’s degree in Dance from UCLA and worked as a contemporary choreographer and dance writer for a number of years. She subsequently received a PhD in Developmental Science and Neuroscience from University of Toronto, and post-doctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at the Rotman Research Institute and University of Toronto. Her research program focuses on brain and behavioural processes underlying the interaction between human emotion and cognition, in health and in mood disorders, as studied in the lab and in the world.