Meet Nadia
Nadia Saraí Corral-Frías Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Sonora. She completed her undergraduate degree with honors in psychology at Instituto de Estudios Superiores del Occidente. She went on to the University of Arizona and earned a degree in Neuroscience. Through a NIH T-32 she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in Saint Louis studying the neurogenetics of stress-related psychiatric disorders. Her cross-species publications focus on the biopsychosocial risk and protective factors of stress-related. She is a great proponent of increasing diversity in psychological and neuroscience research and another line of her research focuses on improving diversity, inclusion, and justice in big-team and open science. To further these efforts, she is also an Assistant Director in the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA; https://psysciacc.org), Founding member of Advancing Big-team Reproducible science through Increased Representation (ABRIR; http://abrirpsy.org), co-chair of the MDD workgroup of the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC; https://www.latinamericangenomicsconsortium.org/depression-disorder-group) and a faculty advisor of the first Mexican PsiChi Chapter. She prides herself in her outreach activities to increase knowledge in the community about the mind about the brain and its function.
