Dr. Dylan Gee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, where she directs the Clinical Affective Neuroscience and Development Laboratory (CANDLab). Dr. Gee received her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA, and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her lab’s research focuses on neurodevelopmental mechanisms of early adversity and risk for psychopathology in childhood and adolescence, with a translational focus to inform interventions and policy related to youth well-being. She currently leads NIH- and NSF-funded research on child and adolescent brain and behavioral development, and serves as a co-principal investigator at the Yale site of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Dr. Gee was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Scientist and her work has received broad recognition, including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology, the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association of Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association’s Early Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Children, Youth, and Families.
