Adrienne Romer

Adrienne Romer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. She holds Core Faculty positions in Clinical Science and Affiliate roles in Cognitive Neuroscience & Biopsychology. As Director of the SPAN Lab, her research focuses on transdiagnostic and dimensional approaches to psychopathology, leveraging neuroimaging (MRI), behavioral testing, and clinical data to study mental disorder comorbidity in adolescents and adults. She completed her PhD at Duke University and postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital. Her work emphasizes identifying shared risk markers across diagnostic categories to inform interventions.

Education includes a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duke (2019), MA from Duke (2016), and BS in Human Development from Cornell (2011). She is actively involved in graduate training, accepting students in Clinical Science, and directs the SPAN Lab's translational research initiatives. Current projects explore cerebellar circuitry, executive dysfunction, and neural correlates of general psychopathology. She collaborates internationally and integrates multi-modal data to advance mental health research.

Research interests include transdiagnostic mechanisms, cognitive-affective processes, neuroimaging methods, and adolescent development. Recent studies focus on brain structure trajectories in youth, factor structure of psychopathology across cultures, and meta-analyses of executive function. Awards and grants are not explicitly listed here but are reflected in her active research portfolio.