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Dr. Catherine Fassbender is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Dublin City University (DCU), affiliated with the Faculty of Science and Health and the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Trinity College Dublin (2005) and has held academic roles at UC Davis MIND Institute (2012–2019), where she was promoted to Associate Professor in Psychiatry (2016). Her research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying cognitive control in clinical disorders such as ADHD and substance abuse, using neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods. Key interests include relapse risk prediction in substance users, adolescent vulnerability to addiction, and translational neuroscience for targeted interventions.
Education: BA (Psychology, UCD, 1999), Graduate Diploma in Statistics (Trinity College Dublin, 2002), PhD (Cognitive Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, 2005). Professional milestones include a Klingenstein Fellowship (2008) and the Joe P. Tupin Award (2013). She coordinates advanced research modules in DCU’s MSc in Psychology and Wellbeing. Dr. Fassbender has been funded by NIH/NIDA and collaborates on projects examining ADHD neurobiology, adolescent substance use, and psychiatric comorbidities.
- Research Themes: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Addiction Neuroscience, ADHD, Clinical Psychopharmacology
- Key Projects: Longitudinal studies on ADHD brain networks, neural correlates of relapse in poly-substance abuse, and reward processing in adolescents
