Soo H. Rhee

Soo H. Rhee is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a secondary affiliation at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics. She holds a PhD from Emory University (1999). Her research focuses on the etiology and development of substance use disorders, internalizing/externalizing disorders, and comorbidity between psychiatric disorders and substance use. She investigates behavioral genetics, developmental psychopathology, and clinical psychology, with studies on cannabis legalization impacts, parental influences on adolescent substance use, and longitudinal behavioral development.

Her active grants include NIH-funded projects (NIDA, NIA) such as the Colorado Adoption/Twin Study of Lifespan Behavioral Development and the Colorado-Minnesota Cannabis Study. She collaborates on grants as PI or co-investigator, exploring cannabis effects on mental health, familial transmission of substance use, and midlife behavioral/cognitive aging.

Rhee advises a team including Alaina Di Dio, Maya Rieselbach, and others. Her work appears in journals like Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, and Development and Psychopathology. She examines mechanisms linking genetics, environment, and behavior across lifespan transitions.