Stefanie Sequeira

Stefanie Sequeira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia, focusing on clinical psychology, adolescent mental health, and neuroimaging. Her research explores how social threat and reward processes develop during childhood and adolescence, linking these mechanisms to psychopathology such as anxiety disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs).

• Integrates ecological momentary assessment (EMA), fMRI, and eye-tracking into her work
• Pursues three research lines: novel measures for social threat/reward, brain-behavior links in psychopathology, and associations between reward functioning, anxiety, and STBs in adolescence
• Lab: Brains, Emotions, and Adolescent Relationships (BEAR) Lab

Her recent publications examine social media impacts on adolescent affect, neuroimaging in ADHD, climate change anxiety, and cultural humility in psychology training. She is recruiting graduate students for Fall 2024.