Lea is a first year graduate student in the social psychology program. Lea studied Psychology on a BSc program at the University of Edinburgh. While working on her undergraduate thesis project in Dr. Sarah Stanton’s Health and Relationship Processes (HARP) Lab, she became increasingly passionate about the intersection between health and relationship science. Additionally, she is interested in development, emotion regulation, self-expansion, (abnormal) eating behavior, and the biological and neuroscientific underpinnings of these processes. Outside of academia, Lea enjoys athletics, dancing, yoga, traveling, reading, baking, and cooking.