Jennifer Silk is a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the development of affective disorders in adolescence, such as anxiety, depression, and suicidality. Her research focuses on the interplay between youths’ social environments and underlying neurobiological vulnerabilities. As part of this work, she has developed novel methods for assessing emotional reactivity and regulation in adolescence, including ecological momentary assessment methods to sample adolescents’ social and emotional experiences in real time, and neuroimaging paradigms to assess brain responses to social feedback. She has published more than 150 articles and chapters on these topics and has led 7 NIH-funded grants. Dr. Silk was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in recognition of sustained outstanding contributions to the field and earned a Young investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, a National Postdoctoral Association Mentor of the Year Award, and was recognized at the White House as a winner of the National Behavioral Health Patient Empowerment Challenge. She has been a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh for 18 years.
