Dr. Annmarie MacNamara received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University in 2013. Dr. MacNamara joined the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in 2016. Dr. MacNamara's research focuses on the cognitive and affective neuroscience of normative and disordered mental health, with a particular focus on anxiety, depression and trauma-related psychopathology. She has received more than $3.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and her work is also supported by a Texas A&M X-Grant. Dr. MacNamara is an Associate Editor for Psychophysiology and the International Journal of Psychophysiology, winner of the 2022 Society for Psychophysiological Research Early Career Award and the 2021 Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, recipient of a 2020 travel award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and was designated a 2018 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. She has served as a reviewer for NIH and the National Science Foundation and is Junior Councilor to the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Dr. MacNamara teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in psychopathology and statistics, and mentors undergraduate, post-baccalaureate and graduate students in her Multimethod Affect and Cognition (MAC) lab.