Lucina Q. Uddin Ph.D.

Lucina Uddin, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the psychology department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Uddin completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Child Study Center at New York University. For several years she worked as a faculty member in Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Stanford University. She then joined the Psychology Department at the University of Miami, where she was the cognitive and behavioral neuroscience division's founding director. She returned to UCLA in 2021, where she currently directs the Brain Connectivity and Cognition Laboratory in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Within a cognitive network neuroscience framework, Dr. Uddin’s research combines functional and structural neuroimaging to examine the organization of large-scale brain networks supporting executive functions. Her current projects focus on understanding dynamic network interactions underlying cognitive inflexibility in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. Dr. Uddin’s work has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, JAMA Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, PNAS, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. She was awarded the Young Investigator Award by the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in 2017.