Caroline Charpentier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and the Brain and Behavior Institute. She obtained her PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London, UK, with her dissertation focusing on the interaction between emotions and decision-making. She then completed her postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology, studying the behavioral, neural, and computational mechanisms of social learning and decision-making. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing from social neuroscience, behavioral economics and computational psychiatry. Dr Charpentier’s research has received funding from the Wellcome Trust (Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship) and is currently supported by a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award from NIMH (2021-2026), investigating the neuro-computational mechanisms of social learning and variation along psychiatric symptom dimensions and in autism.