Chicoli, Amanda

Bio

Dr. Amanda Chicoli is a senior lecturer in the Psychology Department. She is also the research coordinator for the neuroscience major, a faculty advisor for the minor in neuroscience, the faculty advisor for NuRhoPsi and the course director for NEUR305: Neural Systems and Circuits. She has been teaching at the University of Maryland full time since 2019.

Previously, she earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science from the University of Maryland where she used behavioral and computational approaches to study collective behavior and decision making in groups of fish. Upon graduation, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institution for Science where she used molecular, genetic, and whole-brain imaging to investigate the connectivity and function of the zebrafish dorsal habenulae.

Degrees

2016, Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park
2010, B.S. in Biology & Psychology (dual major), minor: History, certificate in neuroscience, Brooklyn College - CUNY

Research Topics

Courses currently taught at the University of Maryland, College Park:

NEUR305: Neural Systems & Circuits – Spring and Fall semesters
PSYC300: Research Methods in Psychology – Fall semester
PSYC302: Learning & Behavior - Fall semester
PSYC307: Collective Behavior & Decision Making – Spring semester
PSYC409: Topics in Neuroscience – Fall semester
PSYC431: Human & Animal Intelligence – Spring semester

Courses previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park:

PSYC489P: Scientific Ethics and Integrity, Spring 2020
BSCI454: Neurobiology Laboratory (co-instructor with Dr. Hilary Bierman), Fall 2019
BSCI353: Principles of Neuroscience, Fall 2018

Short-term Faculty Led Study Abroad program: PSYC302: Learning and Behavior in the Irish Context, launched Summer 2026

Personal Website(s)

Personal website

Amanda Chicoli
Senior Lecturer

| 1107B Biology Psychology Building

| achicoli@umd.edu

| 3014055941