Dr. Provenza is an assistant professor of Neurosurgery and McNair Scholar at Baylor College of Medicine. She received her PhD in biomedical engineering from Brown University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at BCM. Provenza’s research focuses on the neurophysiology underlying cognition and emotion and the effects of neuromodulation on neural activity and behavior. Her work integrates neural activity and deep phenotyping approaches to inform neural signatures underlying real-world functional deficits in cognitive and emotional disorders. An improved understanding of the relationship between neural activity and behavior will enable the development of improved neuromodulation strategies that more effectively guide brain activity and behavior toward healthy states.