Regina Lapate, PhD

Dr. Regina Lapate earned her PhD in 2015 under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied the function of conscious awareness in emotion, and the neural correlates of successful emotion regulation. In 2016, she was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship to examine the representational properties and causal mechanisms of lateral prefrontal function in emotion with Dr. Mark D’Esposito at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018, she co-edited the 2nd edition of The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions. Dr. Lapate received the Association for Psychological Sciences Rising Star Award (2021) and the UCBS’s Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship Award (2023). She has been named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow (2023) and a Hellman Fellow (2024).