Sophie attended Cal State San Bernardino where she worked with Dr. Dionisio Amodeo on the effects of serotonin modulation on repetitive behaviors and decision-making in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder. She was the first graduate student to join the Keiflin lab in the Fall of 2019. Her work investigates the neural circuits of context-dependent reward prediction. Specifically, she is using chemogenetic and optogenetic manipulations to determine how the orbitofrontal cortex orchestrates context-dependent ('“hierarchical”) learning and performance. Outside the lab, Sophie enjoys going on long runs along the Santa Barbara coast, petting dogs and sampling beers at the many local breweries.