Emily B. May
Doctoral Candidate
Academic education
| since 2023 | Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany Lab rotation in the orientation phase: Julia Sacher |
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| since 2023 | Master of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 2019–2023 | Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience, minor in Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, USA |
Research experiences
| 2022–2023 | Research internship, Department of Psychology (Dr. Annie Duchesne), University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada |
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| 2021–2023 | Research Internship, Department of Neurology (Dr. Leorah Freeman), University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, USA |
| 2020–2022 | Research internship, Department of Integrative Biology (Dr. Steven Phelps), University of Texas at Austin, USA |
Teaching
| 2021–2022 | Teaching assistant, Department of Neuroscience, Neural Systems I, University of Texas at Austin, USA |
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| 2020–2022 | Undergraduate teaching assistant, then head of undergraduate teaching assistant, Originality in the Arts and Sciences, research grant proposal course, University of Texas at Austin, USA |
Scientific awards and scholarships
| 2023 | Best Oral Presentation Balancing the Brain: Sex, Gender, and Neuroscience Conference, Toronto, Canada |
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| 2023 | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP, declined) |
| 2023 | UT Austin Conference Travel Scholarship to present at Balancing the Brain Conference in Toronto, ON, Canada |
| 2023 | Edwin M. Jones Scholarship research funding |
| 2022 | UT Austin College of Natural Science Summer Experience Scholarship for research internship at UNBC |
| 2022 | Junior Fellows Scholarship research funding |
| 2021 | Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Sciences (TIDES) Advanced Summer Research Fellowship for research internship at UT Austin |
| 2020 | Undergraduate Research Fellowship research funding |
Poster presentations and talks
May, E. B., Tandy, S., & Duchesne, A. (2023, March). Many paths to the many pills: Accounting for context through a biosocial framework of hormonal contraceptive selection, usage, and affective outcomes [Talk]. Balancing the Brain: Sex, Gender, and Neuroscience Conference, University of Toronto, Canada.
May, E. B., Charron, O., & Freeman, L. (2023, April). Characterization of multiple sclerosis atrophy using neural network-based brain segmentation tools [Talk]. College of Natural Science Honors Thesis Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
May, E. B., Tripp, J., & Phelps, S. (2022, April). Developing a novel approach for identifying neurons holding the memory of social bonds [Poster] requested to present by Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science, College of Natural Science Undergraduate Research Forum, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Photo: Nikolaus Brade