Dr. Niki Hosseini-Kamkar completed her PhD in Psychology at Western University, Canada, where she utilized various neuroimaging techniques to examine the associations between adverse early-life experiences and the neurobiology of the HPA axis, as well as the mesolimbic dopamine pathway. Following this, she pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University, contributing to a longitudinal positron emission tomography (PET) imaging study. This study aimed to prospectively test how individual differences in externalizing traits, exposure to adversity, and reduced midbrain D2 autoreceptor availability increase the risk for substance use and related disorders. Dr. Kamkar later served as a Neuroimaging Research Associate under the supervision of Dr. Nicholson at the Atlas Institute for Veterans and Families. In this role, she examined the neurobiological correlates of minority stress exposure and its connections to mental health outcomes. Currently, Dr. Kamkar is an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology in Dubai, where her research program focuses on investigating whether and how resilience interventions can modulate the reactivity of the HPA axis and mesolimbic dopamine pathway.