Antonina Kilian

Antonina is a Research Assistant in the Buckner Laboratory. She graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Biopsychology, Cognition & Neuroscience as well as Classical Archaeology. As an undergraduate, she was a member of the Translational and Developmental Neuroscience Lab where she worked on the Study of Adolescent to Adult Neural Development. She completed a thesis on the link between indirect gun violence exposure and white matter connectivity metrics. In the summer of 2023 she joined the Shohamy Lab at Columbia University where she researched decision-making mechanisms in adolescent neurodevelopment. In her free time at Michigan she pursued her passion for archaeology and studied archaeobotanical remains to reconstruct the ancient Roman subsistence patterns. Antonina is interested in neural correlates of behaviors associated with brain damage and neurodegenerative diseases, and she hopes to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology or Cognitive Neuroscience in the future.