About Me

Ty Lees

I am currently an Assistant Neuroscientist at McLean Hospital and Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School working with Diego Pizzagalli and Dan Dillon in the Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research. Previously, I held a postdoctoral position in the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State University where I worked with Lisa Gatzke-Kopp on the Family Life Project.

My current research interests primarily focus on self-monitoring behavior that lies at the intersection of performance monitoring and decision-making processes, how this cognitive system develops, and how different developmental trajectories intersect with other aspects of a person’s life, in particular psychopathology and self-regulatory behaviour.

Prior to moving the US, I was born and raised in Australia, and obtained my Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Neurophysiology from the University of Technology Sydney; my doctoral dissertation used a psychophysiological approach to evaluate “The impact of stress and anxiety on the neurocognitive performance of Australian nurses”.

Outside of academia, I am avid cyclist, an occasional painter, a sometimes hiker, and enjoy travelling when the world allows.