About Me

Ty Lees

I am currently a Research Fellow at McLean Hospital and 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.