Nancy Padilla-Coreano

Nancy Padilla-Coreano is a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Florida, where she leads the Padilla-Coreano Lab, studying the neural circuits and dynamics that support social competence and how they are altered in disease. Padilla-Coreano earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and her Ph.D. at Columbia University. She completed postdoctoral training at MIT and the Salk Institute. Her work has been recognized with awards from the NIH BRAIN Initiative, the Simons Foundation and the L’Oréal Women in Science Fellowship. She is passionate about amplifying the voices of young scientists whose backgrounds have been historically underrepresented in research. She is a cofounder of Stories of Women in Neuroscience, which produces interviews and profiles of women in neuroscience research in English and Spanish.