Brandy Briones is a behavioral neuroscientist who successfully defended her Ph.D. research studying dorsal striatum- and hippocampus-dependent learning and memory at Princeton University in August 2020. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Stuber Lab in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Center of Excellence in Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion at University of Washington, Seattle. She studied psychobiology at the University of California Los Angeles and is originally from Southern California. In the Stuber Lab, Brandy studies how sex steroid hormone receptor-related genes in the paraventricular thalamus modulate social behavior. Outside of the lab Brandy enjoys playing sports, backpacking, film, and thrifting.