Alainna Wen, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar in the ALACRITY Center under the Depression Grand Challenge. Her research centers on emotional processing, reactivity, and regulation in internalizing disorders such as depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress. Her recent work focused on conceptualizing the construct of emotion regulation diversity and developing a measure for its assessment. She is interested in using advanced statistical methods to identify internalizing disorder risk factors and mechanisms that can serve as novel treatment targets. Wen received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Advanced Quantitative Social Science from the University of Notre Dame and completed her clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
