Megan C. Chen, B.A.
Hey there! I’m Megan, an aspiring clinical psychological scientist. 👋
Megan C. Chen, B.A.
Hey there! I’m Megan, an aspiring clinical psychological scientist. 👋
I am a post-baccalaureate Clinical Research Assistant at University of Michigan Medicine’s Mobile Health and Adaptive Interventions Lab (mHail), where I support four NIMH-funded grants focused on leveraging mobile technologies to develop adaptive interventions for suicidal youth, adults, and families. I graduated magna cum laude from New York University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2024, with a degree in psychology and economics. My honors thesis was advised by Dr. Lawrence Ian Reed, where I studied depression and decision-making biases. The big research question I am interested in is Why do people hurt themselves? And how can we best intervene to support them? To answer this question, I would like to leverage novel assessment methods (e.g., intensive longitudinal data, machine learning, and computational clinical science) and mobile technologies to measure how behaviors like suicide and self-injury unfold in real time and to assess the cognitive factors and risk factors associated with them (e.g., distress, affect). I'm also interested in theory formalization, psychometrics, and meta-science.
I plan on pursuing a PhD in clinical psychology.
In my free time, I enjoy figure skating, journaling, and finding new study spots!