Leadership
Semel Academy Faculty Advisory Committee
Andrew Fuligni
• Chair of Committee and Director of Undergraduate Minor in Brain and Behavioral Health Program
Robert Bilder, PhD
• Director, Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity
• Professor, Psychology
• Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
• Professor In-Residence, Clinical Psychology
• Brain Research Institute
Adriana Galvan, PhD
• Jeffrey and Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience
• Associate Professor
• Department of Psychology
• Brain Research Institute
• Dean of Undergraduate Education
Chris Evans, PhD
• Co-Chair, Workforce Development
• Director, Brain Research Institute
• Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology
• Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
• Center for Addictive Behaviors
Christina Palmer, PhD
• Professor In-Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
• Professor In-Residence, Human Genetics
• Faculty, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics
Tara Peris, PhD
• Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA Semel Institute
• Program Director of the UCLA ABC Partial Hospitalization Program