Dr. Ashley Knapp Bio

Ashley Knapp, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor within the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Her research interests involve leveraging emerging technologies to study the vulnerability of anxiety and related psychopathology in adolescents and to develop and evaluate effective prevention programs designed to reduce the incidence of anxiety and related disorders. She was recently awarded a NIMH-funded K01 award focused on digital mental health, with emphasis on harnessing digital tools to extend preventive interventions to underserved youth in community settings. She received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Arkansas (2016), where she was awarded a NIMH-funded F31 to develop and evaluate a brief anxiety “preintervention” for at-risk youth. She went on to complete postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth College (2018) and at the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at Northwestern University (2019).