| Professor Hammack is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Vermont (UVM). He earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the Florida State University in 1995. Dr. Hammack then joined the Maier-Watkins laboratory under the mentorship of Professors Steven Maier and Linda Watkins at the University of Colorado, Boulder for his graduate studies where he earned a Master’s degree in Psychology in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Psychology in 2001. In 2002, Dr. Hammack joined in Donald Rainnie’s laboratory at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia to conduct postdoctoral studies investigating the physiology of brain regions associated with fear and anxiety-like behavior. He joined the psychology faculty at UVM in 2006. Dr. Hammack’s dissertation thesis was nominated for the 2002 Donal B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience, and he was the recipient of a postdoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award in 2004. He currently directs a laboratory at UVM that is conducting multiple studies associated with the neurobiology of emotion and stress-resilience, with a particular interest in the bed nucleus of stria terminalis and its modulation by serotonin. |
