Dr. Gratton is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and PI of the Gratton Lab, housed in the Beckman Institute. Dr. Gratton received her B.S. in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of Illinois in and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley. Subsequently, Dr. Gratton did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Neurology department at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Gratton’s research focuses on the organization and function of human brain networks and how they contribute to goal-directed cognition. She is interested in how these systems vary across people and over the lifespan. Dr. Gratton uses a multifaceted approach, adopting a variety of human brain imaging methods, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and recordings from patients to study how brain systems function and change. Dr. Gratton was named an American Psychological Society “Rising Star” in honor of this work.