Presenter

Montserrat Pacheco, born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is a senior McNair Scholar and Burnett Honors Scholar at the University of Central Florida, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a concentration in neuroscience and a minor in Statistics. She serves as a research assistant at the Adaptive Human Systems Lab (AHSL), a transdisciplinary research group integrating psychology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. In addition, she works as a registered behavior technician, providing applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy to children on the autism spectrum to support communication, social development, and independence. Her primary research interests focus on how environmental and biological factors interact to shape neurodevelopment in children. She aims to pursue graduate education and continue advancing the field of Psychology and Neuroscience.