Sam is a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2019. He is interested in the interactions between fear and avoidance processes and how potentially maladaptive manifestations of these processes (e.g., overgeneralization) relate to personality individual differences and psychopathology (e.g., PTSD and OCD), with a goal of leveraging this work to inform etiological accounts of and interventions for anxiety and trauma-related psychopathology. He uses a range of measurement modalities and multivariate statistical approaches (e.g., EFA, SEM, mixture models) to support this work. His clinical interests are centered on exposure- and acceptance-based approaches to PTSD and anxiety pathology. Sam received and continues to receive excellent mentorship at all stages of his academic career, and highly values paying it forward. Sam is a New Yorker both in terms of origin and temperament, and his hobbies include judo, discussing obscure sports trivia, creating obnoxiously long functions in R, and everything involving his pit/husky mix named Frank.