NATALIE SALMANOWITZ
[email protected]
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-present
Stanford Law School
Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society (SPINS) Fellow
 Research focus: Neuroprediction for Schizophrenia
EDUCATION
2014-2015
Duke University
Master of Arts
Bioethics and Science Policy (Concentration in Neuroscience)
 Master’s Thesis
o “Unconventional Methods for a Traditional Setting: The Use of
Neurointerventions to Reduce Implicit Racial Bias in the Courtroom”
o Advisor: Professor Nita Farahany
2011-2014
Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Arts
Neuroscience (major); Theater (minor)
 Undergraduate Thesis
o “Insula Activation to Faces Predicts Judgments of Guilt”
o Advisor: Professor Jon Freeman
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2013-2014
2012-2013
HONORS AND AWARDS
Co-Valedictorian at Dartmouth College
 Delivered Valedictory Address at Commencement
Fulbright Scholarship Recipient
 Received Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in Argentina
 Declined to accept position as master’s candidate at Duke
Summa Cum Laude at Dartmouth College
 Awarded to top 5% of graduates
Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth College
 Early inductee, awarded to the top 20 seniors
Departmental High Honors at Dartmouth College
 Determined by Neuroscience Faculty Steering Committee
Dartmouth Neuroscience Award for Excellence in Thesis Presentation
 Awarded to top neuroscience thesis poster presentation
Kaminsky Family Fund Award
 Research grant for undergraduate thesis research
James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar
 Research grant for undergraduate research assistantship
PUBLICATIONS
Salmanowitz, N. (2015). The case for pain neuroimaging in the courtroom: Lessons from deception
detection. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2(1), 139-148.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsv003
2015 (May)
2014 (Summer)
2014-2015
2013-2014
2012-2013
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
University of Oxford
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Visiting Student
 Worked on Duke master’s thesis under the guidance of Oxford professor
Dr. Thomas Douglas
Yale University
Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Summer Institute
 8 week intensive program in bioethics consisting of lectures, seminars,
and a final research project
 Recipient of the Pollard Prize in Bioethics—awarded to top
undergraduate for originality and excellence in final research project
LABORATORY RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Independent Research Project at Duke University
 Utilized a modified version of the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP)
to explore whether crime scene photos implicitly impact evaluations of
neutral faces
 Advisor: Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Attitudes and
Decision-Making Lab in the Kenan Institute for Ethics
Senior Honors Thesis in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College
 Used fMRI to explore perceptions of guilt in a criminal context
 Advisor: Professor Jon Freeman, Social Cognitive and Neural Sciences
Lab
Presidential Scholar Research Assistant at Dartmouth College
 Assisted in EEG and fMRI data collection and analysis
 Principal Investigator: Professor Peter Tse