Matt Figueroa

Lab Manager

ORCID | mfigueroa@psych.ucla.edu

Matt is the Lab Manager of the Brain and Body Lab. He is interested in taking a multimodal approach to understanding the role of cognitive and affective processes as risk or resilience factors in the face of adversity. He graduated from UCLA in 2023 with a B.A. in Psychology, where he worked in Dr. Annette Stanton’s Stress and Coping Lab and Dr. George Slavich’s Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research.

When he is not in the lab, Matt enjoys trying new restaurants and spending time with his husband and their puppy Moose!