Megan deBettencourt graduated from Princeton in 2016 with a PhD in neuroscience. During her time at Princeton, she was a resident graduate student at Forbes College and a recipient of a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Currently, she is a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory, with a methodological emphasis on developing brain-computer interfaces. Outside of lab, she now runs along the lakeshore rather than the tow path.