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Sihong Liu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention (SNAP) Laboratory. Her research adopts the developmental psychopathology perspective and examines children's and adolescents' developmental risk and resilience, as well as individual heterogeneity, following exposure to early life stress. Guided by the translational neuroscience framework, Sihong also studies early intervention strategies that can disrupt the developmental pathways from early adversity to psychopathology and promote resilience. Sihong examines developmental risk and resilience using a mutli-level and multi-method approach, with an emphasis on psychophysiological and neurological mechanisms (e.g., autonomic nervous system biomarkers, cortisol, and fMRI) underlying these influences of early life stress. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Sihong has also been involved in the RAPID project and expanded her research to a greater focus on revealing developmental and health disparities based on race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, and other demographic characteristics in order to directly inform policy changes.