Kelly Lambert is a behavioral neuroscientist interested in experience-based neuroplasticity. She enjoys teaching courses such as Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Neuroscience, and Neuroplasticity Seminar. She and her students are interested in using preclinical animal models to learn more about the neurobiology of stress, resilience, depression, parenting, and natural enrichment. In addition to publishing more than 70 research articles, Dr. Lambert has published two textbooks (Biological Psychology and Clinical Neuroscience) and three mainstream books (Lifting Depression: A neuroscientist's hands-on approach to activating your brain's healing power, The Lab Rat Chronicles: A neuroscientist reveals life lessons from the planet's most successful mammals and, most recently, Well-Grounded: The neurobiology of rational decisions. Her work has been featured on several news outlets such as National Geographic Radio Show, Big Picture Science, To the Best of our Knowledge, WIRED, and CBS Sunday Morning. Her behavioral research was described in her 2019 TEDx Bermuda talk. Dr. Lambert is an outstanding educator as well as researcher and has received multiple teaching awards: BL Virginia Professor of the Year (awarded by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) BL Outstanding Faculty Award (awarded by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)) BL VFIC Hiter Harris Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching BL International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Career Achievement Award