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Jacob W. Koudys
Ph.D. Program in Counselling and Clinical Psychology
(Field: Clinical Psychology)
Department of Psychological Clinical Science
University of Toronto
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Anthony C. Ruocco; Co-Supervisor: Dr. Cendri Hutcherson
Education:
B.Sc., Psychology, University of Victoria
M.A., Counselling and Clinical Psychology (Field: Clinical Psychology), University of Toronto
Awards:
Society of Biological Psychiatry Travel Fellowship Award – Predoctoral Scholar (2024)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2023-2024)
Branch Out Neurological Foundation Graduate Grant (2022-2024)
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2019-2022)
Graduate Student Research Award-Master's Level, University of Toronto Scarborough (2018)
Franco Vaccarino University of Toronto Scarborough Graduate Scholarship (2018)
Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2017-2018)
Bassili Family Graduate Award (2017)
Branch Out Neurological Foundation Summer Studentship (2017)
Research Interests:
Jacob is applying tools of computational psychiatry to the study of dimensional psychopathology and suicidality. In his research, he validates novel decision-making and cognitive control paradigms in community samples to investigate neurocognitive mechanisms of suicide risk and planful versus impulsive suicide attempt.