Jourdan is a PhD candidate in the LB3. He received a B.S. in Integrative Neuroscience from Binghamton University and an M.S. in Psychology from University of Florida. His research interests are situated at the interface between basic psychophysiology and clinical science. His current work focuses on aversive generalization, the process by which individuals are conditioned to associate innocuous cues (e.g. gratings, visual illusions, faces) with noxious stimuli (e.g. shock), and generalize these associations to similar cues. He studies how these processes are implemented in humans at multiple levels, from the brain (using EEG and fMRI) to the pupils and the heart. He is also interested in examining maladaptive aversive generalization as a model for anxiety disorders.