Mia Coutinho

Mia researches the neuroanatomy of bilingualism and is currently studying the neuroanatomical differences between bilinguals and monolinguals. Mia has recently presented her work at International conferences including ISBPAC (Swansea, Wales) and OHBM (Montreal, Canada). In the IPN, Mia is involved in Admissions and has served as a co-director of the student mentorship program. Mia graduated summa cum laude from Lafayette College in 2020 where she studied Neuroscience and Spanish. There, Mia investigated memory & anxiety with Dr. Meghan Caulfield and language learning with Dr. Luis Schettino. Mia's interest in the neuroscience of language grew further after teaching English as a Foreign Language in Barcelona, Spain (2018) and studying Spanish in Granada, Spain (2019). In 2020, Mia earned a Fulbright Grant in Madrid, Spain where she again taught EFL. She joined Georgetown University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience in 2021 through the Cognitive Science Concentration. Mia is now funded by the Neuroscience of Language T32 Grant.