Miguel Nuñez, Ph.D.

Miguel Nuñez is a licensed psychologist with a focus on forensic mental health assessments. He is currently a forensic psychologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and New Hampshire Hospital, as well as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.

Dr. Nuñez completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the APA-accredited Clinical Child Psychology Specialty Program's Adolescent Forensic and Addiction Psychology Fellowship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He also completed his APA-accredited internship program at Brown within the Child-Track - Juvenile Justice/Behavioral Health program. Dr. Nuñez received his PhD at the APA-accredited doctoral training program in clinical psychology at the University of Cincinnati. During graduate school, he was the recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) and the University of Cincinnati Provost Graduate Research Fellowship. He was UC's student commencement speaker at the Summer 2023 doctoral hooding and master's recognition ceremony. 

His primary research interest is in the field of resilience and his clinical interest is in forensic psychology. His research explores how individual, social, and contextual factors promote positive outcomes in the face of trauma, maltreatment, and systemic disadvantage.