Dr. Sperry is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Emotion and Temporal Dynamics (EmoTe) Lab. She is a key investigator and an Associate Director of the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program within the Eisenberg Family Depression Center and Department of Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine. Dr. Sperry's clinical and research expertise is in bipolar spectrum disorders (BSDs). The broad mission of her work is to improve early detection, predict illness trajectory, and develop personalized interventions for BSDs. She has several extramurally and intramurally funded research studies aimed at using mobile technology, affective neuroscience methods, and intensive longitudinal modeling to identify affective and cognitive mechanisms underlying the development and maintenance of bipolar spectrum disorders. She has published extensively on behavioral phenotyping of emotion and cognition in BSDs in clinical psychology, affective science, and psychiatry journals.