Dr. Sanne van Rooij is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Stress and Neuromodulation Lab (SNL), Associate Director of Scientific Outreach and investigator at the Grady Trauma Project (GTP), and a faculty member of the Laney Graduate School Neuroscience Program.

Dr. van Rooij received her PhD in Clinical Neuroscience in 2015 from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and completed her postdoctoral fellowship with the GTP at Emory University. In 2019, she joined the Emory faculty and established the SNL with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Her research uses neuroimaging, neuromodulation and psychophysiology techniques to gain deeper insights into the mechanisms of resilience and recovery from traumatic stress. Her goal is to advance the development of innovative therapeutics for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as anxiety and depression. She developed a personalized neuroimaging-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation approach to treat PTSD and completed a clinical trial investigating its impact on PTSD symptoms and biomarkers.

She supports the careers of trainees of varying levels through her program of research and is committed to conveying her research on the impacts of stress, trauma and personalized medicine approaches to improve brain health.