Rodrigo Pedroza Llinas joined Kenyon’s Department of Neuroscience as visiting faculty in 2023. Before coming to Kenyon, he was visiting faculty at Rhodes College in Memphis. He was also lecturer in the Faculty of Psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, head of the Neuro Lab in the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City, and neuroscience manager in the LATAM branch of Nielsen’s Consumer Neuroscience business division.

Pedroza’s research has been related to the neurochemical properties of the limbic system in aversive learning. Using pharmacological and behavioral techniques, he has studied the role of the nucleus Accumbens in fear conditioning and conditioned taste aversion models.

Areas of Expertise

Affective neuroscience, neuroscience of learning and memory

Education

2013 — Doctor of Philosophy from Univ Nacional Autonoma Mexico

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