Katherine Bottenhorn

Assistant Professor

Psychology; Center for Children and Families


Katherine Bottenhorn
Dr. Bottenhorn earned her BAs in Chemistry and Psychology from Auburn University, then her MS and PhD in Psychology from Florida International University’s Cognitive Neuroscience program, followed by a postdoctoral position in Environmental Health Sciences in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. She is the Director of the BottenLab, which studies endocrine and environmental influences on adolescent brain development by applying explainable artificial intelligence approaches to human neuroimaging, biospecimen, and exposure data. Her current research focuses on endocrine-mediated pubertal brain network development, investigating roles of hormones in brain structure, function, and structure-function coupling in both population- and precision-level neuroimaging datasets.