Nina Kraguljac is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology and holds center appointments in the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center, the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and the Center for the Development of Functional Imaging. Dr. Kraguljac received her MD degree at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria and a Masters’ degree in Psychology at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg, Austria.

She joined UAB in 2009 as a psychiatry research track resident and accepted a faculty position in 2013. She has been awarded the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry. She has also been appointed to the APA Council on Research, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Maintenance of Certification Part III Pilot Committee, and the APA Assembly.

Edward Byrant is a graduate of the Heersink School of Medicine and he has participated in a summer research project in psychiatry supported by a Ruth L. Kirschtein National Service T25 Short-Term Research Training program as a medical student. His research interests focus on computational psychiatry in psychosis spectrum disorders, and he serves as a liaison between the program and residents.