Anne TM Konkle is an associate professor in the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, where she has been a faculty member since 2009. Trained as a behavioural neuroscientist, she completed her doctorate at the University of Ottawa, examining how environmental and genetic factors interact to shape depressive-like symptomatology in an animal model. She pursued postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Maryland in Baltimore (USA) and at the Université de Liège (Belgium), where she investigated steroidogenesis, rapid hormonal regulation and neurodevelopment. Before joining the University of Ottawa, she was a visiting scientist at Health Canada, where she studied the neurobehavioural effects of perinatal exposure to environmental contaminants.
She served for five years as undergraduate program director at uOttawa’s Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, where she contributed to curriculum innovation and academic program development within the School. She supervises and mentors undergraduate and graduate students across a range of interdisciplinary mental health research topics.
Professor Konkle has received many awards for her academic leadership, her research and teaching. Her current research program focuses on mental health across the lifespan, particularly among women, parents and diverse families during key life transitions. She is committed to public scholarship and knowledge translation, engaging with both the broader community, through her mental health blog and collaborations with organizations, and with young learners, through outreach that fosters early interest in the brain, behaviour and mental health.
Professor Konkle is accepting new students for thesis supervision.