Miłka Waniak

Miłka Waniak is a first-year PhD at the SPL. She earned her B.S. from UC San Diego, where she double majored in Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience, and upon graduation worked full-time at Princeton University. Miłka is primarily interested in how different facets of emotional awareness shape emotion regulation. Her previous research has examined rejection reappraisal, affective abstraction and empathy, using combination of psychophysiological, neural and behavioral methods. In her free time, she enjoys staying active through sports like squash and practicing yoga, as well as doing art, such as painting.