Dr. Cooper is a lecturer and faculty statistical consultant in the Psychological & Brain Sciences department. She primarily teaches statistics and statistics-adjacent courses at the undergraduate and graduate level including: Experimental Psychology, Applied Statistical Analysis with R, The General Linear Model and Beyond, Quantitative Methods I, and Quantitative Methods II. She additionally teaches neuroscience related courses including Biological Psychology (undergraduate) and Advanced Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (graduate). She is actively involved in the Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (CCSN) pathway and is a co-organizer of the St. Louis chapter of R-Ladies.
Dr. Cooper earned her B.A. in Psychology at Boston University. She then spent 5 years at San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF. Finally, she completed her doctoral work at Washington University which included completing the CCSN pathway and certificate in Quantitative Data Analysis.