Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental and Population Neuroscience, University of Southern California, 2023–Present
• PhD in Neuroscience, Boston University, 2023
• BS in Psychology, University of the Virgin Islands, magna cum laude, 2017

Fellowships & Grants

• USC Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center Pilot Grant (2025)
• NIH DSPAN F99/K00 Fellowship (2021–2024)
• NIDA Scientific Training in Addiction Research Techniques (START) Fellow (2023)
• RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars Dissertation Grant (2022)
• Society for Neuroscience Neuroscience Scholars Program Fellow (2020–2022)
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars Fellowship (2018–2023)
• MBL SPINES Fellow and Travel Award (2019–2020)

Peer-Reviewed Publications and Preprints

1. Rosario, M. A., Sukumaran, K., Bottenhorn, K. L., de Jesus, A., Ahmadi, H., Cadenas-Iniguez, C., Habre, R., Abad, S., Pine, J. G., Barch, D. M., Schwartz, J., Hackman, D., Chen, J. C., & Herting, M. M. (in prep). Fine particulate matter components and pollution sources differentially influence hippocampal structure and memory in pre-adolescent children.
2. Rosario, M. A., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Chavez, J., Bottenhorn, K. L., Ahmadi, H., Herting, M. M., & Thompson, W. K. (in prep). Prefrontal working memory activity partially mediates link between enriched neighborhood environments and episodic memory among 9-13-year-olds.
3. Sukumaran, K., Bottenhorn, K. L., Rosario, M. A., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Habre, R., Abad, S., ... & Herting, M. M. (2025). Sources and components of fine air pollution exposure and brain morphology in preadolescents. Science of The Total Environment, 979, 179448.
4. Morrel, J., Dong, M., Rosario, M. A., Cotter, D. L., Bottenhorn, K. L., & Herting, M. M. (2025). A systematic review of air pollution exposure and brain structure and function during development. Environmental Research, 121368.
5. Bottenhorn, K. L., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Schachner, J. N., Rosario, M. A., Mills, K. L., Laird, A. R., & Herting, M. M. (2024). Adolescent neurodevelopmental variance across social strata. JAMA Network Open, 7, e2410441. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.10441
6. Rosario, M. A., Kern, K. L., Mumtaz, S., Storer, T. W., & Schon, K. (2024). Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with cortical thickness of medial temporal brain areas associated with spatial cognition in young but not older adults. European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(1), 82-100. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16200
7. Rosario, M. A., Alotaibi, R., Espinal-Martinez, A. O., Ayoub, A., Clark, U., Baumann, A., Cozier, Y., & Schon, K. (2024). Personal mastery attenuates the association between greater perceived discrimination and lower amygdala and anterior hippocampal volume in a diverse sample of older adults. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.12.575447