Affiliation: Indiana University School of Medicine, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Phillip Starski graduated with a B.S. in Neuroscience from Central Michigan University in 2013. In 2020, he was awarded his PhD in Neuroscience from the Mayo Clinic School of Biomedical Sciences, studying the effects of repeated alcohol exposure on innate impulsive behavior. He is currently at Indiana University’s Stark Neuroscience Research Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana, studying the role of the anterior insula in compulsive alcohol intake. Specifically, he is interested in neural activity between the anterior insula and its salience network counterparts in various engagement behaviors for alcohol.