The goals of my research are twofold. First, I want to understand factors that mechanistically contribute to the development and recurrence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) during childhood and adolescence. Second, I want to inform the development of more targeted prevention and intervention efforts to reduce STBs during childhood, adolescence, and beyond. I am particularly interested in identifying accessible and translatable real-world correlates of laboratory- and brain-based indices that can be therapeutically targeted to reduce youth STBs. I take a multiple-levels-of-analysis approach, integrating behavior (e.g., facial affect, eye-gaze), physiology (e.g., heart rate variability), and neuroscience (e.g., EEG, fMRI) with ecologically valid methods (e.g., ecological momentary assessment) in my research.