Ruchi Punatar

        
Ruchi Punatar has been studying human development since 2005. She spent three years working at the Institute of Human Development at UC Berkeley in an infant emotion, cognition, and locomotion lab. She completed her honors thesis in 2008 on the role of emotions in learning. After graduating from Berkeley in 2008 with a B.A. in Psychology, she decided that she wanted to continue working with kids but in a clinical setting. Outside of work she enjoys attending college football games, hiking, traveling, and playing scrabble.