Gabriel Cruz Rodríguez is a predoctoral student in the Biobehavioral Health and the Social & Behavioral Neuroscience program at Penn State. He is also working towards a Ph.D. minor in the Department of Statistics. He is mentored by Michael Russell and Eric Claus, professors of biobehavioral health at Penn State.

Gabriel is interested in combining data sampled in a laboratory setting with data collected in a person’s day-to-day to develop a biological, cognitive, and behavioral understanding of the etiology of drinking dynamics and its association with alcohol-related consequences. He aims to integrate functional magnetic resonance imaging and ambulatory assessment data (ecological momentary assessment and transdermal alcohol concentration sensors) to understand the bidirectional relationship between alcohol and inhibitory control.

Gabriel earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Puerto Rico—Cayey.

About PAMT

The Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) program, funded by a T32 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, trains predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the integration of prevention science and statistical methodology for the behavioral sciences.