Kaoru Nashiro received her Ph.D. from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, where she was awarded the Heinz Osterburg Prize for Best Dissertation. She completed postdoctoral training at the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas and then returned to USC where she has been research assistant professor since 2017. In this role, she directed the ‘Heart Rate Variability and Emotion Regulation’ (HRV-ER) clinical trial [link to https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13415-022-01032-w] and is currently leading follow-up studies. She was recently promoted to Research Associate Professor and Emotion & Cognition Lab Clinical Trial Director. Congratulations Kaoru!