Annie Duchesne

Dr. Annie Duchesne (she/her) is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada, situated on the traditional unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation. Annie obtained her Ph.D. in neuroscience from McGill University in 2014 and completed a postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto in neuroendocrinology and cognitive neuroscience in 2017.

Annie’s experimental research program aims at understanding how hormones regulate cognitive and affective processes differently across situations and individuals, specifically focusing on stress, sex and gender using various neuroimaging and psychophysiological methods. Annie is also engaged in several transdisciplinary research initiatives to develop neuroscientific models and methods grounded in feminist theories. Since 2022, Annie has been part of Hidden Figures Canada, a national meta-scientific research collective dedicated to exploring how racism and Whiteness occur in the social and natural sciences (https://www.hiddenfigurescanada.org/).