Ashley Linden-Carmichael, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the College of Education. Her research aims to identify patterns, underlying mechanisms, and consequences of higher-risk alcohol use among young adults. Her research leverages intensive longitudinal data and nuanced analytic methods to uncover ages, subgroups, and moments that confer greatest risk. She is PI of an NIAAA K01 examining the etiology of simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use, and an R21 examining the impact of high-risk alcohol use on next-day cognitive functioning. She is Co-I of a NIDA R01 to develop best practices for using multilevel latent class analysis to capture the heterogeneity of daily substance use patterns. Before coming to the UO, Ashley was an Associate Research Professor in the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State University and Assistant Training Director for their NIDA T32 Prevention and Methodology Training Program. Ashley earned her PhD in Applied Experimental Psychology from Old Dominion University in 2016.