Dr. Paola Giusti-Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida. Dr. Giusti-Rodríguez grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she earned a BS in biology at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. She completed her PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology at Harvard University, where her doctorate research focused on the molecular basis of neurodegeneration. Dr. Giusti-Rodríguez carried out her postdoctoral research with Dr. Patrick Sullivan at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she employed the multiparental Collaborative Cross mouse population to better understand antipsychotic side effects. In 2016, she was awarded a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award by the National Institute of Mental Health focused on the generation of high-resolution chromatin interaction data from human brain using Hi-C to facilitate the interpretation and prioritization of psychiatric genetic findings. Her work lies at the intersection between neuroscience and functional genomics, and she aims to integrate the tools and techniques of these fields to shed light on the genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders. In 2019, Dr. Giusti-Rodríguez was selected for the first cohort of the Human Genetics Scholars Initiative (2019-2021) developed by the American Society of Human Genetics to advance diversity and inclusion in the human genetics research workforce. Dr. Giusti-Rodríguez is co-founder and co-leader of the Latin American Genomics Consortium, which seeks to increase the representation of research participants and investigators from Latinx admixed ancestry in genetic studies on psychiatric disorders.