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Navigating the Academic Job Market: Application Process and Insight from Recent Experiences | Webinar
Ka I Ip, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Dr. Ip is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development (ICD). Dr. Ip is proud to be a first-generation immigrant and to have begun his academic career at a community college. He obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical and Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan and was a Susan-Nolen Hoeksema Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University before joining ICD. He is currently the director of the D.A.N.C.E. (Development, Affective Neuroscience, Culture & Environment) Lab studying culture, children and adolescents’ mental health and the developing brain.
His research focuses a) on typical and atypical emotion regulation development, b) examining the ways that cultural contexts shape emotion regulation, and c) how early adversity, structural racism and social determinants of health may “get under the skin” to confer risk and resilience for developmental psychopathology and health disparities. His career goal is to use this knowledge to inform intervention and social policy that aims to reduce racial-ethnic inequalities and advance health equity.