Dr. Kelly Lambert is the Trawick Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Richmond, where she investigates experience-based neuroplasticity and teaches multiple neuroscience courses. She has approximately 85 scholarly publications and has written two neuroscience textbooks and three mainstream books including Lifting Depression, The Lab Rat Chronicles, and Well-Grounded. She is currently writing Wild Brains: Translating Adaptive Mental Health Strategies from the Bush to the Bedside. Lambert was awarded the 2008 Virginia Professor of the Year award, the 2018 Career Achievement Award given by the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, and the 2024 Science Educator Award (by the Society for Neuroscience). During the 2024-25 academic year, she visited campuses across the USA as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. Her research targeting connections between physical effort and emotional resilience has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and her rat-driving research has been featured in over 1500 news stories across the world, including the Netflix series The Hidden Lives of Pets and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Rat City.
