Alina Lesnovskaya is a Ph.D. student in the Clinical/Health Psychology Program at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a joint program with Carnegie Mellon University. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2015, where she studied Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience. Alina's research interests focus on the etiology of healthy cognitive aging and the early identification of neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, Alina is interested in examining exercise as an accessible intervention. In her free time, Alina enjoys snowboarding, hiking up mountains, and seeking out all of the live music events Pittsburgh has to offer.