Kyle Treiber

Dr Kyle Treiber is a Research Associate and occasional lecturer at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology responsible for the neurocognitive elements of the Peterborough Adolescent of Young Adult Development Study. She graduated from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in 1997 and earned her BS in Psychology and a minor in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001. She moved to Cambridge in 2002 to undertake her MPhil in Criminology, for which she was awarded the Lopez-Rey Graduate Prize. She went on to complete her PhD at Cambridge in 2008, winning the 2008 Nigel Walker Prize for her thesis on Executive Capabilities, Self-Control and Crime. Her research interests include the biology of morality and self-control and the interaction between individuals and environments.