Dr. Corina Bondi is a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neurobiology, an Associate Director at the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research and Training Faculty with the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacology/Neuroscience from the University of Texas Health at San Antonio. Dr. Bondi is an Academic Editor for Brain Research, BMC Neuroscience, and the Journal of Neurotrauma. She has served as Secretary/Treasurer and Chair of Finance and Fundraising for the National Neurotrauma Society, where she currently serves as Vice President-elect (2024-2025). Dr. Bondi also serves as scientific reviewer on study sections with the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research. Her research interests focus on complex cognitive deficits and distinct neurobehavioral and neurochemical alterations relevant to psychiatric disorders after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in rodents. Her expertise of 20 years and over 70 manuscripts reflects the overlap of cognitive neuroscience, stress neurochemistry, and TBI neuropathology. She published the first papers using the digging and operant set-shifting tasks after TBI, which are akin to the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task that is used clinically in patients to assess executive function. She is a 2024 recipient of the prestigious NIH/NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship and has mentored over 75 trainees, including students from all backgrounds at all levels of education – high school, undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral, and residents.