Dr. Herrington is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He directs the Emotion and Neurodiversity Laboratory, and is Co-Director of the Developmental Neuroimaging Program at CHOP's Center for Autism Research. Dr. Herrington's work focuses on social and emotional information processes in neurotypical and neurodiverse populations, with a particular emphasis on the co-occurrence of anxiety disorders in autism. His research examines the problem of anxiety in ASD across multiple levels of analysis, from neurobiological systems to clinical practice. Dr. Herrington has two active NIH grants focused on the identification of depression and anxiety symptoms using computer vision and computational linguistics.

BA, University of Michigan (Honors Psychology and English Literature), 1997

MPhil, University of Cambridge (Experimental Psychology), 2002

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Clinical Psychology), 2006

Internship, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (Clinical Psychology)

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)

Clinical Psychologist

Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry

Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2007-

Society for Neuroscience, 2010-

National Institute of Health, Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Study Section, Ad Hoc Panel Member, 2014-

International Society for Autism Research, Panel on Brain Function Co-chair, 2014-

Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, University of Michigan, 1997

Golden Key National Honor Society. 1997

Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology, University of Michigan, 1997

Rotary Foundation International Scholarship, 1999

Scheiderer Memorial Award for Outstanding Research or Scholarship by a Clinical Psychology Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005

Junior Investigator, National Science Foundation Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, 2010