Biography

Dr. Alber earned her Honors B.S. in neuroscience, with a minor in psychology, from Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. She completed a Master’s in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology and a Ph.D. in human cognitive neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh Scotland, and a post-doctoral fellowship in the Clinical Psychology Training Consortium at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Alber is passionate about early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, having lost three out of four of her grandparents to the disease during her childhood and young adulthood. Specifically, she is aiming to develop non-invasive biomarkers to detect Alzheimer’s risk, prior to the onset of symptoms and loss of function in older adults.

She has been an assistant professor at URI at the George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences since 2018. Her lab is situated at the Butler Hospital Memory & Aging Program in Providence, RI. Dr. Alber is originally from near Toronto, Canada and enjoys all winter sports, including hockey, snow-shoeing, skiing, and ice skating. She lives with her husband Ben, daughter Violet and golden shepherd, Cooper.