Emily Bray is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Arizona Canine Cognition Center in the College of Veterinary Medicine and at Canine Companions, a national non-profit that has been providing service dogs to people with disabilities since 1975.

She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in psychology, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. While conducting her research investigating the cognitive, behavioral, and early environmental factors that affect later life outcomes in dogs, Emily has closely mentored over 30 students and interns.

Over the past 10 years, she has developed and implemented cognitive tasks in hundreds of dogs from both pet and working dog populations, forming the basis for projects ranging in scope from understanding early maternal style to cognitive aging to how genetics contribute to behavioral traits.