Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez (pronouns he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences in the Division of Environmental Health at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Cardenas-Iniguez completed his PhD in Psychology and Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Chicago in 2019. As the Director of the Context, Complexity, and Impact (CCI) Lab, he focuses his research on using large-cohort datasets, such as the ABCD Study, to explore how social stratification shapes the environments in which people live and, in turn, how these environments affect neural and cognitive development and mental health. Dr. Cardenas-Iniguez is also involved with the Geospatial Hub of the Network for Exposomics in the US (NEXUS) Coordinating Center, where he leads efforts to develop consensus-based metadata standards for environmental exposures in human exposome research. His broader work emphasizes integrating environmental and social responsibility into neuroscience and psychology, including applying critical methodologies to illuminate the role of systemic forces in shaping developmental outcomes.

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