A. Esin Asan

A. Esin "Essie" Asan is a doctoral candidate at Penn State University's clinical psychology program, working under Dr. Aaron Pincus. She is from Istanbul, Turkey and has studied in the US for 10 years. She serves as the President of the Society for Personality Assessment Graduate Students board and is a member of the SPAGS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Leadership committees as well as SPA Awards and Leadership Development committees. Her research interests are focused on dimensional and dynamic measures of personality pathology and interpersonal behavior, particularly using novel quantitative methods to improve existing assessment measures and taking longitudinal approaches to assessing personality. Clinically, she is interested in integrating personality assessment with her psychotherapy practice.