Eliza Bliss-Moreau is a core scientist in the Neuroscience and Behaviour Unit at the California National Primate Research Center and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Her work focuses on the biology of emotions in humans and animals, and since the Zika virus epidemic she has been studying the effects of the virus on the developing brain.
Bliss-Moreau attended Boston College, where she received her Bachelor of Science in biology and psychology with honors in 2002, and her Ph.D. in psychology in 2008. This is also where she met Lisa Feldman Barrett and worked under her, eventually running the Barrett Lab during her senior undergraduate year. After completing her education at Boston College, she moved to the University of California, Davis and worked with David Amaral, training as a neurosurgeon while working in his lab. She now runs her own lab, the Bliss-Moreau Lab which "conducts comparative and translational affective science using multimethod, multispecies approaches to understand the social and affective lives of humans and nonhuman animals."