Amanda Ramos earned her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Penn State University. She was an NRSA Postdoctoral Scholar in the Epidemiology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

As a researcher she integrates prenatal development with family systems and biological perspectives to examine how children's regulation, social competence, and executive functioning develop. Her work focuses on understanding how multiple contexts, including the family and prenatal environment (e.g., environmental exposures, depression, anxiety), individual child factors (e.g., regulation), and genetics shape children’s developmental outcomes (e.g., social competence, psychopathology, and neurodevelopmental competencies). She also consider how health disparities in prenatal exposure to toxicants influences the mother and child development.

She has three main lines of research: 
(1) examining the effects of the prenatal environment (e.g., stress and environmental exposures) on child social and neurodevelopmental competencies; 
(2) examining family process and risk on child development; and 
(3) examining the intersection of prenatal and family influences to capture developmental pathways influencing children’s early development.