Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Daniel W. Oesterle earned his B.S. in exercise physiology in 2012 from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Following his undergraduate training, Dan worked on federally funded sexual violence prevention research at Brown University, Medical University of South Carolina, and Georgia State University. In 2020, Dan entered the Clinical Science program at Purdue University, where his graduate research focused on identifying risk factors for sexual violence perpetration using innovative, process-oriented, and ecologically valid methodologies. Dan is currently completing his clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he works with Lindsay Orchowski on research aimed at reducing risk for sexual perpetration and victimization. Following internship, Dan will join Auburn University as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences. There, he will direct the Perfect Storm Lab, where his research will focus on identifying dynamic, multilevel risk processes underlying sexual violence and translating these processes into precision assessment strategies that identify and predict perpetration risk in real-world contexts.