Behavioral Neuroscience
Courtney Alexander
Graduate student
Education: M.S. in Psychological Sciences, Pacific University
Interests: Long distance running, soccer, international travel, copious amounts of coffee, reading and keeping up to date with the latest Neuro research!
Emily Hilz
Graduate student
emilyhilz@yahoo.com |
903-821-7665
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: learning and memory, psychopharmacology, sex differences, appetetive conditioning/extinction
Marcela Kunkel
Graduate student
Education: B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience, St. Edward's University
Interests: Behavioral neuroscience, rat models, hormones and behavior, reward, sexual development and behavior, mate choice / preference, drugs of addiction, stimulants
Julia Martz
Graduate student
jmartz@utexas.edu |
512-471-0272 |
SEA 6.114B
Interests: Neural-endocrine regulation of motivated behaviors and associated disorders such as addiction, anxiety, and depression
Tyler Milewski
Graduate student
Education: M.S. Biochemistry, University of Scranton
Interests: Social neuroscience, neural plasticity, genes and development
Kevin Moran
Graduate student
kevin.moran@utexas.edu |
SW7 Office 201
Education: B.S. in Psychology, University of Iowa
Kaila Parker
Graduate Student
parkerk@utexas.edu |
SEA 5.226
Education: Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Concussion, Concussion Animal Modeling, Concussion and Traumatic Injury Biomarkers
Celeste Saucedo
Graduate student
Education: B.S. Psychology, University of North Texas
Interests: Transcranial infrared stimulation, cognitive enhancement in healthy and clinical populations, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease.
Krystal Schaar Valenzuela
Graduate student, Schallert Lab
Interests: Stroke, MCAo, motor function, rehabilitation, axonal sprouting, neural plasticity
Kylee Smith
Graduate student
kyleesmith@utexas.edu |
SEA 5.108
Education: B.S in Neuroscience and Psychology, Bowling Green State University
Interests: Traumatic brain injury, Long-term recovery, Fear conditioning, Learning and memory
Clinical Psychology
Scarlett Baird
Graduate student
scarlett.baird@utexas.edu |
CLA 4.600
Education: M.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: CBT, Veteran Reintegration, Determinants of Treatment Adherence, Physical Activity
Alex Birdsill
Graduate student
acbirdsill@gmail.com |
SEA 4.111D
Interests: neuropsychology, aging, neuroimaging
Emily Carl
Anxiety & Health Behaviors Lab
emilycarl@utexas.edu |
CLA 4.600
Education: M.A., Boston University
Interests: Novel treatments, anxiety treatment, GAD, exercise, eating, smoking, rumination, mindfulness, personalized medicine, ecological momentary assessment, augmentative treatment strategies
Julia Chafkin
Graduate student
Julia.Chafkin@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.412
Interests: Neuroendocrinology, Perinatal Mental Health, Postpartum Mental Health, Neonatal and Child Development, Adolescent Endocrinology
Adam Cobb
Adam R. Cobb, MA, LPC
adamrcobb@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.112e
Education: MA, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Interests: Etiology and treatment of anxiety, fear and traumatic stress-related disorders.
Darius Dawson
Graduate student
dariusblake@utexas.edu |
512-471-9116 |
SEA 2.314
Education: M.A., San Diego State University
Interests: Ethnic Differences in Substance Use Behaviors; Behavioral Change Mechanisms
Alexandra Dowd
Child Development in Context Lab
alexandradowd@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-5414 |
CLA 4.102
Christy Dutcher
Graduate student
Education: M.Ed., University of Houston
Interests: Effect of emotion dysregulation in the treatment of anxiety and substance use disorders, novel interventions for anxiety and mood disorders
Avtalya Feldman
Graduate student
talya.feldman@utexas.edu |
Seay 4.310
Education: B.S., Yale University
Dariella Fernandez
Graduate student
Education: B.A. in Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley
Interests: Aging, dementia, neuropsychology
Anna Alban Foulser
Graduate Student
afoulser@utexas.edu |
781-572-9675 |
SEA 3.112B
Education: B.S., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: PTSD, assault-related PTSD, shame, interventions
Bridget Freihart
Graduate student
bfreihart@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.318
Education: M.S.W., UC Berkeley
Interests: Sexual satisfaction in couples, physiological coregulation, psychometric development
Ariel Handy
Graduate student
arielbhandy@gmail.com |
SEA 3.318
Education: BA, University of Vermont
Interests: Brief interventions for sexual dysfunction, sexuality in special populations, sexuality across cultures
Brennan Hickson
Graduate student
bhickson@utexas.edu |
SEA 4.111
Education: B.S., Neuroscience; B.A., Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kean Hsu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mood Disorders Laboratory
keanjhsu@utexas.edu |
512-471-4825 |
RLP 4.606
Education: Ph.D., University of Southern California
Interests: The role of non-valenced (e.g., attention and executive functioning) and valenced cognitive processes (e.g., cognitive biases) in the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of adult unipolar depression and anxiety; mechanisms underlying psychotherapeutic interventions; general models of psychopathology.
Jolene Jacquart
Graduate student
jolene.jacquart@utexas.edu |
CLA 4.600
Education: M.A., The University of Texas - Austin
Interests: Health Behaviors, CBT & Exposure Therapy, Exercise, Mindfulness
Ellie Shuo Jin
Graduate Student
ellieshuojin@utexas.edu |
512-232-2215 |
SEA 3.426D
Education: B.A., McGill University
Interests: Psychoneuroendocrinology
Chelsea Kilimnik
Graduate student
chelseakilimnik@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.318
Education: M.Sc, Trent University
Interests: Sexual violence, non-consensual sexual experiences and subjective identification, sexual well-being and functioning, sexual self-schemas
James Madole
Graduate student
Education: B.A., New York University
Interests: Biological contributions to psychopathology
Travis Mallard
Graduate student
Interests: Genetics, alcohol and drug abuse, addiction, externalizing psychopathology
Ciara McAfee
Graduate student
ciara.mcafee@utexas.edu |
607-592-1391 |
SEA 3.412
Education: B.A., Goucher College
Interests: Neuroendocriniology, Performance Anxiety, Personalized Medicine, Epigenetics, Sleep & Performance, Mindfulness
Megan McMahon
Graduate student
mcmahonmc@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.312
Education: B.S., Neuroscience, College of William and Mary
Interests: fMRI, sleep, memory, cognitive aging
Mary McNamara
Graduate student
Education: B.A. Human Biology, Stanford University
Interests: depression; attention bias; translational research
Megan Micheletti
Graduate student
Education: B.S., University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: infant and toddler development, social interactions, quantitative analysis of behavior
Michael Mullarkey
Graduate student
michael.mullarkey@utexas.edu |
Seay 4.310
Interests: Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Beliefs About Emotions, Brief Interventions
Stephanie Oleson
Graduate student
stephanieoleson@utexas.edu |
SEA 4.111D
Education: MA, San Diego State University
Interests: Vascular mechanisms of cognitive decline; identifying modifiable risk factors for dementia
Santiago Papini
Graduate student
Education: MA, CUNY-City College
Interests: experimental psychopathology, latent growth mixture modeling, network analysis, machine learning
Derek Pisner
Graduate student
dpisner@utexas.edu |
703-200-8389 |
CLA 4.600
Education: B.A., The University of Virginia
Interests: Clinical Diagnostics and Treatment, Personalize Medicine, Machine Learning/ Data Mining, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, rsfMRI, BCI's, Connectomics
Leslie Rice
Graduate student
Education: B.A., Wake Forest University
Interests: Neuropsychological rehabilitation, neuropsychoendocrinology, stress-linked mental illness, first responders, CBT and functional impairment
Aditi Sabhlok
Graduate student
aditi.sabhlok@utexas.edu |
SEA 5.128
Education: B.S., Duke University
Emma Siegel
Graduate student
eysiegel@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.112B
Education: B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
Interests: PTSD, treatment outcomes, treatment enhancement, substance use
Aliza Stein
Graduate Student
atstein@utexas.edu |
CLA 4.600
Education: B.A., Boston University
Interests: Novel Interventions for Mood and Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, CBT, Expsosure Therapy
Janelle Thompson
Graduate Student
janellethompson@utexas.edu |
SEA 4.111D
Education: B.S., Trinity University
Interests: neuropsychological assessment of individuals with cognitive impairment, modifiable risk factors for dementia
Valeria Tretyak
Graduate Student
valeria.tretyak@utexas.edu |
SEA 2.302B
Education: M.Sc. Industrial/Organizational Psychology, City, University of London; M.Res. (Master of Research) Brain Sciences, University College London (UCL)
Interests: Substance use in young adults, bipolar disorder, translational research, evidence based interventions, public health
Eric Zaizar
Graduate student
Education: B.A., University of Texas
Interests: Anxiety-related disorders, clinical trials, experimental psychopathology, mechanisms of exposure therapy, safety behaviors, dissociation, cognitive enhancers, translational research.
Cognitive Neuroscience
Mary Abbe Roe
Graduate student
maroe@austin.utexas.edu |
SEA 2.204B
Education: B.S., University of Rochester
Interests: Developmental disorders, neuroimaging, brain networks, typical and atypical developmental trajectories of executive functions
Damion Demeter
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Pacific University
Interests: Neuroimaging, functional connectivity MRI, developmental trajectories of brain organization, developmental disorders
Guadalupe Gonzalez
Graduate student
lupitagon@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.312
Education: B.A., Bethel College
Interests: Racial Bias, Ethnic Bias, Cognitive Neuroscience, Attention, Memory, Social Cognition
Nicholas Griffin
Graduate student
ngriffin@utexas.edu |
SEA 2.210B
Education: B.S., Michigan State University
Interests: Memory distortion, attention bias, depression, EEG.
Seth Koslov
Graduate student
Koslov@utexas.edu |
SEA 2.218
Education: B.A., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Mechanisms of working memory and prospective memory, individual differences in learning and decision-making
Remington Mallett
Graduate student
remym@utexas.edu |
SEA 2.218
Education: B.S., Univ of Missouri - St. Louis
Interests: neural representations of working memory
Robert Molitor
Graduate student
rjmolitor@utexas.edu |
NHB 3.340
Education: B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of memory, attention, category learning
Cognitive Science
Eumie Jhong
Graduate student
ejhong@utexas.edu |
SEA 5.130
Education: B.A. Liberal Arts, The New School
Tyler Larguinho
Graduate student
tyler_larguinho@utexas.edu |
SEA 5.130
Education: B.S. Psychology, University of Rhode Island
Interests: Decision making, Similarity, Consumer choice/behavior
Developmental Psychology
Melanie Gonzalez
Graduate student
msgonzalez@utexas.edu |
SEA 1.326E
Education: B.S., M.A., Cornell University
Interests: Adolescent development; Academic motivation and engagement; Social group disparities in motivational support; Quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
Kelsey Kelley
Graduate Student, Woolley Lab
kelsey.kelley@utexas.edu |
SEA 1.316 C
Education: B.A., University of San Francisco
Interests: Supernatural explanations across development; Individual differences in belief
Haeyeon Lee
Graduate student
haeyeon.lee@utexas.edu |
SEA 1.318A
Education: B.A. in Psychology, Seoul National University
Interests: Adolescent social cognitive development; Social/academic stress and health outcomes in adolescence; Sensitivity to social status; Psychological intervention and behavioral change in adolescence
Fortunato Medrano
Graduate student
Education: B. S., Northwestern University
Interests: Social Cognitive Development; Adolescent Psychological Interventions; Scalable Interventions; Psychological Measurement
Jenny Nissel
Graduate student
jenny.nissel@utexas.edu |
1.316C
Education: B.A., Yale University
Interests: Development of imagination, fantasy-reality distinction
Mayra Chantal Ramirez
Graduate student
mayrachantal@utexas.edu |
SEA 1.318C
Education: B.A., Texas A&M University
Interests: Bilingual language processing and development, learning strategies in early bilinguals and second language learners, dual language education
Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology
Courtney Crosby
Graduate student
clcrosby@utexas.edu |
3.324B
Education: B.A. in Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Human mating, sexual arousal, sexual disgust, sexual decision-making behaviors
Patrick Durkee
Graduate Student
Education: M.A. Experimental Psychology, California State University, Fullerton
Interests: Evolutionary Psychology, Social Status, Hierarchy Negotiation, Bargaining Power
Anna Sedlacek
Graduate student
agbs@utexas.edu |
7327353911 |
SEA 3.324E
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Sexual harassment, intersexual conflict, individual differences in mating strategies
Joy Wyckoff
Graduate student
jwyckoff at utexas dot edu |
SEA 3.324
Education: BA, MA, PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, The College of William & Mary, University of Texas at Austin
Perception, Brain and Behavior
Daniel Panfili
Graduate Student
Education: B.S., Drexel University
Interests: Visual Perception, Virtual Reality, 3D Motion, Eye Tracking
Jake Whritner
Graduate student
Education: M.A., The University of Kent
Interests: Vision science, perception, motion processing, 3D motion, eye tracking, natural scene statistics, computer vision
Social and Personality Psychology
Amy Arndt
Graduate student
Interests: prosocial behavior, perspective taking, media influence and interaction
Ashwini Ashokkumar
Graduate student
ashwinia@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.426A
Interests: identity fusion, group identity, intergroup conflict, morality, online research methods
Serena Brandler
Graduate student
smbrandler@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.426A
Education: B.A., Rice University
Skylar Brannon
Graduate student
Interests: Social Cognition, Belief Updating, Cognitive Consistency, Morality, Impression Formation
Michelle Harris
Postdoctoral Fellow, Self-Regulation Lab
michelleaharris@utexas.edu |
SEAY 3.414
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Interests: self-esteem formation, development, and measurement; personality development; experimental methods
Kayla Jordan
Graduate student
kaylajordan@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.426 E
Interests: language, political psychology, morality, health, computational psychology
Lara Kroencke
Graduate student
lara.kroencke@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.426C
Education: B.Sc., University of Hamburg
Interests: personality and individual differences, well-being, ecological-momentary assessments
Zachariah Marrero
Graduate student
Zachariah.marrero@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.246C
Education: B.S. Psychology, 2017, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Interests: PERSONALITY: Structure, processes and development; The manifestation of personality in everyday life and diagnosticity; Person perception; Self-knowledge and well-being; Decision-making; Group personality composition; Latent emotional experiences on moral judgments (Moral heuristics and biases) NOVEL RESEARCH METHODS: Mobile sensing; Machine learning; Localization; Geofencing ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY: Enviornment selection and manipulation; Environmental impacts on psychology and behavior.
Anastasia Rigney
Graduate student
Interests: social cognitive neuroscience, self-perceptions, motivated biases
Sarah Seraj
Graduate student
sarahseraj@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.426C
Education: MS, Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: language, group bias, close relationships
Miti Shah
Graduate student
mitishah@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.426A
Education: M.Sc Clinical Psychology, Christ University, India
Interests: Prosocial, helping and altruistic behaviour. Influencing and increasing compliance in rule following behaviour.
Sanaz Talaifar
Graduate student
stalaifar@gmail.com |
SEA 3.426 D
Interests: identity fusion, the self, well-being, morality, political psychology, psychology of architecture
Mohini Tellakat
Graduate student
mtellakat@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.426 C
Interests: social behaviors, social perception, mental health, computational psychology, language
Postdoctoral and other Research Personnel
Katherine Blackburn
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennebaker Language Lab
k8blackburn@gmail.com |
SEA 3.424F
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: language, close relationships, technology
Ryan Boyd
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennebaker Language Lab
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: language, social processes, behavioral assessment of personality, motivational processes, mental health, computational psychology
Christine Coughlin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Preston Lab
cacoughlin@utexas.edu |
SEA 3.356
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Alejandro De La Vega
Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychoinformatics Lab
delavega@utexas.edu |
5.108C
Education: PhD, University of Colorado Boulder
Michelle Harris
Postdoctoral Fellow, Self-Regulation Lab
michelleaharris@utexas.edu |
SEAY 3.414
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Interests: self-esteem formation, development, and measurement; personality development; experimental methods
Kean Hsu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mood Disorders Laboratory
keanjhsu@utexas.edu |
512-471-4825 |
RLP 4.606
Education: Ph.D., University of Southern California
Interests: The role of non-valenced (e.g., attention and executive functioning) and valenced cognitive processes (e.g., cognitive biases) in the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of adult unipolar depression and anxiety; mechanisms underlying psychotherapeutic interventions; general models of psychopathology.
Hui Li
Postdoctoral Fellow, Imagination and Cognition Lab
huilipsy@gmail.com |
SEA 1.224E
Education: Ph. D., Central China Normal University
Interests: Media and children's cognitive development in preschool, fantasy-reality distinction and fNIRS
Emily Little
Postdoctoral Researcher, EVO Learn Lab
Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth Lorenc
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lewis-Peacock Lab
elizabethlorenc@utexas.edu |
SEA 2.218B
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Neural mechanisms of precision and distractor-resistance in visual working memory & long-term memory; fMRI neurofeedback
Margherita Malanchini
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lifespan Development Lab
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Neal Morton
Postdoctoral Fellow, Preston Lab
neal.morton@austin.utexas.edu |
3.356
Education: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Interests: Episodic memory; fMRI; ECoG; EEG; tDCS; computational modeling
Sarah Pope
Postdoctoral Researcher, EVO Learn Lab
Education: Ph.D., Georgia State University (Neuroscience), Ph.D., Aix-Marseille University (Psychology)
Bruce Rawlings
Postdoctoral Researcher, EVO Learn Lab
bruce.rawlings@utexas.edu |
SEA 1.136C
Education: Ph.D., Durham University
Christopher Robison
Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroendocrinology and Motivation Lab
robison@utexas.edu |
6.114
Education: Ph.D., Florida State University
Interests: Neuroendocrine regulation of motivated behavior, Biological factors underlying individual differences, Gasotransmission
Katherine Sherrill
Postdoctoral Fellow, Preston Lab
Education: Ph.D., Boston University
Interests: Spatial cognition, navigation, episodic memory, fMRI, ECoG
