Research & Faculty
Are you interested in a position as a research assistant? Here's a list of labs within our department, as well as a few at Dell Medical School. If you find labs whose research interests you, email the contact person for the lab let them know. A brief email to introduce yourself and express your interest is sufficient. Different labs have openings at different times, so you may have to contact several labs that interest you before you hear back.
Not sure where to start? Explore our Undergraduate and Graduate programs to learn more about the exciting opportunities we offer. You can also explore our Areas of Study to discover the wide variety of innovative research conducted by our faculty and research teams.
Interested in getting involved in research? Browse the list of recruiting faculty and labs below, and for the most up-to-date information, visit individual faculty profiles, as details may change over time.
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Faculty Research Labs
- Jennifer Beer, PhD, Self Regulation Lab: Emotion, Cognition and the Brain
- Christopher Beevers, Ph.D., Mood Disorders Laboratory| Institute for Mental Health Research
- David Buss, Ph.D., Buss Lab
- Caryn Carlson, Ph.D.
- Frances Champagne, Ph.D., Epigenetics, Development and Neuroscience Lab
- Jessica Church-Lang, Ph.D., Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
- Alexandra Clark, Ph.D., Mechanisms Underlying Neurocognitive Aging Lab
- Lawrence Cormack, Ph.D., Center for Perceptual Systems
- James Curley, Ph.D., Curley Lab
- Kaya de Barbaro, Ph. D., Daily Activity Lab
- Yvon Delville, Ph.D., Delville Lab
- Juan Dominguez, Ph.D., Neuroendocrinology and Motivation Lab
- Audrey Duarte, Ph.D., Memory and Aging Lab
- Catharine Echols, Ph.D., Language Development Lab| Children's Research Center
- Kim Fromme, Ph.D., SAHARA Lab
- Andrew Gaudet, Ph.D., Gaudet Lab
- Bertram Gawronski, Ph.D Social Cognition Lab
- Wilson Geisler, Ph.D., Center for Perceptual Systems| Space Variant Imaging | Natural Scene Statistics
- David Gilden, Ph.D., Gilden Lab
- Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Ph.D., F. Gonzalez-Lima Lab
- Robbe Goris, Ph.D., Goris Lab
- Samuel Gosling, Ph.D., Animal Personality Institute
- Zenzi Griffin, Ph.D., The Cognition and Communication Lab
- Andreana Haley, Ph.D., Clinical Neuroscience Lab
- Kathyrn Paige Harden, Ph.D., Developmental Behavior Genetics Lab| The University of Texas Twin Registry
- Mary Hayhoe, Ph.D., Center for Perceptual Systems
- Marlone Henderson, Ph.D.
- Charles Holahan, Ph.D.
- Lori Holt, Ph.D. Center for Perceptual Systems | Holt Lab
- Theresa Jones, Ph.D., Jones Lab
- Robert Josephs, Ph.D., Social Endocrinology Lab
- Cristine Legare, Ph.D., Evolution & Ontogeny of Cognition & Culture Laboratory| Children's Research Center
- Hongjoo (Joanne) Lee, Ph.D., Lee Lab
- Marc Lewis, Ph.D.
- Jarrod Lewis-Peacock, PhD, Lewis-Peacock Lab
- Arthur Markman, Ph.D., Similarity and Cognition Lab
- Cindy Meston, Ph.D., The Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory
- Marie Monfils, Ph.D., Monfils Lab
- Desmond Ong, Ph.D.
- Linda Noble, Ph.D., Dell Medical Noble-Haeusslein Lab
- Caitlin Orsini, Ph.D., Orsini Lab
- James Pennebaker, Ph.D., Pennebaker Language Lab
- Franco Pestilli, Ph.D., Pestilli Lab
- Alison Preston, Ph.D., Preston Memory Lab | Center for Learning and Memory
- David Schnyer, Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
- Eyal Seidemann, Ph.D., Center for Perceptual Systems
- Jasper Smits, Ph. D., Anxiety & Health Behaviors Lab
- William Swann, Ph.D., Groups and Interpersonal Processes Lab
- Michael Telch, Ph.D., Laboratory for the Study of Anxiety Disorders
- Katharine Tillman, Ph.D., Austin Thought Lab
- Adela Timmons, Ph.D., TIES Lab
- Elliot Tucker-Drob, Ph.D., Lifespan Development Lab| The University of Texas Twin Registry
- Jacqueline Woolley, Ph.D., Imagination and Cognition Lab| Children's Research Center
- David Yeager, Ph.D., Texas Behavioral Science & Policy Institute| Children's Research Center
- Chen Yu, Ph.D., Developmental Intelligence Lab
Affiliated & Research Faculty
- Robert Buchanan, Ph.D., Human Brain Stimulation and Electrophysiology Lab
- Joseph Dunsmoor, Ph.D., Dunsmoor Lab for Learning, Memory, and Emotion
- Andrea Gore, Ph.D., Gore Lab
- Alissa Mrazek, Ph.D., Applied Psychology Lab
- Zoltan Nadasdy, Ph.D., Human Brain Stimulation and Electrophysiology Lab
- Rebecca Neal-Beevers, Ph.D., The Child Development in Context Laboratory| Institute for Mental Health Research
Affiliated Research Units
- Animal Resources Center
- Biomedical Imaging Center
- Center for Perceptual Systems
- Center for Learning and Memory
- IGERT (Indoor Environmental Science & Engineering) Graduate Program
- Institute for Mental Health Research
- Institute for Neuroscience
- Women's Studies
- Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience