ALEMU, KALE
Advisor: Mara Mather
Research Interests: Association between heart rate variability & emotion regulation/well-being, interventions focused on increasing parasympathetic activity to strengthen regulatory control of brain regions involved in emotion, multimodal neuroimaging techniques

AVIV, LIZZIE
Advisor: Darby Saxbe
Research Interests: Dyadic functioning over the transition to parenthood; romantic relationships between co-parents; community-based and participatory couples/family interventions

BEALE, LEXY
Advisors: Gayla Margolin & Amy West
Research Interests: Peer relationships; internalizing disorders, adolescent social media use, social maladjustment

BERNSTEIN, RACHEL
Advisor: Iony Ezawa
Research Interests: Cognitive behavioral therapy, therapy process, treatment personalization, digital intervention delivery

BRODELL, REGINA
Advisor: Stan Huey
Research Interests: Identity formation among adopted youth; gang intervention; identity-based determinants of gang involvement; intergenerational transmission of traumatic stress & family-based interventions

CARDENAS, SOFIA
Advisor: Darby Saxbe
Research Interests: Neuroimaging, parenting behavior, biopsychosocial models of family well-being and health

DAO, ANH
Advisor: Iony Ezawa
Research Interests: Multi-method predictors of depression treatment response to individualize treatment selection, effects of client-therapist variables on responses to interventions.

DEWS, ARIDENNE
Advisors: Amy West & Darby Saxbe
Research Interests: Digital intervention delivery; psychosocial interventions treatment accessibility for at-risk youth; internalizing disorders; emotional awareness and emotional development

EWUSI BOISVERT, ESTHELLE
Advisors: Matthew Kirkpatrick & Gerald Davison
Research Interests: Racism, well-meaning white people, drug policies

FENTON, LAURA
Advisors: Duke Han, Bruna Martins-Klein
Research Interests: Healthy aging and neurodegenerative disease; early signs of cognitive decline; modifiable risk factors for dementia; multimodal imaging techniques

FRITZ, HANNAH
Advisors: Sonya Negriff & Gayla Margolin
Research Interests: Intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment; developmental psychopathology; adult psychosocial outcomes associated with childhood maltreatment; impacts of post-traumatic stress on family systems, children, adults, and couples

GANAPATHI, AARTHI
Advisor: Bruna Martins-Klein
Research Interests: Cognition-emotion interactions during emotion regulation, resilience and coping within caregiver-care recipient dyads, functional cortical mapping (EEG), and disparities in aging and mental health

GONNENNE, MOLLY
Advisor: Chris Beam
Research Interests: Social and romantic dyadic relationships; lifespan biopsychosocial factors of cognitive aging; stress; loneliness; grief and bereavement

GONZALES, CASSIE
Advisors: Jonathan Tarbox & Gayla Margolin
Research Interests: Autism spectrum and related disorders assessment treatment; dissemination of services across diverse and underserved populations

KAM, ALYSSA
Advisor: Chris Beam
Research Interests:

KIM, ALICE
Advisor: Chris Beam
Research Interests: Life-course psychosocial factors and ADRD risk; aging; caregiver health and relationships; grief and bereavement; health disparities

LADOPOULOU, JOANNA
Advisor: Bruna Martins-Klein
Research Interests: Emotion regulation; cognitive control; psychological resilience across the lifespan; metacognition; individual differences; social & affective neuroscience; translational neuroscience

LEON, GABRIEL
Advisor: Darby Saxbe
Research Interests: Family dynamics; stress; personalized interventions for diverse couples, families, and children; parental mental health and resilience

LI, JIANI
Advisor: Jon Stange
Research Interests: Within-subject and between-subject differences in emotion regulation; multimodal assessments of emotions (e.g., neuroimaging, psychophysiology, behavior); vulnerability factors for mood disorders; naturalistic measurements

LINDQUIST, EMMA
Advisors: Amy West & Gayla Margolin
Research Interests: Non-suicidal self-injury, suicide, social media, harm reduction, intervention development and dissemination

LYNCH, MORGAN
Advisor: Chris Beam
Research Interests: Dementia; epigenetics, psychosocial and modifiable dementia risk factors; behavioral genetics; neuroimaging biomarkers

MARSHALL, ANISA
Advisors: Dan Nation & Chris Beam
Research Interests: Cognitive resilience and cerebrovascular health in aging; preclinical biomarkers; microstructural neuroimaging; health disparities

MATEO SANTANA, ADRELYS
Advisor: Stan Huey & Sonya Negriff
Research Interests: Consequences of early adverse experiences on youths’ development and wellbeing; systemic inequities; and community-based protective factors

MINNS, SEAN
Advisor: Bruna Martins-Klein
Research Interests:
MOLINAIRE, CASSIDY
Advisors: Han
Research Interests: Aging; early detection of Alzheimer’s disease; predictors and markers of cognitive decline; advancing cognitive assessment methods/tools; health disparities in cognitive functioning

MONACHINO, ALEXA
Advisors: Santiago Morales
Research Interests: Developmental psychopathology; socioemotional development; affective neuroscience; neurobiological and environmental mechanisms of risk and resilience; trauma and early adversity

NEWSOME, PHIL
Advisor: Darby Saxbe
Research Interests: the biology of stress and motivation; bidirectional parent-child influences on social-affective development; clinical perspectives

NORIEGA, DAISY
Advisors: Duke Han
Research Interests: Biopsychosocial risk factors of Alzheimer’s Disease/dementia; health disparities in cognition; culturally and linguistically appropriate neuropsychological assessment; neuroimaging biomarkers

PILGRIM, MATT
Advisor: Chris Beam
Research Interests: Modifiable risk factors of Parkinson’s disease and ADRD; healthy aging, cognitive decline, cognition in neurodegenerative diseases

REYES, YAZLEEN
Advisor: Iony Ezawa
Research Interests: Access to mental health services; marginalized populations; digital mental health interventions; cognitive behavioral therapy; factors of therapeutic change; culturally responsive interventions and treatments

SALDICH, EMILY
Advisors: Susan Luczak & Chris Beam
Research Interests: Etiology and maintenance of alcohol and other substance use; prevention and intervention strategies for reducing alcohol-related harm

SATINSKY, EMILY
Advisors: Chardée Galán & Stan Huey
Research Interests: Global mental health; health disparities; childhood adversity; substance use; depression; HIV; peer support; social norms

TURESON, KAYLA
Advisors: John Ringman & Chris Beam
Research Interests: Social determinants of health and cognitive aging health disparities in Latinx/e populations, genetic and environmental risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AdRD), autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease, and cross-cultural neuropsychology
TURNAMIAN, MARGARID
Advisor: Jon Stange
Research Interests: Understanding how emotional dysregulation may lead to more persistent depression by evaluating the relationship between daily fluctuations in depressive symptoms, physiological arousal and emotional regulation processes.

WAIZMAN, YAEL
Advisor: Darby Saxbe
Research Interests: Impacts of early life adversity and stress on brain and socioemotional development; risk and resilience factors; child and parental psychopathology

WALDEN, KYLA-ROSE
Advisors: Susan Luczak & Gerald Davison
Research Interests: Etiology and maintenance of alcohol use problems in minority populations (e.g., ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+); identity-related stress and alcohol use; real-time assessment methods for alcohol research

WOODWARD, DIANA
Advisors: Amy West & Gayla Margolin
Research Interests: Dissemination and implementation science; mental health treatment delivery innovation; clinical decision making; clinician training and engagement; strategies for improving treatment engagement and adherence for at-risk youth; community mental health settings

XU, ELLIE
Advisor: Jon Stange
Research Interests: Emotion regulation flexibility; risk and resilience for depression and suicide; integration of neuroimaging and ecological momentary assessment approaches

ZAPETIS, SARAH
Advisor: Jon Stange
Research Interests: Cognitive flexibility; affect regulation; mood disorders; ambulatory assessment techniques; neuroimaging; autonomic psychophysiology

ZHOU, ELAYNE
Advisor: Stan Huey & Jessie Borelli
Research Interests: Community-based participatory research, health disparities, historically underserved youth and families, culturally responsive and strengths based interventions, health services and treatment access, social determinants of mental health
