Graduate Students

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

Advisor: Darby Saxbe

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

Advisors: Gayla Margolin & Amy West

Research Interests: Peer relationships; internalizing disorders, adolescent social media use, social maladjustment

Advisor: Iony Ezawa

Research Interests: Cognitive behavioral therapy, therapy process, treatment personalization, digital intervention delivery

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

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

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

Advisor: Iony Ezawa

Research Interests: Cognitive behavioral therapy, treatment accessibility, digital mental health interventions, public attitudes about treatment

Advisors: Katharina Kircanski & Darby Saxbe

Research Interests: The development and treatment of anxiety, depression, and irritability in adolescents, along with the influence of parenting on these processes

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

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

Advisor: Chris Beam

Research Interests: Social and romantic dyadic relationships; lifespan biopsychosocial factors of cognitive aging; stress; loneliness; grief and bereavement

Advisors: Jonathan Tarbox & Gayla Margolin

Research Interests: Autism spectrum and related disorders assessment treatment; dissemination of services across diverse and underserved populations

Advisor: Jon Stange

Research Interests: Longitudinal neural functional connectivity underlying cognitive–emotional functions as predictors of depression and self-harm onset and course; multimodal predictive modeling of depression using fMRI, EMA, behavioral tasks, and computational methods; within- and between-subject variability in depression, with a focus on cognition–emotion regulation dynamics

Advisor: Chris Beam

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Advisors: Duke Han & Jonas Kaplan 

Research Interests: Emotion regulation; cognitive control; psychological resilience across the lifespan; metacognition; individual differences; social & affective neuroscience; translational neuroscience

Advisor: Duke Han

Research Interests: Neuroimaging biomarkers of neurodegenerative disease; early modifiable risk factors for aging and cognitive decline; neuropsychological assessment

Advisor: Darby Saxbe

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

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

Advisors: Amy West & Gayla Margolin

Research Interests: Non-suicidal self-injury, suicide, social media, harm reduction, intervention development and dissemination

Advisor: Chris Beam

Research Interests: Dementia; epigenetics, psychosocial and modifiable dementia risk factors; behavioral genetics; neuroimaging biomarkers

Advisor: Emilio Valadez

Research Interests: Early life factors such as early adversity, adolescent brain development, adolescent internalizing symptoms

Advisors: Dan Nation & Chris Beam

Research Interests: Cognitive resilience and cerebrovascular health in aging; preclinical biomarkers; microstructural neuroimaging; health disparities

Advisor: Stan Huey & Sonya Negriff

Research Interests: Consequences of early adverse experiences on youths’ development and wellbeing; systemic inequities; and community-based protective factors

Advisor: Jon Stange

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Advisors: Duke 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

Advisors: Santiago Morales

Research Interests: Developmental psychopathology; socioemotional development; affective neuroscience; neurobiological and environmental mechanisms of risk and resilience; trauma and early adversity

Advisor: Darby Saxbe

Research Interests: the biology of stress and motivation; bidirectional parent-child influences on social-affective development; clinical perspectives

Advisor: Duke Han

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

Advisor: Duke Han

Research Interests: Cognitive aging and neuropsychology; early markers of Alzheimer’s disease; financial decision-making in older adults; sociocultural and psychological risk factors for dementia; multimodal imaging techniques; lifespan approaches to brain health

Advisor: Chris Beam

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

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

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

Advisors: Chardée Galán & Stan Huey

Research Interests: Global mental health; health disparities; childhood adversity; substance use; depression; HIV; peer support; social norms

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.

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

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

Advisor: Jon Stange

Research Interests: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of decision-making and emotion regulation; internalizing disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety); motivation and reward processing; aging; ecological momentary assessment (EMA); fMRI

Advisor: Stan Huey

Research Interests: Community-based participatory research and interventions, cultural tailoring, adolescent identity formation, intergenerational transmission of traumatic stress/memories, global mental health, systemic inequities

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

Advisor: Jon Stange

Research Interests: Emotion regulation flexibility; risk and resilience for depression and suicide; integration of neuroimaging and ecological momentary assessment approaches

Advisor: Jon Stange

Research Interests: Cognitive flexibility; affect regulation; mood disorders; ambulatory assessment techniques; neuroimaging; autonomic psychophysiology

Advisors: 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