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| Photo | Name | Title | Department | Courses | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Bethlehem Abebe | Graduate Student UConn Health | Structural Biology | Molecular Biology | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry |
 | Sarah Ahmadi | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Stress and trauma, coping, and mind-body interventions. | |
 | Sheila Alessi | Faculty, UConn Health | Clinical Psychology | Behavioral science; mHealth and digital therapeutics technologies; biosensors | |
 | Shabnam Alizadeh Incheh | Graduate Student UConn | Speech and Hearing Sciences | Cognitive Science, Linguistics | Bilingualism; psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics; sentence processing; speech perception and production |
 | Laila Almotwaly | Graduate Student, UConn | Behavioral Neuroscience | Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science | Auditory attention; neural oscillations; how neurodivergent learners engage with dynamic learning environments |
 | Gerry Altmann | Faculty UConn | Cognitive Science | Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology | Psycholinguistics and language comprehension; event cognition; computational modeling; AI; visual attention |
 | Kate Ascetta | Faculty UConn Health UCEDD | Early Childhood and Special Education | Training and teacher preparation related to early childhood special education; working with families; supporting school leaders; social-emotional development of young children. | |
 | Robert Astur | Faculty, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Developmental Psychology | Addiction; anxiety disorders; human spatial memory and the hippocampus; virtual reality; cue reactivity (food, nicotine, alcohol, cannabis); problem gambling; cognition in schizophrenia and PTSD |
 | Marianne Barton | Faculty UConn | Clinical Psychology | Developmental Psychology | Early intervention; early parent–child relationships; early detection of autism in toddlers; developmental trajectories in autism; early childhood mental health |
 | Caitlin Baten | Graduate Student UConn | Cognitive Neuroscience | Developmental Psychology | Attention; depression and anxiety; neurodevelopment |
| Bob Bayo | Graduate Student Ohio University | Social Psychology | Judgement and decision-making | ||
 | Arinjoy Bhattacharjee | Graduate Student UConn | Speech and Hearing Sciences | Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science | Language disorders; statistical learning; linguistic complexity; auditory word learning |
 | Jaime Elizabeth Blackmon | Clinical Psychologist Uconn U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | Clinical Psychology | Empirically based treatments for anxiety and trauma; validation | |
 | Felicia Blodgett-Duran | Graduate Student Uconn | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Workplace culture and experience; workplace discrimination | |
 | Cynthia Boo | Graduate Student UConn | Developmental Psychology | Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Social Psychology | Role of language on children's social development, social cognition, and concept development. |
 | Franklin Bray | Graduate Student UConn | Cognitive Psychology | Cognitive Neuroscience | Psycholinguistics; eye movements; semantic memory; embodied cognition; event cognition; language comprehension |
 | Alaina Brenick | Faculty UConn | Developmental Psychology | Social Psychology, Human Development and Family Sciences | Discrimination; intergroup relations; social justice; marginalized populations |
 | Nicole Burns | Staff, UConn and Central Connecticut State University | Counseling- Student Development in Higher Education | Counseling- Student Development in Higher Education | |
 | Antonia Caba | Staff UConn | Developmental Psychology | LGBTQ+ mental health and identity development; social work research and evaluation of state child care initiatives | |
 | Jackie Caemmerer | Faculty UConn | Educational Psychology | Psychological assessment; children’s cognitive abilities, academic achievement and social skills | |
 | Rebecca Canale Bell | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience | Autism spectrum disorder; developmental mechanisms of attention and learning; neural mechanisms of statistical and language learning |
 | Silvia Clement-Lam | Faculty, UConn | Cognitive Neuroscience | Cognitive Psychology; Developmental Psychology | Reading development and reading disorders; early language and reading acquisition |
 | Abi Click | Graduate Student UConn | Social Psychology | Perceptions of gender and sexual minorities; LGBTQ+ identity denial; essentialism and social constructionism; homophobia/heteronormativity; intersectional prejudice; ableism and disability justice | |
 | Marie Coppola | Faculty Uconn | Developmental Psychology | Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology | Sign languages and homesign; emergence of language; language development in deaf children; language and number cognition |
 | Nicole Cruse | Faculty Sacred Heart University | Speech and Hearing Sciences | Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science | Traumatic brain injury; aphasia; cognition and executive dysfunction; serious games |
 | Kimberly Cuevas | Faculty, UConn | Developmental Psychology | Infancy, memory, learning, executive functions, EEG | |
 (opens in new window) | Shawn Cummings (opens in new window) | Postdoc Department of Language Science, University of California, Irvine | Speech and Hearing Sciences | Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Linguistics | Psycholinguistics; spoken word recognition; perceptual adaptation |
| (opens in new window) | Sophia Dominguez Perez (opens in new window) | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Social Psychology | Sociocultural diversity; PTSD; OCD; anxiety; compassionate care |
 | Mariel Emrich | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | PTSD, trauma, stress and coping, health psychology (e.g., pain management, sleep) | |
 | Jessica Flori | Postdoc Uconn Health | Clinical Psychology | Cognitive Psychology | Behavioral interventions; substance use prevention and treatment; psychosocial mechanisms of change |
 | Stephen Florian | Faculty, UConn | Business Writing and Communication | Academic probation and retention/persistence of first-year composition students; supporting neurodivergent students in the classroom | |
 | Jessica Foy | Graduate Student UConn | Clinical Psychology | Childhood disruptive behavior, peer relationships, prosocial behavior. | |
 | Adrian Garcia-Sierra | Faculty UConn | Speech and Hearing Sciences | Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology | Speech perception and language development from infancy to adulthood in bilingual and monolingual people; grammar processing; EEG |
 (opens in new window) | Alexandra Garr-Schultz (opens in new window) | Faculty Uconn | Social Psychology | Educational Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Self and identity; social identity and marginalization; groups; diversity and inclusion; women in STEM; LGBTQIA+ research; race; relationships |
 | Kamal Gautam | Graduate Student UConn | Behavioral Health | Social Psychology, HIV, Marginalized Population | Mental health and suicide prevention among sexual and gender minorities; ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of mood, behavior and suicidal ideation; just-in-time adaptive interventions; structural stigma, substance use and healthcare access in low-resource settings |
 | Meara Geraty | Graduate Student, UConn | Cognitive Science | Interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research, cognitive science of religion, psychology of religion, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, ecological psychology | |
 | Aida Ghiaei | Staff UConn | Engineering | Cell Biology | Genetics (sarcoidosis, COPD, cystic fibrosis); cell biology; supporting students interested in STEM PhDs (Program Administrator, Husky STEM Bridge to the Doctorate Program) |
 | Lily Gorman | Graduate Student UConn | Human Development and Family Sciences | Social Psychology | Adulthood, aging and gerontology; Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias; family caregiving; death, dying and bereavement |
 | Frank Griggs | Faculty UConn | Political Science | Politics: Natural Environment, Maritime, Violence | Politics of the natural environment; maritime politics; violence |
 | Marcus Harris | Graduate Student, UConn | Educational Psychology | Reproducibility, Statistics, Research Methods/Design, Measurement, Latent Variable Modeling, Evaluation. | |
 | Amanda Hiner | Graduate Student Uconn | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Occupational health; employee well-being; women in the workplace; autism in the workplace; total worker health; diversity in the workplace | |
 | Yu-Ching Huang | Graduate Student Dartmouth College | Cognitive Neuroscience | Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience | Decision-making; reinforcement learning; computational neuroscience |
 | Rachna Iyer | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Mental health in underserved populations, women's health. | |
 | Sara Johnson | Graduate Student Uconn | Clinical Psychology | Developmental Psychology | Childhood anxiety disorders; cognitive mechanisms of anxiety; how parent–child interactions influence the onset of anxiety |
| Harmandeep Kaur | Graduate Student, Columbia Unversity | Computer Science | Machine Learning, Quantum Science | Climate-focused machine learning (time-series forecasting, deep learning for environmental data); quantum computing and hybrid quantum–classical algorithms | |
 | Arielle Keller | Faculty UConn | Cognitive Neuroscience | Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology | |
 | Sydney Klein | Graduate Student, UConn | Developmental Psychology | Human Development and Family Sciences, Social Psychology | Prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping; anti-racism; social media contexts; identity development; racial socialization |
 | Kristen Kling | Faculty, UConn | Developmental Psychology | Gender differences in developmental psychology | |
 | Justin Laplante | Faculty UConn | Developmental Psychology | Cultural Psychology | Mindfulness, meditation and spirituality; aging and adult development; interpersonal relationships; cultural psychology |
 | Nathan Lautz | Graduate Student, UConn | Cognitive Psychology | The conceptual system; semantic memory; embodied cognition; grounded cognition; cognitive neuroscience of semantic memory; philosophy of cognitive science | |
 | Hyosun Lee | Graduate Student UConn | Cognitive Psychology | Psycholinguistics; sentence processing; cognitive modeling | |
 | Martin Lee | Graduate Student, George Washington University | Clinical Psychology | Psychotherapy, therapeutic alliance, attachment | |
 (opens in new window) | Kaya LeGrand (opens in new window) | Graduate Student, UConn | Developmental Psychology | Speech and Hearing Sciences | Language development; autism; word learning |
 | Wesley Leong | Graduate Student, UConn | Cognitive Science | ||
 | Daniela Lilly Rodiles | Graduate Student UConn | History | American Studies, English | American History, American Literature, and American Studies. |
 | Alexandra Lopez Hernandez | Graduate Student University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | Clinical Psychology | Neurodevelopmental disorders associated with rare genetic conditions (e.g., Williams syndrome); culturally responsive, accessible interventions for children and families from underrepresented communities, especially Spanish-speaking families | |
 (opens in new window) | Kelly Mahaffy (opens in new window) | Graduate Student, UConn | Cognitive Neuroscience | Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology | Neurobiology of reading and reading comprehension; reading development; language processing |
 | Etan Markus | Faculty, UConn | Behavioral Neuroscience | Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science | Brain basis of behavior in rats; how memories form; effects of aging on memory; hippocampus; spatial navigation; social interaction |
 | Kerry Marsh | Faculty, UConn Hartford | Social Psychology | Ecological and dynamical approaches to environmental psychology; Immersive virtual reality methods (applications to interpersonal and environmental risk); Motivational influences on persuasion, social cognition, and behavior; Implicit attitudes and HIV risk behavior; Social affordances and interpersonal coordination of movement | |
 (opens in new window) | Ruth Mcleod (opens in new window) | Faculty, Kutztown University | Behavioral Neuroscience | Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Speech and Hearing Sciences | Neurodevelopment; brain injury and recovery; behavioral neuroscience |
 | Katherine McManus-Shipp | Graduate Student UConn | Clinical Psychology | Eating and weight management, health psychology, adolescent and pediatrics | |
 | Jonas Miller | Faculty UConn | Developmental Psychology | Adversity, resilience, developmental neuroscience, empathy. | |
 | Amanda Montanari | Graduate Student UConn | Clinical Psychology | Health psychology; weight management; health behavior change | |
 (opens in new window) | Jennifer Mozeiko (opens in new window) | Faculty, UConn | Speech and Hearing Sciences | Aphasia treatment; adult neurogenic communication disorders; environmental enrichment; neuroimaging of rehabilitation; single-subject design | |
| Zoe Nelson | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Eating disorders, psycho-oncology (intersection of mental health and cancer), OCD, perinatal mental health, behavioral medicine, health equity, severe mental illness | ||
 | Giang Hong Nguyen | Graduate Student, UConn | Human Development and Family Sciences | Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology | Bilingual and multilingual experience; Asian populations; cultural differences; parenting; child development |
 | Hannah O'Connor | Graduate Student UConn | Clinical Psychology | Cognitive Science, Linguistics | Autism spectrum disorder, linguistics, social communication, gesture. |
| Tochukwu Okolie | Graduate Student, UConn | Aging and Gerontology | Aging among underserved populations. Health issues (Substance use disorders, HIV) among older adults. | ||
| M.Samil Onder | Graduate Student, Istanbul Barosu | Educational Psychology | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Nano-manufacturing, cleanroom fabrication and semiconductor devices; law and regulation (attorney, Istanbul Bar Association); consumer behavior, strategic marketing and communication | |
 | Erika Osherow | Graduate Student UConn | Clinical Psychology | Clinical Psychology | Stress and resilience; behavior change; holistic health and performance; trauma-informed mindfulness interventions |
 | Darlis Pantoja-Benavides | Graduate Student UConn | Human Development and Family Science | Developmental Psychology, Ecological Psychology, Social Psychology | Identity development, parental socialization, parental ethnotheories on child/youth development, impacts of culture, and cultural adaptations of interventions. Current areas of interest include multicultural/mixed-race identity development, cultural and social identity development, ethnic-racial socialization and identity, how parental ethnotheories can inform adaptations in parent-child interventions, and impacts of cultural diversity on social identity. |
 | Katie Parker | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Developmental Psychology | Child psychology; childhood externalizing behaviors; the intersection of clinical and developmental psychology |
 | Alexandra Paxton | Faculty, UConn | Ecological Psychology | Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology | Interpersonal communication and social interaction; data science with naturally occurring data; data ethics; nonlinear dynamics |
 | Yanina Prystauka | Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Bergen | Cognitive Neuroscience | Linguistics | Psycholinguistics; bilingualism; language and aging |
 | Nairan Ramirez-Esparza | Faculty, UConn | Social Psychology | Natural language processing; bilingualism; cognition; development; culture, language and behavior | |
 | Carla Rash | Faculty, UConn Health | Clinical Psychology | eHealth/mobile treatment options; health disparities; addiction treatment; responsible gaming | |
 | Madeline Resnick | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Neuropsychological assessment and interventions for traumatic brain injury, memory, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders; multimodal neuroimaging. | |
| Juergen Riedelsheimer | Graduate Student Idaho State University | Cognitive Neuroscience | Behavioral Neuroscience | How people adjust attention and actions in the face of conflicting or ambiguous information; cognitive control and prediction; music and prediction; EEG, fNIRS and brain stimulation | |
 (opens in new window) | Heather Robinson (opens in new window) | Graduate Student, UConn | Cognitive Neuroscience | Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science | Emotion and cognition; attention; executive function; internalizing symptoms; mood and anxiety disorders |
 | Martina Rosenberg | Educational Developer (former neuroscientist), UConn | Behavioral Neuroscience | Previously: fetal alcohol–induced learning challenges; now an educational developer focused on andragogy (adult learning) | |
 | Aleksandra Rusowicz | Graduate Student UConn | Social Psychology | Stigma and health outcomes; social determinants of mental health; political psychology; prejudice | |
 | Sarah Schillinger | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Linguistics | Social language in autism; sex differences in language in autism |
 | Deborah Schneider | Postdoc, UConn | Educational Psychology | Neuroscience | Neural and behavioral correlates of reading and executive function; diagnosis and remediation of reading-related learning disorders |
 | Sam Schram | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Eating disorders; chronic illness; weight stigma; body image | |
 | Caitlin Senni | Graduate Student UConn | Cognitive Science | Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology | Psycholinguistics—Theory of Mind, language and thought, abstraction and generalization, abstract concepts. |
 | Betsy Serrano | Graduate Student University of Denver | Clinical Psychology | Trauma, gender-based violence, cultural psychology, Mexican/Latine/Indigenous communities | |
 | William Snyder | Faculty, UConn | Linguistics | Language Acquisition, Comparative Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface | |
 | Lorena Solis | Faculty, UConn Hartford | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Diversity, equity and inclusion at work; how inequality affects hiring, retention and career advancement of historically marginalized groups | |
 | Gabriela Soriano | Graduate Student, UConn Health | Molecular Biology | How mRNAs are translated into proteins; tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases; how disrupted protein synthesis contributes to disease | |
 | Umay Suanda | Faculty, UConn | Developmental Psychology | Language development and learning, word learning/vocabulary acquisition, conceptual development. | |
 | Breeya Tailor-Sagan | Graduate Student, UConn Health | Cognitive Neuroscience | Cell Biology, Genetics | |
 | Edwin Trejo-Rivera | Graduate Student, UConn | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Workplace stressors; workplace personal resources | |
 | Ying Tu | Postdoc, UConn | Geography | GIS and spatial data science; human–environment interactions; climate adaptation; infrastructure access; climate change and human health | |
 (opens in new window) | Paola Vera-Licona (opens in new window) | Faculty | Center for Quantitative Medicine, UConn Health | Our research group works on a variety of problems within the fields of computational systems medicine, computational systems biology, mathematical biology and bioinformatics. We focus on the design and application of mathematical algorithms for the modeling, simulation and control of biological networks such as gene regulatory networks, intracellular signaling networks and functional brain networks. | |
 | Aria Wiseblatt | Postdoc, UConn Health | Clinical Psychology | Social Psychology | Alcohol and substance use; trauma and sexual assault; bystander intervention |
 | Torri Ann Woodruff-Gautherin | Faculty, UConn | Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | The mechanisms of support for families of children who are deaf and hard of hearing. | |
 | Qi Wu | Graduate Student, UConn | Linguistics | Theoretical linguistics; literature; classics | |
 | Mariah Xu | Graduate Student, UConn | Clinical Psychology | Intergenerational transmission of psychopathology and trauma; interpersonal violence | |
 | Eiling Yee | Faculty UConn | Cognitive Science | Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology | Semantic memory and concepts; how sensorimotor experience shapes conceptual knowledge; language processing; cognitive neuroscience of language and memory |
 | Holly Zaharchuk | Post Doctoral Fellow UConn | Cognitive Psychology | Linguistics, Speech and Hearing Sciences | Psycholinguistics, linguistic variation (dialect/accent), bilingualism. |
 | Finian Zakas | Graduate Student, UConn | Behavioral Neuroscience | Addiction; risky decision-making; novel treatments for anxiety and addiction disorders; classical and operant conditioning | |
 | Mei Zheng | Graduate Student, UConn | Educational Psychology | Cognitive Psychology | Creativity; motivation; meaning |
 | Xinming Zhou | Graduate Student, University of Texas at Austin | Speech and Hearing Sciences | Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology | Cognitive and neural basis of speech perception; perception of accented speech; speech in noise; hearing loss and auditory rehabilitation |