Graduate Students
| Saman Abbaspoor | Faculty Advisor: Kari Hoffman Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience | ||
 | Laura Hieber Adery Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-5522 311 WH |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science My research focuses on social isolation and loneliness, potential linkages to perceptual and functional deficits, and holistic intervention efforts in individuals within the schizophrenia spectrum |
 | Kianoush Banaie Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Anita Disney Neuroscience | |
 | Brian Bernstein Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615)-343-4564 |
Faculty Advisor: David Lubinski Quantitative Methods talent development, STEM innovation, profound giftedness, eminence |
 | Alexandra Bettis Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 311 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Understanding and developing interventions for youths at risk for anxiety and depression; the role of stress, coping, and executive function in interventions for these populations. |
 | Pietra Taylor Bruni Graduate Student | Email Website 309 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jo-Anne Bachorowski Clinical Science |
 | Michael Budianto | Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience | |
 | Francisco Calvache Meyer Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Zald Clinical Science | |
 | Ting-Yun Chang Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Jason Chow | Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience | |
| Emily B. Conder Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 201 |
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Lane Developmental Science I am currently interested in 1) How others' testimony influences children’s attitudes toward novel social groups, and 2) The influence of knowledge about extenuating circumstances on subsequent judgments of a violator’s guilt. | |
| Benjamin Conrad Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Gavin Price Neuroscience | ||
 | Jennifer Coppola Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 322-5527 313 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Anita Disney Neuroscience |
 | Rebecca Cox Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science The role of sleep in the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders |
 | Rebecca Cutler Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Sean Polyn Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Christopher Daniell Graduate Student | Email Hobbs 301 |
Faculty Advisor: Elisabeth Dykens Clinical Science Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and comorbid psychopathology |
 | Kacie Dougherty Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-5527 402 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Alexander Maier Neuroscience |
 | Ashli-Ann Douglas Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 201 |
Faculty Advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson Developmental Science |
 | Steven Errington Graduate student | Email Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Schall Neuroscience Performance monitoring in the supplementary eye field and anterior cingulate cortex |
 | Israel Flores Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 308 |
Faculty Advisor: Georgene Troseth Developmental Science |
 | S. Mason Garrison Graduate Student | Email Website Hobbs 203 |
Faculty Advisor: Joe Rodgers Quantitative Methods Kinship Modeling; Individual Differences |
 | Meredith Gruhn Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-6613 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science My research focuses on understanding stress and coping in at-risk children as well as the development and implementation of preventative interventions for these populations. |
 | Alexandria Ree Hadd Graduate Student | Email Hobbs 208 |
Faculty Advisor: Joe Rodgers Quantitative Methods |
 | Gloria Han Graduate Student | Email 615-343-6970 309 WH |
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Tomarken Clinical Science |
| Caoimhe Harrington Stack Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Duane Watson Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Lauren Hartsough Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Ali Hassani | Email 2-5527 |
Faculty Advisor: Thilo Womelsdorf Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience |
| Lauren Henry Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 311 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Understanding stress and its impact on children and families; developing, implementing, and evaluating preventive interventions that serve this population. | |
 | Kendra Hinton Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-343-1486 205 WH |
Faculty Advisor: David Zald Clinical Science I am broadly interested in neural correlates of latent factors of psychopathology, with a focus on brain network topology |
 | Min Kyung "Clair" Hong Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fazio Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Megan Ichinose Graduate Student | Email 615-322-5527 313 WH |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science |
 | Christopher Brett Jaeger Graduate Student | Email 207 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Levin Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Hojin Jang Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Sofia Jimenez Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 201 |
Faculty Advisor: Megan Saylor Developmental Science |
 | Loran Kelly Doctoral Candidate | Email 428 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: David Schlundt Clinical Science |
 | Kelly Knowles Graduate Student | Email 615-322-5522 312 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science Intolerance of uncertainty, exposure therapy, anxiety, emotion |
 | Mark Lachowicz Graduate Student | Email Website Hobbs 214 |
Faculty Advisor: Kristopher Preacher Quantitative Methods Mediation analysis, latent variable modeling |
| HyeonSeung Lee | Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Schizophrenia, Cognition, Social cognition | ||
 | Dakota Lindsey Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-5595 |
Faculty Advisor: Gordon Logan Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Kaleb Lowe Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Schall Neuroscience | |
 | Sophia Lubarsky Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science | |
 | Huiyuan Miao | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience | |
 | Lexa Murphy Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website Hobbs 310 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science I am interested in parent-child communication, coping, neurocognitive function, and medical traumatic stress in pediatric populations, such as families affected by childhood cancer and congenital heart disease |
 | Bridget Nestor Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science familial factors influencing adolescent depression; treatment and prevention | |
 | Phillip Newman | Email 309 WH |
Faculty Advisor: Timothy McNamara Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Elizabeth A. Nick Graduate Student | Email 615-322-7207 301 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science Adolescent depression, peer victimization, online social support |
 | Patrick OKeefe Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Joe Rodgers Quantitative Methods Quantitative methods, flynn effect, child behavior problems | |
| Jon Parillo | Faculty Advisor: Gordon Logan Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Kemar V Prussien Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-343-8720 Hobbs 310 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Coping, Cognitive Function, & Communication in Pediatric Populations |
| Weiqiang (Tom) Qian Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website (615)775-7628 Hobbs 207 |
Faculty Advisor: Craig Smith Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Quantitative Methods I study the finer details of the appraisal processes in emotion experiences. | |
 | Jason Rights Graduate Student | Email Website Hobbs 214 |
Faculty Advisor: Sonya Sterba Quantitative Methods |
 | Noah Robinson Graduate Student | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: Steven Hollon Clinical Science |
 | Margaret Shavlik Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Jesup 308 |
Faculty Advisor: Amy Booth Developmental Science Early literacy, achievement gaps, parent-child interaction |
| Katherine Shepard Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey Developmental Science | ||
 | Rachel Siciliano Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-6613 311 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Neurocognitive function, risk for psychopathology, and the development and implementation of interventions in at-risk pediatric populations |
 | Jennifer Stewart Graduate Student | Email Hobbs 301 |
Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science Etiology & Prevention of Depression |
 | Zachary Stuckelman Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Georgene Troseth Developmental Science Research surrounding how children interact with and learn from symbolic media. |
| Jisoo Sun | Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience | ||
 | Mackenzie Sunday Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 226 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Susanna Sutherland Graduate Student | Email Website Hobbs 301 |
Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science Prevention of depression and other psychopathology in offspring of depressed parents, intergenerational transmission of depression |
 | Nicholas Tippenhauer Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 201 |
Faculty Advisor: Megan Saylor Faculty Advisor: Duane Watson Developmental Science language development; word learning; language production |
 | Lénie Torregrossa Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 310-694-6450 311 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science My research focuses on bodily self disturbances in the schizophrenia spectrum. |
 | Benjamin Voloh PhD candidate | Email Wilson Hall 313 |
Faculty Advisor: Thilo Womelsdorf Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience |
| Allison Vreeland Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 207a |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Understanding the mechanisms of actions in interventions for youth with anxiety and depression; specifically, the role of stress, coping, and executive functioning in these populations | |
 | Madison Wagener | Faculty Advisor: Andrew Tomarken Clinical Science Quantitative Methods | |
 | Jin Wang Graduate Student | Email Lab Website HOBBS 425 |
Faculty Advisor: James Booth Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science language brain specialization with development |
 | Qimeng Wang Graduate Student | Email 313 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jon Kaas Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience |
 | Jacob Westerberg Graduate Student | Email 612 655 9336 516 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Schall Faculty Advisor: Alexander Maier Neuroscience Bottom-up and Top-down Influences on Stimulus Encoding in Visual Cortex |
 | Marcus Wild Graduate Student | Email 615-322-5593 Wilson Hall 429 |
Faculty Advisor: Jo-Anne Bachorowski Clinical Science Social cognition and emotion, empathy, and patient-provider interactions |
| Linhe Xu | Faculty Advisor: Suzana Herculano Neuroscience Interdisciplinary | ||
 | Janet Yarboi Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-343-8720 Hobbs 310 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Interested in the impact of social-environmental stress and parenting on psychological and cognitive development in pediatric populations |
| Darren Yeo Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website Hobbs 302 |
Faculty Advisor: Gavin Price Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fazio Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Educational neuroscience; Numerical and mathematical cognition; Learning and memory | |
 | Rachel Zelkowitz Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science Transdiagnostic processes associated with self-harm behaviors |