Alumni

Ashley Slocum, B.S.

Ashley Slocum was a Project Coordinator at the DSN Lab from June 2023 to June 2025. She is currently a student in the Master’s of  Social Work at UNC Chapel Hill.

 

Juan Bellassai, M.A.

Juan Bellassai was a Project Coordinator at the DSN Lab from June 2023 to April 2025. He is currently exploring future opportunities in clinical psychology and mental health research.

 

Jinquiang Dai, Ph.D. 

Jinquiang Dai was a postdoctoral fellow at UNC’s Center for Developmental Science from 2021 to July 2024. He is now a professor at Georgia State University.

 

Sarah Albani, B.S.

Sarah Albani was a Project Coordinator at the DSN Lab from June 2022 to May 2024. She is currently a doctoral student in the Clinical-Health Psychology program at Ohio State University.

 

Mary Cox, B.S. 

Mary Cox was a Project Coordinator at the DSN Lab from June 2022 to May 2024. She is currently a doctoral student in the Social and Personality Psychology at Washington University.

 

Natasha Duell, Ph.D.

Natasha Duell was a postdoctoral fellow at UNC’s Center for Developmental Science from 2018 to July 2023. She is now an assistant professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

 

Alexa Cilia, B.S. 

Alexa Cilia was the DSN lab manager from June 2021 to May 2023. She is currently a student in the Master’s of Marriage and Family Therapy program at Northwestern University.

 

Courtney Medina, B.S.

Courtney Medina was a Project Coordinator at the DSN Lab from June 2021 to June 2023. She is currently a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology at the University of Pittsburg.

 

Maria Sobrino, B.S.

Maria Sobrino was a Project Coordinator at the DSN Lab from June 2021 to June 2023. She is currently a doctoral student in the Applied Psychology program at The City University of New York

 

Emma Armstrong-Carter, Ph.D.

Emma Armstrong-Carter was a post-doc from October 2022 to June 2023. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Tufts University.

 

Seh-Joo Kwon, Ph.D.

Seh’Joo Kwon was a doctoral student from 2018 to May 2023.  She is currently a post-doc at Rutgers University.

 

 

Nathan Jorgensen, Ph.D.

Nathan Jorgensen was a doctoral student from 2018 to May 2023. He is currently a post-doc at UNC Chapel Hill.

 

 

Zelal Kilic, B.A

Zelal Kilic was a Project Coordinator from July 2020 to 2022. She is currently a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pittsburg.

 

Jessica Flannery , Ph.D. 

Jessica Flannery was a post-doc from July 2020 to August 2021. She is currently a Clinical Research Scientist at Limbix Health.

 

Benjamin Nelson, Ph.D.

Benjamin Nelson was a post-doc from July 2020 to August 2021. He is currently Clinical Research Scientist at Meru Health.

 

Caitlin Turpyn, Ph.D. 

Caitlin Turpyn was a post-doc from July 2019 to August 2021. She will be completing a clinical and research postdoctoral fellowship in Devereux Children’s Behavioral Health system.

 

Emily Watlington, B.S. 

Emily Watlington was a Project Coordinator from 2019 to 2021 . She is  pursuing a career as an MRI Technician and is currently a Diagnostic Imaging Student at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s School of Health Professionals.

 

Rosario Villa, B.A. 

Rosario Villa was a Project Coordinator from 2019 to 2021. She is now a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Emily Bibby, B.A. 

Emily Bibby was the Lab Manager from 2019 to 2021. She is now a graduate student at Stony Brook University.

 

Melissa Burroughs, B.S.

Melissa Burroughs was the Assistant Lab Manager from 2019 to 2021 and an undergraduate research assistant before that. She is now a Data Management Analyst at Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety (RMPDS)

 

Kathy Do, Ph.D.

Kathy was a graduate student from 2015 to 2021. She is now a post doc at University  of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying under Michael Hallquist.

 

Ethan McCormick, Ph.D.

Ethan was a graduate student from 2014 to 2020. He is now a post doc at Rutgers University studying under Michael Cole.

 

Karee Jones, B.A.

Karee was the lab manager from 2018 to 2019. He is now the Clinical Operations Manager at The Dorm in Washington, DC.

 

Christy Rogers, Ph.D.

Christy was a postdoctoral fellow from 2016 to 2019. She is now an assistant professor at Texas Tech.

 

Virnaliz Jimenez, B.A.

Virnaliz Jimenez was a project coordinator for Project NeuroTeen from 2017 to 2019. She is now a graduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

 

Amanda Benjamin, B.A.

Amanda was a project coordinator for Project NeuroTeen from 2017 to 2019. She is now a graduate student at  CUNY John Jay.

 

Paul Sharp, Ph.D.

Paul was a graduate student from 2015 to 2019. He is now a post-doc at the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research.

 

Tae-Ho Lee, Ph.D.

Tae-Ho was a post-doctoral fellow from 2015 to 2018. He is now the director of the Affective Neurodynamics & Development Lab at Virginia Tech.

 

Jorien van Hoorn, Ph.D.

Jorien was a post-doctoral fellow from 2016 to 2018.  She is an assistant professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

 

Susannah Ivory, B.A.

Susannah was the lab manager from 2015 to 2018. She is currently a graduate student at Penn State University.

 

Carina Fowler, B.A. 

Carina was the project coordinator for Project NeuroTeen from 2016 to 2018. She is currently a graduate student at Duke University.

 

Lynda Lin, Ph.D.

Lynda was a graduate student from 2015-2017. She is now a data scientist at Getty Images.

 

Michael Perino, Ph.D.

Michael was a graduatecstudent from 2012-2018. He is now a postdoctoral scholar at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Yang Qu, Ph.D.

Yang was a graduate student from 2010-2016. He is currently an assistant professor at Northwestern University.

 

Michelle Miernicki, M.A.

Michelle was a graduate student from 2012-2016. She is currently a Reward Analyst for BP.

 

 

Heather Ross

Heather was the project coordinator for the Children Social Development Project (CSDP).

 

Xin Yuen, M.A.

Xin was a graduate student from 2013-2016.  She currently works as a Senior Data Analyst at the National Education Association (NEA).

 

Elizabeth Barlow Lozano, Ph.D.

Liz was the project coordinator for Project Social Contexts & Adolescent Neural Development (SCAND). She is an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Sociology in the College of Health Sciences at California Northstate University.

 

João Guassi Moreira, M.S.

Joao graduated from the University of Illinois in 2016 with a BS in Psychology. He did his honors thesis in the DSNLab. He is currently a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles working with Jennifer Silvers.

 

Nick Ichien, M.S.

Nick was the lab manager from 2012-2014. He is now a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles.