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We are a lab of diverse people who bring ideas and insights from multiple disciplines, backgrounds, and life experiences.

Directors

Karen Quigley

Professor, Department of Psychology,
Northeastern University

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Jordan Theriault

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology & Department of Biology, Northeastern University

Research Affiliate, Department of Radiology, MGH Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

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Lisa Feldman Barrett

University Distinguished Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Northeastern University

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Lab Members

Affiliated Researchers

Joe Andreano, Ph.D.
Changes in emotional memory due to aging

Agostina Casamento-Moran, Ph.D.
Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of fatigue in health and disease

Zulqarnain Khan, Ph.D.
Machine learning models for interdisciplinary applications

Yuta Katsumi, Ph.D.
Multimodal neuroimaging of aging and neurodegenerative dementias

Yorgos Stratis, Ph.D.
Combining physics with machine learning and statistical techniques to study dynamical systems, with emphasis on cognitive systems

Alexandra Touroutoglou, Ph.D.
Human brain in aging, superaging, and in neurodegenerative dementia

Post-Doctoral Fellows & Research Scientists

Phil Deming, Ph.D.
Interoception and emotion
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Henning Reimann,Ph.D.
Ultrahigh field MR neuroimaging; neural mechanisms of meaning, suffering, and consciousness

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Graduate Students

Clare Shaffer
System-wide metabolic phenotypes of psychiatric disorders and implications for affect and behavior. Google Scholar

Kieran McVeigh
The role of interoceptive information in the construction of affective experiences. Google Scholar

Chelsea Ajunwa
Characterizing and modulating functional brain networks in psychiatric populations Google Scholar

Antonietta Alvarez
Understanding brain metabolic provision, waste clearance, and vascularity in neurological and psychiatric disorders Google Scholar

Maya Barton-Zuckerman
Variation in interoceptive processing in the construction of affective experiences ResearchGate

Serife Leman Runyun
The role of internal bodily states in decision making and error monitoring Google Scholar

Yiyang Gao
Reciprocal body-brain constraints in adaptive and predictive processing ResearchGate

Joshua Paul Rodriguez
Computational structures and tooling for predictive processing and allostasis ResearchGate

Lily Marino
Measuring how contextual factors internal and external to the body shape affective experiences Google Scholar

Research Staff

Aidan Mahoney
Lab Manager, Northeastern University

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Chan Hong
Research Technician, Northeastern University

Lab Cinematographer

Van Yang
Filmmaker and Creative

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Emeritus

Former Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Scientists, and Ph.D. Students

Eric Anderson, Ph.D.
Faculty Scientist I, Maine Medical Center Research Institute;
Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Keith Aronson, Ph.D.
Director, Clearinghouse, Penn State;
Research Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State

Shir Atzil, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hebrew University

Kevin Bickart, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Sport and Behavioral Neurology, UCLA; Clinical Instructor and Fellow, UCLA Neurobehavior and Neuropsychiatry Program

Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Leadership Professor, University of California, Davis;
Core Scientist, California National Primate Research Center

Lorena Chanes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and Institute of Neurosciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Maximilien Chaumon, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinièr

Danlei Chen, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow, MIT

Paul Condon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Southern Oregon University

Tamlin Conner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand

Candace C. Croney, Ph.D., 1999
Professor of Animal Behavior & Well-Being, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Director, Center for Animal Welfare Science

Thyra Fossum, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist; Executive Council, Minnesota Psychological Association

Jennifer Fugate, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Kansas City University

Maria Gendron, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Yale University

Peter J. Gianaros, Ph.D., 2000
Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

Katie Hoemann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Dale J. Weary Faculty Fellow of Social Psychology, University of Kansas

Ian Kleckner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Maryland-Baltimore; Director, SYNAPSE Center

Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, Ph.D.
Unidel A. Gilchrist Sparks III Chair in the Social Sciences & Professor, University of Delaware

Lisa Baker, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Florida

Elizabeth A. D’Andrea, Ph.D.

Elizabeth A. D’Andrea, Ph.D.
Health Science Specialist, Department of Veterans Affairs

Lisa A. McAndrew, Ph.D.
Clinical Health Psychologist & Lead Researcher, Behavioral Health Research Laboratory

Erin D. Reilly, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Headway, New York State

Kristen Lindquist, Ph.D.
Professor, Professor, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Ohio State University

Spencer Lynn, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Charles River Analytics

Tracey Madden, Ph.D.
Leadership Coach, Accelerator Program (Volunteer), Braven

Tuan Le Mau, Ph.D.
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Pascall Systems, Inc.

Yoshiya Moriguchi, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Medial Advisor, Lundbeck; Division Chief, Pathophysiology, Integrative Brain Imaging Center, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan

Suzanne Oosterwijk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam

Ajay Satpute, Ph.D.
Professor, Social and Affective Neuroscience, UCLA

Myeong-Gu Seo, Ph.D.
Professor of Management and Organization, University of Maryland

Erika Siegel, Ph.D.
Engineer, HP Inc.

Alexandra Touroutoglou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Michele M. Tugade, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychological Science on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair, Vassar College

Christi Westlin, Ph.D.
Research Fellow in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Mariann Weierich, Ph.D.
James K. and Lois Merritt Mikawa Distinguished Professor in Clinical Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno

Suzanne E. Weinstein, Ph.D., 1999
Retired, final position: Assistant Vice Provost for Learning Outcomes Assessment, Office of Planning and Assessment, Pennsylvania State University

Christy Wilson-Mendenhall, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jolie Wormwood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire

Jiahe Zhang, Ph.D.
Investigator and Instructor in Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Xuan Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University; Head Of Business Development, Longteng Electronics Co.

Kieran McVeigh, Ph.D.
The role of interoceptive information in the construction of affective experiences.

Jasmine Mote, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Cambridge Psychology Group

Stephanie Robinson, Ph.D.
Research Health Scientist, VA Bedford Healthcare System; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

Isabella M. Rodrigues, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Strategic Site Solutions, IQVIA