Graduate Students

Shabnam Hossein, PhD, MA

Shabnam graduated from University of Houston with a Ph.D. in Physics, after which she spent one year working as a volunteer research assistant at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania. Her primary research interests lie in understanding the underlying cognitive mechanisms that maintain psychopathological symptoms especially present in anxiety and mood disorders. She is also interested in applying methods of network science, which has been shown to be successful in many other disciplines, to study psychopathology.

Victoria Lawlor, MA

Victoria graduated from Northeastern University with a B.S. in Psychology and minor in Computer Science. Before joining the TReAD lab, she worked as a student intern and co-op research assistant at McLean Hospital, where she used EEG and computational modeling to investigate learning and memory processes in adults with depression. Victoria is interested in using neuroimaging and computational methods to probe dysfunctional value-based decision-making in depression and anxiety. She is also interested identifying linguistic markers of psychopathology using natural language processing.

 

Sarah Etuk, MA

Sarah graduated with a BA in neuroscience from Pomona college, and then completed the NIH PREP program at Northwestern University. Her work in the lab has focused on examining the role of inflammation and immunometabolism in context of motivational impairments in mood disorders. She is also interested in the neurobiological consequences of early life adversity and their role in the development of mental illness.

Marta Migo, MA


Marta graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Psychology, a B.F.A. in Drama, and minors in Computer Science and Philosophy. She then worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital for two years, in the Division of Neurotherapeutics. Currently, Marta is interested in using neuroimaging and computational psychiatry techniques to study free and perseverative thought patterns, such as worry and rumination, in mood and anxiety-related disorders.

Shosuke Suzuki, MA

Shosuke graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Neuroscience. Before joining the TReAD lab, he spent 3 years working as a research assistant at Yale University, where he gained experience running multi-session clinical trials with fMRI and EEG components in Substance Use Disorders. He is primarily interested in using ecological paradigms to examine the interface between motivation and action. Outside of lab, he enjoys cooking, bouldering, and meditating.

Let’s Work Together

We are currently recruiting volunteers for multiple research studies.