Graduate students
Rebecca Rennert, PhD
Emory '26: Psychology - Cognition and Development
Rebecca completed her PhD in the Dilks Lab, investigating the development of scene processing. She is now a postdoctoral research fellow working with Leyla Isik at Johns Hopkins University.
Christopher Jones, MS
Emory '22: Psychology - Cognition and Development
Chris completed his MS in the Dilks Lab, investigating adult human navigation. He is now a measurement scientist at Instacart.
Ruu Harn (Annie) Cheng, Phd
Emory '22: Psychology - Cognition and Development
Annie completed her PhD in the Dilks Lab, investigating adult human visual scene processing. She is now a postdoctoral research fellow working with Sarah Yip at Yale.
Yaseen A. Jamal, PhD
Emory '20: Psychology - Cognition and Development
Yaseen completed his MD/PhD in the Dilks Lab, investigating reorganization in the adult human primary visual cortex. He is now a transfusion medicine fellow in the Department of Pathology at Stanford Medicine.
Frederik S. Kamps, PhD
Emory '19: Psychology - Cognition and Development
Freddy completed his PhD in the Dilks Lab, investigating human face and scene processing and their development. He was a postdoctoral research fellow working with Rebecca Saxe and Nancy Kanwisher at MIT and is now a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Andrew S. Persichetti, PhD
Emory '18: Psychology - Cognition and Development
Andrew completed his PhD in the Dilks Lab, investigating how we perceive people, places, and things. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Alex Martin at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the NIH and is now an Assistant Professor/Institute Scientist at Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute.
Bree Beal, PhD
Emory '18: Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Bree was a visiting scholar in the Dilks Lab, studying the neural basis of moral character detection.
Boris Botzanowski, PhD
Boris was a visiting postdoctoral fellow in the Dilks laboratory.
Research Assistants
Filip Durovic
Former Lab Manager
Samuel K. Weiller
Former Lab Manager
Sakib Alam
Emory '15: Chemistry Major
Alex Zorn
Emory '16: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology major
Shuchen Liu
Emory '16: Computer Science Major
Nate Sawyer
Emory '17: Music Major
Mark Spicer
Emory '17: Business Administration & Psychology Double Major
Kevin Williams
Emory '16: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology & Music Performance Double Major
Stephanie Wahab
Emory '17: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Major
Ethan Morris
Emory '17: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Major
Alex Liu
Emory '18: Biology and Philosophy Double Major
Bethanie Tabachnik
Emory '18: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Major
Eli Patt
Emory '18: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Major
Derek Hu
Emory '18: Chemistry Major
Daniel Jacobs
Emory '19: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Major
Sama Radwan
Emory '19: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and Spanish Double Major
Jordan Pincus
Emory '19: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Major
Jeanette Wong
Emory '20: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology & Psychology Double Major
Guldehan Durman
Former Lab Manager & Emory '19
Josh Byland
Former Lab Manager & Emory '20
Sabrina Flores
Emory '21: Psychology & Human Health Double Major
Zhuoyang (Joey) Ye
Emory '21: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology & Philosophy Double Major
Sabrina Flores
Emory '21: Psychology and Human Health Double Major with a minor in Business
Nathan Trinkl
Emory '22: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Major & Music Performance Double Major
Zirui (Ray) Chen
Emory '22: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology & Applied Math and Statistics Double Major
Michelle Chen
Emory '23: Psychology & Human Health Double Major
Marina Hashim
GIT ‘22: Business Administration Major (Pre-Health Track)
Virginia Chambers
Emory '23 Psychology Major
Olivia He
Emory '23 Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology Major & Dance & Movement Studies Minor
Ryan Ruhde
Emory '23 Psychology Major
Debbie Hsu
Emory '23 Psychology Major
Daniel Shi
Emory '24: Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology Major
Quyen Cao
Emory ‘24: Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology Major
Stuart Gakio
Emory ‘24: Psychology & English Double Major
Delaney Fischer
Emory ‘25: Psychology & Philosophy Double Major
Joeli Luong
Emory ‘25: Psychology Major
Tanush Soni
Emory ‘26: Psychology & Economics Double Major
Caroline Martin
Emory ‘26: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology & French Double Major
Emmy (Yujingai) Shi
Emory ‘25: Psychology & Computer Science Double Major
Talia Hansen-Mann
Emory ‘25: Psychology Major
Gray Williams
Emory '27: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Major
Kenji Wu
Emory ‘27: Psychology Major
Charlie Ragona
Emory ‘26: Psychology & Economics Double Major