Graduate students

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 senior data analyst at Walgreens.










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 post-doctoral 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 resident 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 is now a post-doctoral research fellow working with Rebecca Saxe and Nancy Kanwisher at MIT.


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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 is now a post-doctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Alex Martin at the National Institute of Mental Health at NIH.


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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. He is now on teaching faculty at the Oxford College of Emory University.










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

Joeli Luong

Emory ‘25: Psychology Major

Tanush Soni

Emory ‘26: Psychology & Economics Double Major