Emma Ilyaz, MSc (she/her)

Emma is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology. Before this, she completed her Honours Bachelor of Science with Distinction at Queen's University in 2021 and worked for a year as a lab coordinator, and then was a Master's student in the EMBody Lab. Emma is fascinated by the ways in which young people acquire emotion knowledge, especially the abilities to interpret their bodily arousal and identify and label their feelings. Her Master's research examined the impact of parental psychopathology and dysregulated parental emotion displays on youths' emotional development. Her doctoral research examines how adverse childhood environments, especially emotional neglect, could influence adolescents' abilities to decode their own emotions. 

When not working, Emma enjoys reading fiction and non-fiction books, scrolling on TikTok, watching documentaries and tending to her diverse interests, from learning about airplanes to finding the perfect lasagna recipe.