Staff and Graduate Students

Dr. Vera Vine 
Principal Investigator 
Mayah Palmer
Graduate Student 
Emma Ilyaz
Graduate Student 
Prakash Thambipillai
Graduate Student 
Nina Micanovic
Graduate Student 
Research Technician
Coming Soon 
Technical Assistant
Coming Soon 
Coordinator 
Coming Soon 

Undergraduate Thesis Students

Maya Haklai
Colin McDermot
Caiden Royce

Directed Research Students & Research Assistants

Amor Adolfo
Alisha Ahmed
Abdullah Bhuiyan
Shira Greenstein
Jocelyne Harling
Sean Koh
Peja Middaugh
Lizzie Pelletier
Emily Williams
Selena Zou
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EMBody Lab Alumni

Laura Abbatangelo
Katelyn Battad
Riley Bonar
Talia Buckhalter
Jason Burns
Dharmayu Desai
Kate Gallant
Logan Goldring
Gaurav Kumar
Maya Mckinlay
Justus Vasilakos Mcrae

Outside & Former Mentees

Even before opening the EMBody Lab, Dr. Vine had the opportunity to mentor many incredible trainees. Several are still working in psychology or closely related fields. Browse their bios below to learn about some of these fabulous scholars and where they are now.

Bryan Balvaneda, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Resident, University of California, San Diego

Emily E. Bernstein, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School

Harmohy Mohr, B.S., B.A.

Clinical Trials Proposal Analyst, ACM Global Laboratories

Jonae Lloyd, 

B.S.

Research Project Assistant, University of Pittsburgh

Samuel R. Petrie, B.S.

Medical Student, Harvard Medical School

Cameron P. Pugach, M.A.

PhD Student, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Lorraine Scott, B.S.

PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin

Ilana Seager van Dyk, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer, Massey University

Collaborators

  • Sarah Victor, Ph.D., Texas Tech University (short- and long-term risk factors in self-harm behavior)
  • Stephanie Stepp, Ph.D., University Pittsburgh (child and youth emotional development, borderline personality disorder) 
  • Amy Byrd, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (risk for emotion and behavior dysregulation, emotion socialization)
  • Brett Marroquín, Ph.D., Loyola Marymount University (relationships, interpersonal emotion regulation in psychopathology, coping w/ illness)
  • Shimrit Daches, Ph.D., Bar Ilan University (cognitive and physiological risk factors in depression onset)
  • Lisa Starr, Ph.D., University of Rochester (emotion, stress, and internalizing disorders)