Lab Alumni

Fatim joined the RADD lab in December 2022 as a Professional Research Assistant and primarily works on the CUWB and TERA studies. She graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a double major in Psychology and Chemistry and she hopes to eventually pursue a PhD in child and/or adolescent clinical psychology. She is interested in understanding the cognitive mechanism of the brain and how it reflects on children’s and...

Chloe graduated in 2019 with a BS in Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University. As the study coordinator for the CU Well Brain study, she is fascinated by the focus on student wellness and how the RADD Lab is looking at the many ways young adults can stay resilient when faced with stress. She is also interested in the intersection of technology, clinical psychology, and cognition. Chloe is moving on to...

Ziwei graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022 with a double major in Psychology and Statistics. She is interested in developmental risk and resilience factors related to learning or executive functioning. She is also interested in the collaboration of psychology, statistics, and computer science, and hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology. In her free time, Ziwei enjoys skiing, watching movies, and exploring Boulder.

Aly joined the RADD lab in fall, 2021 as a post-doc research associate. Aly’s graduate work focused on the impacts of life stressors on mood and the brain, and cognitive factors that alter these impacts. Aly is excited to build on this work in the RADD Lab – in particular, she looks forward to investigating how neural stress and reward systems interact with each other, and how these interactions are...

Jamie worked as an undergraduate volunteer and a research assistant in our lab! She now works as a Clinical Neuropsych Research Coordinator at the VA San Diego.

Alexa joined the lab in August 2022 as Professional Research Assistant and is coordinating the SCCY study. She graduated from Tulane University in 2021 with a B.S. in Psychology and hopes to eventually pursue a PhD in child or adolescent clinical psychology. She is interested in examining effective interventions, evidence-based treatments, and community-based supports that could lead to higher rates of resilience for children and adolescents who experience trauma or...

Sarah Johlfs is a senior at the University of Colorado Boulder, pursuing a double major in Neuroscience and Psychology and a certificate in Public Health. She joined the RADD Lab in Fall 2021 as an undergraduate research assistant. She hopes to become a physician and will be applying to medical school at the end of her senior year. Sarah believes that mental health and research are extremely important parts of...

Kaley is a senior undergraduate at CU Boulder studying psychology with two minors in women and gender studies and ethnic studies. As an undergraduate research assistant, she enjoys working with participants in cognitive testing sessions. Kaley is working on an honors thesis studying the impact trauma has on adolescents living with depression, and the cognitive processes that may play a role in the development and maintenance of their disorder.

Joey is a student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at CU. Before joining this program, Joey received his BA from Duke University, where he studied Psychology and Global Health. He then worked as a Professional Research Assistant and Senior Project Manager for the Renée Crown Wellness Institute. He is fascinated by research and interventions that work to prevent the development of mental health disorders or, reciprocally, to enable healthy...

Anila is a second-year student at CU Boulder and is excited to engage in clinical research at the RADD Lab! She is interested in increasing access to mental health resources and improving health equity, as well as learning about health-environment interactions. In her free time, Anila likes to paint with watercolors and (try to) complete New York Times crossword puzzles.

Chiara is a clinical psychology PhD student in the RADD Lab. She is interested in learning more about promoting resilience, flourishing, and optimal wellness amongst adolescents and young adults. She also hopes to explore evidence-based ways to prevent adolescent psychopathology.

Aryanna is a senior at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is majoring in Neuroscience and Pre-Health. As an undergraduate research assistant, Aryanna enjoys listening to participant's life and mood experiences, while also engaging participants in behavioral games. Aryanna is interested in working memory's relation to the mood disorder continuum. She is currently working on an honors thesis focusing on cognition and mixed depression.

Sophie is an undergraduate research assistant for RADD lab and is double majoring in Neuroscience and Psychology. Her primary field of interest is positive psychology and studying how we can lift all people to a state of flourishing, no matter how mild or severe their history with mental illness. To practice wellness in her own life, she enjoys yoga, hiking, guitar, and game nights with her roommates.

Suzanne graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BS in Psychology and a minor in adolescent development. She began her career in an adolescent research lab at Stanford University, and after some graduate work, she landed at the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience in Boulder. Throughout her career, and after raising her three children, she’s become even more focused on research in affective disorders, and the complications posed...

Kendall is a senior at the University of Colorado Boulder, pursuing a double major in Psychology and Biology. She joined the RADD lab in Fall 2021 as an undergraduate research assistant, and hopes to eventually pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Kendall is currently working on independent research that investigates correlations between subtypes of childhood trauma and chronicity of depression.