Dr. Stephanie Cacioppo, Ph.D.
Director
Dr. Cacioppo (née Ortigue) received her Ph.D. from the Department of Neurology at the Geneva University Medical School (Switzerland) and the Department of Psychology at the University of Savoy (France) in 2004. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The Division of Biological Sciences, at the University of Chicago and directs the Brain Dynamics Laboratory at the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (CCSN). Author of two books and more than 120 scientific articles (current h-index: 39), her general research area is at the intersection of social neuroscience, medicine and cognitive pyschology in health and neurological disease.
Email: scacioppo@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu
Dr. John T. Cacioppo
Founder, Center for Cognitive & Social Neuroscience
George Monteleone
Functional MRI Analyst
Email: georgem@uchicago.edu
Temisan Blagogee
Research Assistant
Email: tblagogee@uchicago.edu
Shawn Cho
Research Assistant
Shawn is a neuroscience and philosophy major.
Email: scho20@uchicago.edu
Meghan Elliott
Research Assistant
Meghan Elliott is a 4th year psychology major, neuroscience minor from Tucson, Arizona. She plans to eventually pursue a PhD in clinical psychology, with the dream of one day establishing a free or sliding-scale mental health clinic for under-served populations. In her free time, she can be found singing in the vocal studies program, in University of Chicago Motet Choir, and most often in her shower.
Email: mkelliott@uchicago.edu
Alan Kim
Research Assistant
Alan is a second-year student majoring in Biology and Neuroscience. On campus, he actively participates in RSOs through serving in the boards of Uncommon Nights, United Against Inequities in Disease (UAID), American Red Cross, and the UChicago Horticultural Society. In the Brain Dynamics Laboratory, he mainly helps run the studies in the wet lab, while performing some basic statistic analyses of the data, especially eye tracking data, produced by our studies.
Email: alanjkim@uchicago.edu
Thomas Li
Research Assistant
Thomas is a 3rd year biology major from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Email: thomasli@uchicago.edu
Alex Scott
Research Assistant
Email: agscott@uchicago.edu
And thank you to our collaborators around the world!
HPEN/Brain Dynamics Lab Alumni:
Kelsey Peterson
Former Senior RA
Wasuwat Siewsrichol
Former EEG/ERP Research Specialist
Brenda Sawyer
Former Program Coordinator
Erika Kaske
Former Project Manager
Shashank Vege
Former Research Assistant
Cameron Martinez
Former Research Assistant
Molly Weiner
Former Research Assistant
Jeff Zhao
Former Research Assistant
Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez
Former HPEN Graduate Student
Ivo Ivanov Gyurovski
Former HPEN Graduate Student
Elliot Layden
Former HPEN Graduate Student
Prashant Parmar
Former HPEN Research Assistant
(2013)
Adina Bianchi
Former HPEN Research Assistant
(2014)
Evan Eschliman
Former Research Assistant
(2015-2017)
James Estaver
Former Research Assistant
(2014-2015)
Sophia Kierstead
Former Research Assistant
(2017)
Konrad Kubiki
Former HPEN Research Assistant
(2013)
Kyle Michelson
Former Research Assistant
(2014)
Stephen Balogh
Former Lab Manager
(2013-2014)
Rebecca Steinberg
Former e-newsletter editor
(2013-2014)
Munirah Bangee
Former Visiting Student
(Fall 2013) from University of Central Lancashire, U.K.
Lilla Horvath
Former Visiting Student
(Summer 2013) from Max Planck Institute & Humboldt University, Germany