Graduate Students
Eli Bell
Research Lab: Mike Chmielewski - AMPP Lab
Research Interests: measure development and validation, perseverative thinking and related cognitive vulnerabilities, and dimensional classification of psychopathology (i.e., HiTOP).
Email: belle@smu.edu
Doga Cetinkaya
Research Lab: Alicia Meuret - Anxiety and Depression Research Center
Research Interests: exploring cognitive and affective processes related to depression and anxiety, with the goal of translating this knowledge into novel interventions.
Email: dcetinkaya@smu.edu
Rachel Chan
Research Lab: Ernest Jouriles - Family Research Center
Research Interests: discrimination, mental health inequities, pathways to psychopathology, and intervention development in marginalized communities and communities of color.
Email: chanr@smu.edu
Sarah Cline
Research Lab: Holly Bowen - MAPL
Research Interests:
Email: scline@smu.edu
Jacqueline Fidelow
Research Lab: Chrystyna Kouros - Family Health and Development Lab
Research Interests: family relationships and dynamics, parent - child relationships and how they effect different aspects of the family, as well as each member's individual life and experiences. My time working as a psychometrist provided me with real-world examples of the importance of intrafamilial relationships, specifically parent-child relationships, to an individual's mental health and well-being.
Email: jfidellow@smu.edu
Windsor Hall
Research Lab: Thomas Ritz - Psychobiology of Emotion, Stress, and Chronic Disease Research Program
Research Interests: cognition in older adults, health behavior, and chronic disease
Email: wghall@smu.edu
Sneh Jhaveri
Research Lab: Sarah Kucker - KID Lab
Research Interests: Language Development, Word Learning, Digital Media, Socioeconomic Status
Email: sjhaveri@smu.edu
Alexa Jimenez
Research Lab: Mike Chmielewski - AMPP Lab
Research Interests: assessing internalizing symptoms in daily life and how to use assessments to understand the structure and function of psychopathology, improving the classification of psychopathology, Ecological momentary assessment, Measure development & Psychometrics, The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology, Personality pathology, Translation of empirical research findings to clinical practices
Email: alexajimenez@smu.edu
Caroline Lee
Research Lab: Mike Chmielewski - AMPP Lab
Research Interests: psychometrics and measure development, dimensional models of psychopathology, quantitative assessment of minority stress and intersectionality.
Email: carolinelee@smu.edu
Julie Pham
Research Lab: Holly Bowen - MAPL
Research Interests: aging, memory, motivational and affective processes. Examining how motivational and affective process change with age and the effect on memory and cognition.
Email: jqpham@smu.edu
Sierra Rufino
Research Lab: Nathan Hudson - Delta
Research Interests: pathological personality traits, how they change in the face of minor interventions and how they impact close relationships. Particularly borderline personality disorder traits.
Email: srufino@smu.edu
Margot Salsman
Research Lab: Ritz/Meuret Labs
Email: msalsman@smu.edu
Melissa Sitton
Research Lab: Ernest Jouriles - Family Research Center
Research Interests: victimization and adversity, protective factors for youth following violence exposure, emotion regulation, interventions
Email: msitton@smu.edu
Sumaiyah Syed
Research Lab: Holly Bowen - MAPL
Research Interests: early life stress, inflammation, cognition, and aging, with a focus on identifying protective factors in minority populations
Email: susyed@smu.edu
Sofia Uribe
Research Lab: Alicia Meuret - Anxiety and Depression Research Center
Research Interests: dimensional analysis of anxiety and mood disorders, novel treatment interventions, treatment interventions for Spanish-speaking Hispanic community.
Email: suribe@smu.edu
Mbonobong (MB) Usua
Research Lab: Ernest Jouriles - Family Research Center
Research Interests: interpersonal violence, early childhood adversity, effects of discrimination, communities of color, LGBTQ+ communities
Email: musua@smu.edu
Iris Yang
Research Lab: Holly Bowen - MAPL
Research Interests: informal caregiving, relationships and physical and cognitive health.
Email: iyang@smu.edu