Stan de Visser Graduate Student, Social, Developmental, and Health Psychology Stan completed a liberal arts undergraduate education at the University College Maastricht (UCM) and a Research Masters in Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University. During his Master's, he conducted a research internship at the University of Cambridge with Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, assisting Dr. Sara De Felice with research on interpersonal dynamics and learning. His thesis used previously collected data from University College London to examine the relationship between learning and social interaction in online contexts. Stan subsequently worked as a Research Assistant with Professor Eveline Crone at Erasmus University Rotterdam, contributing to (f)MRI data collection for the Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS) consortium. He then worked with Professor Michelle Achterberg to establish an MRI study on parental burnout, independently scanning approximately 100 participants and supervising student research assistants. As a PhD student at UGA, his research interests focus on developmental neuroscience and mental health during adolescence.
Emily Drexler Graduate Student, Cognitive Neuroscience Program Education Education: Macalester College, B.A. in Neuroscience, 2019-2023 Research Research Interests: My research interests involve understanding the relationship between early life adversity, psychopathology, and functional connectivity. At UGA, I'm in the BRAIN Lab working with Dr. Max Herzberg researching atypical development in at-risk youth using brain imaging, primarily fMRI, and behavioral measures.
Brandi Reynolds Graduate Student, Social, Developmental, and Health Psychology Education Education: M.A., Psychological Research, Texas State University (2026) B.S., Psychology, University of Florida (2021)
Ceyda Ozer Graduate Student, Social, Developmental, and Health Psychology Ceyda Ozer is a PhD student in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences program at the University of Georgia, where she works in Richard Slatcher's Close Relationships Lab. She received her B.A. and M.S. in Psychology from Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2026. Her research broadly focuses on day-to-day social interactions with close and weak ties, and how these interactions shape well-being. She is especially interested in how people forecast and evaluate their everyday interactions with weak ties, and how these judgments are reflected in their social behavior and well-being. She is also interested in how these processes vary across cultural contexts and social situations.
Alex Dhima Graduate Student, Clinical Program Alex's research integrates affective neuroscience and digital phenotyping methods using computational approaches such as machine learning to more comprehensively understand the mechanisms of emotion regulation difficulties in patients with schizophrenia and youth at high risk for psychosis. He is a recipient of the Presidential Graduate Fellow Award at the University of Georgia. Alex graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with degrees in Computer Science and Psychology in 2024. Upon graduation, he worked at Harvard Medical School on machine learning and digital phenotyping projects in adult psychiatry, and later joined the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate adolescent depression using precision neuroscience methods. Education Education: B.S., Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst B.A., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
