Staff and Graduate Students

Vera Vine 
Principal Investigator 
Mayah Palmer
Graduate Student 
Emma Ilyaz
Graduate Student 
Prakash Thambipillai
Graduate Student 
Nina Micanovic
Graduate Student 
Yifan Chen
Research Technician 
Shira Greenstein
Coordinator 

Thesis Students

Amor Adolfo
Sean Koh
Ariyana Makanjee
Camden Trepanier

Research Assistants

Alisha Ahmed
Abdullah Bhuiyan
Nekzad Illava
Jocelyne Harling
Lezhi Meng
Lizzie Pelletier
Annie Tian
Alana Tran

Affiliated Students

Peja Middaugh
Emily Williams
Selena Zou

Alumni

Laura Abbatangelo
Katelyn Battad
Riley Bonar
Talia Buckhalter
Jason Burns
Dharmayu Desai
Kate Gallant
Logan Goldring
Maya Haklai
Matthew Katzman
Gaurav Kumar
Bingyi Lin
Colin McDermot
Maya Mckinlay
Justus Vasilakos Mcrae
Abdul Mosli
Caiden Royce
Jackie Wang
Emma Wilkinson

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, Ph.D.

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)