Graduate Student & Staff Alumnae
Y. Irina Li, Ph.D.
Dr. Li (Ph.D., 2021, University of Rochester) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Seattle VA, where she also completed her predoctoral internship. Irina’s graduate research focused on the interplay between sleep, reward processing, and depression, and she received an F31 NRSA from the National Institute of Mental Health to support her dissertation work.
Zoey A. Shaw, Ph.D.
Dr. Shaw (Ph.D., 2021, University of Rochester) is a postdoctoral fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where she also completed her predoctoral internship. A primary focus of Zoey’s graduate research explored the developmental origins and consequences of rumination in adolescence.
Meghan Huang, Ph.D.
Dr. Huang (Ph.D., 2022, University of Rochester) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Durham VA, where she also completed her predoctoral internship. For Meghan’s dissertation, she developed and validated a novel measure of co-rumination that better differentiates between adaptive and non-adaptive elements of this construct, and used it to explore dyadic associations in co-rumination, mood, and relationship functioning in romantic couples.
Fanny Mlawer, Ph.D. (Staff alum)
Dr. Mlawer (Ph.D., 2022, University of Delaware) served as lab manager for the IDEA Lab from 2014-2016 and managed the SEED Study during its first wave and the planning/ initiation of its second wave. While a member of the IDEA Lab, she applied for and received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. She then attended the clinical psychology doctoral program at the University of Delaware, where she studied the stability of self-esteem in adolescents. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital.