Ahmad R. Hariri, Ph.D.

Dr. Hariri is Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University, where he is also the Director of the Laboratory of NeuroGenetics. After completing his B.S. (1994) and M.S. (1997) in evolutionary biology at the University of Maryland, Dr. Hariri completed his Ph.D. (2000) in the UCLA Interdepartmental Ph.D. Program for Neuroscience with Dr. Susan Bookheimer. He next completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health with Dr. Daniel Weinberger. From 2003-2009, Dr. Hariri was first Assistant and then Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry & Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

 

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Annchen Knodt, MS

Annchen earned a Master's in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Duke and now works in the LoNG as a Research Associate and data guru for the Dunedin Brain Imaging Study. Outside of work, Annchen enjoys work, buying houses, playing the piano, being crafty, and spending time in the great outdoors!

 

Bart Brigidi, PhD

Dr. Brigidi is a clinical neuropsychologist with training in neuroimaging and genomics and is a Research Scientist in the LoNG. Dr. Brigidi also is the founder and director of a private clinical practice, North Carolina Neurobehavioral Associates, specializing in assessment and treatment of ADHD, OCD, mTBI, ASD, anxiety and depression. He previously served as the Associate Director of the LoNG, overseeing clinical and regulatory operations for the Duke Neurogenetics Study.

 

Ethan Whitman, BS

Ethan is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program. He graduated from Tufts in 2019 and worked as a research fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health before coming to Duke. He is interested in individual differences in the functional organization of the brain and the relevance of these differences for mental illness. Outside of research he enjoys cooking, running, and watching scary movies.

 

Max Elliott, PhD

Max completed his clinical neuroscience PhD in the LoNG and went on to a postdoctoral fellowship with Randy Buckner, where he works on developing tools to precisely measure accelerated brain aging.

 

Madeline Farber, BA

Madeline completed her clinical neuroscience PhD in the LoNG and is now a Clinical Assistant Professor at UNC School of Medicine in the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. You can find more about her here: www.madelinefarber.com.

 

Tracy Darbeloff, BA

Tracy completed her Cognitive Neuroscience PhD in the LoNG in 2021 and went on to work as an Associate with Tempus Labs.

 

Kelly Faig, BA

Kelly worked as a Research Assistant in the LoNG from 2011-2013 before earning to pursue her PhD in the Integrative Neuroscience Psychology program at the University of Chicago. She returned to the LoNG as a postdoctoral fellow in 2019, and went on to join the faculty at Hamilton College in 2020.

 

Maria Sison, BS

After graduating from Duke with a B.S. in Neuroscience and working for two years as a data manager for the LoNG, Maria moved on to pursue her medical education at Duke University School of Medicine. She is interested in ultimately pursuing a career in geriatric medicine.

 

Megan Cooke, PhD

Megan received her PhD in Psychiatric, Behavioral, and Statistical Genetics from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2017. She worked as a postdoc in the Laboratory of NeuroGenetics from 2017 to 2019 where she learned how to (and how not to) analyze neuroimaging data. She is now a Research Fellow in the Center for Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

 

Reut Avinun, PhD

After completing her postdoctoral fellowship at Duke, Reut started a postdoctoral fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to continue her work on gene-environment interplay in psychopathology.

 

Adrienne Romer, PhD

Adrienne completed her Clinical Psychology PhD in the LoNG in 2019. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research at McLean Hospital working with Dr. Diego Pizzagalli.

 

Matt Scult, PhD

Matt received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duke in 2019. He is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, working with the Affective Disorders and Clinical Neuroscience Team.

 

Justin Kim, PhD

After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the LoNG in 2018, Justin joined the faculty in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii, where he is the director of the Human Affective Neuroscience Lab.

The HumAN lab website

 

Spenser Radtke, BS, MSW

After working as the lab manager for the LoNG for seven years, Spenser completed her Master's in Social Work and went on to practice at Duke Child and Family Study Center.

 

Jamie Hanson, PhD

After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the LoNG in 2016, Jamie joined the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Johnna Swartz, PhD

Johnna completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the LoNG in 2016 and has joined the faculty in the Department of Human Ecology at UC Davis.

 

Elena Goetz Davis, PhD

Elena received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Duke in 2015 and went on to a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

 

 

Liz Victor, PhD

After completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Duke, Liz went on to a postdoctral fellowship at the Childrens Medical Center of Dallas.

 

 

Devin Ulrich, BS

After finishing an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Biology at Duke and doing two years of post-baccalaureate work in the LoNG, Devin is now working on a PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of New Mexico.

Adam Gorka, PhD

Adam completed his PhD in the LoNG in 2015. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Section for the Neurobiology of Fear and Anxiety at the NIMH working with Drs. Christian Grillon and Monique Ernst.

 

Yuliya Nikolova, PhD

Yuliya finished her PhD in the LoNG in Spring 2014 and currently works as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Etienne Sibille's lab at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada, where she studies the molecular mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorder risk. Although she loves Toronto so far, she misses the LoNG and North Carolina weather.

 

Fredrik Ahs, PhD

Fredrik received his PhD from Uppsala University in Sweden. He did a post doc in the LaBar lab colaborating with the Laboratory of NeuroGenetics. He is currently working as a research assistant professor at Uppsala University in Sweden.

 

Caroline Davis, PhD

Caroline received her PhD from Dartmouth college before working as a postdoc in the Laboratory of NeuroGenetics. She is now a research fellow at Harvard Medical School.

 

Ryan Bogdan, PhD

Ryan received his PhD from Harvard University beforing working as a postdoc in the Laboratory of NeuroGenetics. He is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Washington University.

 

Luke W. Hyde, PhD

Luke received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. He is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

 

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Jared Minkel, PhD

Jared is currently studying effects of psychopathology on prefrontal cortical functioning during goal directed behavior as a postdoc with Sharon Thompson-Schill at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he is continuing his work with the LoNG on how individual differences in sleep influence neural responses to emotional responses and emotion regulation.

 

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Justin Carre, PhD

Justin received his Ph.D. at Brock University and did a postdoc at Duke University in the Laboratory of NeuroGenetics. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University and continues to examine the neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying variation in human aggressive behavior.

 

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Vanessa Sochat, BA

Vanessa parted with her role as Research Technician for the LoNG in 2011. She is now a PhD student in the Biomedical Informatics program at Stanford University.

 

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Kristin McNealy, PhD

Kristin received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles while studying the neural basis of language learning in childhood and adolescence. She is now a managing editor at John Wiley & Sons.

Patrick Fisher, PhD

Patrick received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2010. He is currently a Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Gitte Knudsen in Copenhagen.