Alumni
Notable Alumni
Alexandria West
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University
Amanda Williams
Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Bristol
Anudhi Munasinghe
Research Scientist, Western Governors University
Becky Choma
Faculty, Toronto Metropolitan University
Chanel Meyers
Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
Curtis Phills
Assistant Profesor, University of North Florida
David Sidhu
Assistant Professor, Carleton University
Elena Canadas
Scientific Affairs Manager, Akili Interactive
Elysia Vaccarino
Social Psychology Course Instructor, Toronto, ON
Francine Karmali
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Justin Friesen
Associate Professor, University of Winnipeg
Kyle Nash
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
Kunalan Manokara
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
Larissa Vingilis-Jaremko
Founder & President, Canadian Association for Girls in Science (CAGIS)
Madeline Nickel
Ph.D Candidate, City University of New York
Meghan George
Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University
Nikki Mann
Director, Research & Evaluation at Jewish Family & Child Assistant
Ronda Lo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Xia Fang
Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University
Past Lab Members
Undergraduate research assistants in our lab have gone onto graduate programs including (but not limited to): academic research in psychology (MA and PhD), academic research in other fields (e.g., microbiology and immunology, neuroscience, epidemiology), counselling, dentistry, law, medicine, speech therapy, and teacher’s college
2024-2025
Back row (L-R): Grayson Hou (Independent Research Project Student), Hannah Tran (Graduate Student), Corey Petsnik (Postdoctoral Fellow), Kerry Kawakami (Principal Investigator), Kaiwen (Kev) Zhou (Graduate Student), Courtney Chan (Graduate Student), Evelyn Ma (Research Assistant) | Front row (L-R): Hatice Baydar (Research Assistant), Ganeev Raina (Research Assistant), Moonhyoung Choi (Research Assistant), Liana Coutinho (Undergraduate Lab Manager), Vi Vo (Honours Thesis Student), Judy Chan (Research Assistant), Toula Kountouros (Research Assistant), Ryan Hooshiar (Undergraduate Lab Manager) | Missing: Mara Georgescu (Research Assistant), Andy Huang (Research Assistant), Viktoriya Kolyekhova (Research Assistant)
2023-2024
Back row (L-R): Courtney Chan (Graduate Student), Kerry Kawakami (Principal Investigator), Zoe Fargnoli Brown (Graduate Student), Zhanyi (Cynthia) Huang (Independent Research Project Student) | Middle row (L-R): Robert Filipchuk (Research Assistant), Taylor Alves (Research Assistant), Kaiwen (Kev) Zhou (Graduate Student), Hannah Tran (Graduate Student), Rita Bishara (Undergraduate Lab Manager), Mohamed Mohamed (Independent Research Project Student), Jora Flora (Research Assistant) | Front row (L-R): Raquel Andary (Independent Research Project Student), Souela Sadrouddin (Research Assistant), Liana Coutinho (Research Assistant), Amanda Di Pietrantonio (Research Assistant), Parker Grant (Independent Research Project Student), Shivam Desai (Undergraduate Lab Manager), Kunalan Manokara (Postdoctoral Fellow)
2022-2023
Back row (L-R): Jora Flora (Research Assistant), Courtney Chan (Graduate Student), Emily Bissada (Graduate Student), Kerry Kawakami (Principal Investigator), Zoe Fargnoli Brown (Graduate Student), Zhanyi (Cynthia) Huang (Research Assistant) | Middle row (L-R): Hannah Tran (Graduate Student), Shivam Desai (Research Assistant), Charlie Bo (Research Assistant), Harman Bajwa (Research Assistant), Parker Grant (Research Assistant), Miguel Gaspar (Research Assistant), Kaiwen (Kev) Zhou (Graduate Student), Afnan Musa (Independent Research Project Student) | Front row (L-R): Raquel Andary (Honours Thesis Student), Rita Bishara (Undergraduate Lab Manager), Ronda Lo (Affiliated Graduate Student), Elysia Vaccarino (Graduate Student) | Missing: Alyssa Drennan (Research Assistant), Hannah Mugford (Research Assistant), Robert Filipchuk (Research Assistant), Souela Sodrouddin (Research Assistant)
2019-2020
In order of seniority: Kerry Kawakami (Principal Investigator), Chanel Meyers (Postdoctoral Fellow), Xia Fang (Postdoctoral Fellow), Elysia Vaccarino (Graduate Student), Madeline Nickel (Graduate Student), Meghan George (Affiliated Graduate Student), Amanda Delaine Penner (Research Assistant), Michal Khotyakov (Research Assistant), Elvin Lu (Research Assistant), Alexandra Markwell (Research Volunteer), Harmoni Monique Watson (Research Volunteer), Kimia Dadgarian Shoushtari (Research Volunteer), Laura Marie Bandi (Research Volunteer), Markeesha Clarke (Research Volunteer), Martina Moravcikova (Research Volunteer), Natalya Joanna Palladino (Research Volunteer), Nawang Yanga (Research Volunteer), Parisa Sharif Esfahani (Research Volunteer), Shumaila Ahmad (Research Volunteer), Royze Simon (Research Volunteer), Emre Kocak (Research Volunteer)