Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
Adolfo Cuadra
PhD, 1999, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
BA, 1994, The City College of New York
PI: Jacquie Kurland
Carolina den Hartog
Marcela Fernandez-Peters
PhD, 2016, Cornell University
MSc, 2006, University of Missouri-St. Louis
BSc, 2002, Universidad de Costa Rica
Research Interests: Auditory neuroscience and neuroendocrinology
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Ahren Fitzroy
PhD, 2013, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Neuroscience and Behavior
Postdoctoral fellowship, 2013-2015m Northwestern University
Research Interests: Interested in how auditory learning shifts from transient changes in listening to more durable changes in the auditory system, from initial attentional modulation of cortical perception through sleep-dependent memory consolidation and eventually long-term changes in the auditory brainstem and cortex.
Position:
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UMass Amherst (PI: Rebecca Spencer)
Postdoctoral Research Associate / Visiting Lecturer, Department of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College (PI: Mara Breen)
Bethany Jones
Research Interests: I am interested in the neural processes by which sleep changes memory representations and how factors such as aging and emotional salience affect these processes.
Position:
May 2013-present, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cognition and Action Lab (PI: Dr. Rebecca Spencer), Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Paula J. Moura
Ph.D.: General Physiology
Research Interests: Project focuses on how circadian signals are integrated with steroid signals to initiate the preovulatory surge of luteinizing hormone release.
Position:
Jully 2009-present Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences (Laboratory of Sandra Petersen) University of Massachusetts Amherst
Desmond Ramirez
PhD, 2016, UC Santa Barbara
MSc, 2009, Michigan State University
BA, 2004, Reed College
PI: Paul S. Katz
Research Interests: Current research draws from the fields of animal behavior, neuroethology and molecular evolution to understand 1) how animals behave, 2) the underlying neural and genetic basis of those behaviors, and 3) the evolutionary history of those component mechanisms.
David Ross
Research Interests: Working on combining computational and imaging methods to constrain and advance models of visual recognition and memory.
Position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (PI: Dr. Rosie Cowell)
Emily S. Rothwell
PhD, 2018 University of California-Davis
BA, 2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Interests: Aging, cognition, hormones, non-human primate models
Position:
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences (PI: Dr. Agnes Lacreuse)
Jeremy Spool
PhD, 2018, University of Wisconsin, Madison
BSc, 2013, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: the neuroendocrine basis and evolution of social behaviors
Position:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
PI: Luke Remage-Healey
Cheyenne Tait
PhD, 2019, University of Notre Dame
AB, 2012, Princeton University
Research Interests: The neural and hormonal mechanisms underlying animal behavior
Position:
Post Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Biology (PI: Paul S. Katz)
