Kate Mills
Kate leads the Developing Brains in Context Lab. She is a first generation student from Louisville KY and received her PhD from University College London in 2015. Her favorite part of science is working with good people to figure out things about development. CV
Lucy Whitmore
Lucy Whitmore is a graduate student and former lab manager of the Developing Brains in Context Lab. She is interested in how adolescents create flexible behavioral strategies to navigate the world around them, and how these strategies might be affected by external factors. You can read Lucy’s most recent empirical on BrainAGE as a measure of brain maturation in adolescence here! Lucy is also excited about science communication and outreach, and working closely with adolescents to answer the questions they’re interested in. CV
Amala Someshwar
Amala is a developmental psychology PhD student in the DBIC lab, the DSN lab, and the PIE lab. In 2018 she graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Amala is interested in understanding the impacts of the socioemotional environment of adolescents both on development and the onset of psychopathology as well as the role of personality in dyadic relationships during adolescence. Outside of lab, she enjoys swimming, climbing, embroidery, and knitting. CV
Fiona DeBernardi
Fiona is a graduate student in the social-personality psychology department. In 2022, she graduated from U.C. Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Her research focuses on how people think and make decisions about moral issues like climate change and dishonesty. She is interested in how insights from moral psychology can enhance understanding of children’s empathic concern for the environment. She is also involved in the open-science community and is passionate about making science openly available and accessible. In her spare time, she likes looking for amphibians and hiking!
Analise Levy
Analise is an undergraduate student at the University of Oregon (class of 2025) majoring in Psychology and participating in the Clark Honors College 3+3 Law Program. She is conducting research under the guidance of Kate Mills to ultimately defend her honors thesis regarding Oregon’s juvenile transfer waiver and its rationale in relation to developmental literature in Neuroscience and Psychology. She hopes that with this research she can help to advance the discussion for active improvements and changes to this waiver.
Alumni
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