People

Delaney Ignace

I am a current sophomore at Harvard College concentrating in History and Science with a secondary in Psychology. At the Stress and Development Lab, I work on the STAR Study as a research assistant. I am interested in research on Adverse Childhood...

Jessica Jenness, Ph.D.

Acting Assistant Professor

Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington

Lily Jensen, BPhill

Research Coordinator

Lily (she/her) graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2022 with a Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil) in Psychology and minors in Applied Statistics and Studio Arts. While in undergrad, she started her research career interning for a small startup...

Geneva Jost

Master's Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Geneva is a current master’s student in the Human Development and Psychology Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her undergraduate work in cardiac development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill inspired her love for...

Steven Kasparek

swkasparek@g.harvard.edu

(he/they series)

Graduate Student

Personal Background: Steven (he/they series) is a second-year Ph.D. student in the clinical science area. He was born and raised in Ferguson, Missouri and around other parts of the greater St. Louis area. Steven is a first-generation college graduate and...

Sameer Khan

Research Assistant

Undergraduate

Sameer Khan is a current sophomore at Harvard College, concentrating in the History of Science with a secondary in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights. As a research assistant in the Stress & Development Lab, Sameer contributes to the Observing Children’s...

Gyuri Kim

Grace Kim

Research Assistant

Post-bac

Grace Kim graduated from Emory University in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics. She is currently a Master’s student in the Human Development and Psychology program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. At the Stress and Development Lab...

Hilary Lambert

Post-Doctoral Fellow

McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Rachel Levin (she/her)

Research Assistant

Post-bac

Rachel Levin (she/her) graduated from Williams College in 2019 with a B.A. in Psychology. She currently works as a clinical research coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital on studies examining short-term risk factors for suicide and self-harm in...

Lucy Lurie

Graduate Student

CIRCLE Lab, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Laura Machlin

lmachlin@fas.harvard.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Laura Machlin received her BA in Psychology from Wesleyan University in 2013. In 2022, she completed her Ph.D. in Psychology & Neuroscience in the Clinical Psychology program under the mentorship of Dr. Margaret Sheridan. She completed her clinical...