Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Katie Paige | [email protected]
Katie J. Paige, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan Addiction Center in the Department of Psychiatry. Her research uses a developmental psychopathology framework to understand the development, and sequelae, of adolescent substance use. Specifically, she is interested in the impact of adolescent substance use, and the broader context of problem behavior and social relationships, on the development of executive functioning. Additionally, her research aims to improve the measurement of executive functioning through application of longitudinal methods and computational modeling.
Dr. Jules R. Dugré | [email protected]
Jules R. Dugré, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Michigan Neurogenetics and Developmental Psychopathology Lab at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social, Cognitive, Affective & Neuroscience Lab at the University of Birmingham, UK. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Montreal in 2023, following a B.A. and M.Sc. in Criminology. His doctoral research investigated the heterogeneity of neurocognitive deficits observed in antisocial populations. His research interests broadly span from mapping the neurobiology of antisocial populations to identifying developmental trajectories of youth at risk for conduct disorder. He currently serves as one of the co-chairs of the ENIGMA-Antisocial Behavior Working Group, which involves numerous international cohorts. Using cutting-edge methodological approaches, he aims to provide a novel framework for understanding brain-behavior relationships, specifically regarding conduct problems.
Graduate Students
Heidi Westerman | [email protected]
Heidi is a sixth-year graduate student in the Clinical Science Ph.D. program. Heidi received a BA in neuroscience and biology from Wesleyan University in 2017. After graduating, she spent two years working as a data manager in the MiND Lab. Heidi is interested in the impact of environmental and genetic interactions on reward processes that may lead to later substance use and externalizing psychopathology.
Joe Morales Guzman | [email protected]
Joe is a sixth-year student in the Clinical Science Ph.D. program. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from UCLA, where he continued working for two years as a research coordinator at TIES for Families and a volunteer research assistant at SCAN lab. He studied pre and postnatal adversity and child and adolescent development, as well as psychophysiological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying atypical sensory processing in high-risk groups of children. Joe is interested in the biological embedding of early adversity and developmental psychopathology. Specifically, he is interested in how differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning and its effector hormone, cortisol, influence brain development and antisocial behavior.
Jessica Bezek | [email protected]
Jessica is a sixth-year graduate student in the Clinical Science Ph.D. program. She graduated from Vassar College in 2019 with a B.A. in Neuroscience and a minor in Spanish. She spent two years working as a post-baccalaureate research fellow with Dr. Daniel Pine at the National Institute of Mental Health, where she studied neurocognitive mechanisms of anxiety in youth. Jessica is interested in studying the neural and environmental pathways supporting resilience in youth who have experienced early life adversity. She is especially interested in using neuroimaging and structural equation modeling approaches, with an emphasis on examining risk factors and protective mechanisms implicated in the development of risk-taking behaviors and externalizing psychopathology.
Cleanthis Michael | [email protected]
Cleanthis is a sixth-year graduate student in the Clinical Science Ph.D. program. Cleanthis graduated from University College London in 2019 with a B.Sc. in Psychology. After graduation, he worked as a post-baccalaureate research assistant in Dr. Jessica Cohen’s lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied brain network development in children with ADHD. Cleanthis is interested in how adversity and disadvantage interact with the plasticity of the developing brain to influence cognitive and emotional development and mental health across childhood and adolescence. He is particularly interested in applying connectivity analyses to characterize how brain networks adapt to stressful and protective environments to confer risk and resilience across development.
Natasha Jones | [email protected]
Natasha is a second-year graduate student in the Clinical Science Ph.D. program. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2022 with a B.A. in Psychology. Natasha then spent three years working in the MiND lab as the data manager for the MTwiNS project and studied neurocognitive developmental trajectories and brain aging in adolescence. In graduate school, she is interested in examining neurocognitive development in adolescence and how this may be influenced by adversity exposure. She is ultimately interested in how these processes shape risk or resilience for psychopathology in adolescence.
Isabel Aks| [email protected]
Isabel is a second-year graduate student in the Clinical Science Ph.D. program. She graduated in 2023 from University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and a Specialization in Computing. She spent two years as a post-baccalaureate staff research assistant at University of California, San Diego, studying parenting under Dr. William Pelham and co-occurring trauma and substance use under Dr. Herry Patel. Isabel is interested in how parenting and adversity shape youth neurodevelopment and externalizing behavior.
