Our Team

Current TeamCollaboratorsAlumni

Current Team Members:

Rebecca
Rebecca Waller

Director

rwaller@sas.upenn.edu
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Rista
Rista Plate (she/her)

Post-doctoral Researcher

rplate@sas.upenn.edu
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Yael
Yael Paz

Post-doctoral Researcher

yaelpa@sas.upenn.edu
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Emily Perkins

Post-doctoral Researcher

perkinse@sas.upenn.edu,
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Samantha
Samantha Perlstein

Graduate Student

sperl@sas.upenn.edu
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Kristin Murtha

Graduate Student

krmurtha@sas.upenn.edu,
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Lucia
Lucia Hernandez Pena

Visiting Graduate Student

lhernandez@ukaachen.de
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Yuhiery
Yuheiry Rodriguez

Senior Research Coordinator

yuheiry@sas.upenn.edu
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Michaela
Michaela Flum (she/her)

Research Specialist

flum@sas.upenn.edu
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Ayomide
Ayomide Popoola (she/her)

Research Specialist

popoolaa@sas.upenn.edu
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Sherry
Sherry Zhang (she/they)

Research Specialist

shezhang@sas.upenn.edu
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Lauren Huang (she/her)

Social Media/Communications Specialist

lauren17@wharton.upenn.edu
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Theodora
Theodora Athanitis

Research Assistant

tathani2@sas.upenn.edu
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Sydney
Sydney Sun

Research Assistant

sydsun@sas.upenn.edu
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Mahaa
Mahaa Ayub

Research Assistant

mahaayub@sas.upenn.edu
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Kayla
Kayla Malone

Research Assistant

kayla25@upenn.edu
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Erin
Erin Brown

Research Assistant

erbr@sas.upenn.edu
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Chloe
Chloe Katz

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Research Assistant

chloek9@sas.upenn.edu
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Chinyelu
Chinyelu Ojukwu

Research Assistant

cojukwu@sas.upenn.edu
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Allison
Allison Stillman

Research Assistant

stills02@sas.upenn.edu
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Caitlyn Kim

Research Assistant

kcaitlyn@sas.upenn.edu
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Sophia Nehme

Research Assistant

nehme@upenn.edu
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Liesl Dentinger
Liesl Dentinger

Research Assistant

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Helena Saven

Research Assistant

hqsaven@sas.upenn.edu
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Collaborators:

Mindcore
Center for Outreach, Research, and Education (mindCORE)
Base
Biobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development Lab (BASE)
CHOP
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Perelman
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Center for Autism Research

Alumni:

Abigail Presti

Alexis Broussard

Alina Mizrahi

Beatriz Dominguez Alvarez

Brin Gammer

Callie Jones

Carly Miron

Christina Steele

Donnisa Edmonds

Edie Graber

Emily Hong

Emma Satlof-Bedrick

Grace Daley

Hanna Lembcke

Jennifer Kwon

Joshua Steinberg

Julia Pearson

Katherine All

Lia Broderick

Maddie Fair

Maia Chester

Maya Ifkin-Ofer

Melissa Murin

Natalie Corbett

Quentin Wedderburn

Samia El-Erian

Sim Kohli

Sonia Reardon

Sylvia Zhao

Tiffany Schell

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