Principal Investigator

Brian Galla, PhD

Associate Professor, Health and Human Development

Research Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center

Secondary Appointment, Cognitive Psychology

HHD Faculty Page LRDC Faculty Page Cognitive Psychology Faculty Page Brian's Google Scholar Open Science Framework

Postdocs

Tessa Benson-Greenwald, PhD (Social Psychology, Indiana University '22)

Postdoctoral Associate, Learning Research and Development Center

Tessa's Google Scholar Tessa's website

Doctoral Students

Michael Tumminia, MS (Applied Developmental Psychology, University of Pittsburgh '21)

PhD Candidate, Applied Developmental Psychology, Health and Human Development

Graduate Student Researcher, Learning Research and Development Center

Michael's CV Michael's Google Scholar Michael's ResearchGate

Angie Griffo, BS (Psychology, University of Pittsburgh '19)

Graduate Student, Cognitive Psychology

Graduate Student Researcher, Learning Research and Development Center

Undergraduate Students

Jiaxiong (Irvin) Li (Senior at the University of Pittsburgh '25)

BPhil Degree Candidate, Applied Developmental Psychology, minor in Secondary Teacher Education, Health and Human Development

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Learning Research and Development Center

Lab Alumni

Doctoral Students
Hiba Abujaradeh, PhD (Nursing ‘21)
Afton Kirk-Johnson, PhD (Applied Developmental Psychology ‘21)
Rebecca Meacham, PhD (Applied Developmental Psychology ‘20)
Jamie Amemiya, PhD (Psychology ‘19)

Master’s Students
Brandon Baun, MS (Applied Developmental Psychology ‘19)
Kristen Hinshaw, MS (Applied Developmental Psychology ‘23)
Aishwarya Karanam, MS (Applied Developmental Psychology ‘24)

Research Coordinators
Dalia Maeroff, BPhil (University of Pittsburgh, Psychology ‘23)
Tyree Langley, BA (SUNY Buffalo, Psychology ‘22)
Mcnoah Vinoya, BA (University of California, Davis ‘21)
Sara Jahanian, BS (Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics ‘19)
Hannah Fiore, BS (Denison University ‘16)

Visting Scholars
Theresa Schnettler, MS (University of Bielefeld, Germany), January-February 2020

Undergraduate Research Assistants
Jovan Corrales, BS (Psychology ‘24)
Zihui Zhang, BS (Applied Developmental Psychology ‘24)
Kayla Tupper, BS (Psychology ‘22)
Nicole El Hayek, BS (Psychology ‘22)
Jordann Antoan, BS (Rehabilitation Science ‘22)
Kelly Lombardi, BS (Psychology ‘21)
Jessica Giuffrida, BS (Applied Developmental Psychology ‘21)
Amy Adelman, BS (Rehabilitation Science ‘19)
Gillian Murphy, BS (Applied Developmental Psychology ‘19)
Mira Patel, BS (Neuroscience ‘17)