Meet Our Team
Principal Investigator
Susan B. Perlman, Ph.D.
Lab Director
Dr. Susan B. Perlman is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine and the director of the LCBD. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 in Psychology and her M.A. (2006) and Ph.D. (2009) from Duke University in Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. She is primarily interested in the neural underpinnings of the development of emotion regulation in young children including trajectories of abnormal emotion regulation and related psychopathology.
Postdoctoral Research Associates
KHALIL THOMPSON
Postdoctoral Research Associate
see bio
Kirk Graff
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Graduate Students
Claire Soogyeong Ju
Graduate Student
Research Staff
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Lizzy Kulick
Maya Dieterle
Nicholas Cloney
Rebecca Schaff
Ronak Chandiwala
Ryan Hillery
Shri Jeyaram
Hannah Crawford
Sydney Jennings
Tej Bhoga
Current Collaborators
Anna Marsland, Ph.D. Website
Cheryl McNeil, Ph.D. Website
Deepu Murty, Ph.D. Website
Helmet Karim, Ph.D. Website
Joan Luby, M.D. Website
Kirsten Gilbert, Ph.D. Website
Koraly Perez-Edgar, Ph.D. Website
Lauren Wakschlag, Ph.D. Website
Nadine Melhem, Ph.D. Website
Lab Alumni
Dr. Yanwei Li, Ph.D.
Nanjing Xiaozhuang University
Dr. Adam Grabell, Ph.D. Website
Tyler Hein, Ph.D.
Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Dept of Veterans Affairs
Keya Ding, M.A., Ph.D candidate
Southeast University, China
Christina Hlutkowsky, B.S.
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student at Penn State
Lizzi Williams, B.A.
ABA Masters Degree student at Rollins University in Orlando, FL
Jenna Chin, B.A.
Developmental Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Denver
Emily Furtado, B.A.
Clinical Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota
Emma Goldberg, B.A.
Counseling Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas
Justin Lopez, B.A.
Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at Washington University St. Louis
Sarah Cole, B.A.
Health Science in Mental Health Masters candidate at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Alcess Nonot, B.A.
Research Coordinator at the Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health (ARCH) at University of Washington Seattle
Shreeja Vachhani, B.A.
Social Work Masters candidate at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Amanda Cramer, B.A.
Clinical Psychology Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Mexico
