Lab Members
Doctoral Students
Pazia Miller
Pazia is a first year doctoral candidate at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University. She graduated from Barnard College with a BA in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies in 2014, from Hunter College with a MSEd in adolescent special education in 2016, and completed post-baccalaureate coursework in psychology at the City University of New York in 2019. Prior to pursuing psychology, she worked for five years as a middle and high school special education teacher where she built therapeutic classrooms utilizing ASD Nest strategies, harm reduction, and a school-based dialectical behavior therapy program. Pazia has worked as a research assistant in the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Lab at Columbia University (PI: Dr. Nim Tottenham) and as a clinical research coordinator at the Neuropsychoimaging of Addiction and Related Conditions Lab at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (PI: Dr. Rita Goldstein), where she managed lab finances, grant and IRB submissions, facilitated data collection, and administered EEGs and neuropsychiatric assessments. Pazia is studying how altered states of consciousness, specifically mystical psychedelic experiences, may facilitate prosocial behavior. |
Student Affiliates
Emily Chassman Emily Chassman is a first-year doctoral candidate at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Trinity College before earning her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Chassman has previously worked as a research coordinator at the NYU School of Medicine WTC Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence (NYUSOM CCE) which provides medical and psychiatric services to World Trade Center responders and conducts clinical research to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical interventions. Chassman also has research experience evaluating imminent suicide risk in high-risk individuals and studying suicide and self-injury among adolescents and young adults. Chassman is interested in studying how therapeutic alliance contributes to treatment outcomes. Curriculum vitae |
Samantha Goldman
Samantha Goldman is a first year student pursuing a PhD in clinical psychology at Adelphi University. She received a bachelors of science in Psychology and a minor in Behavioral Neuroscience from Northeastern University in 2018, and spent the two following years as a research assistant studying maternal health and development at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, and the Miriam Hospital. She is particularly interested in psychological research as it pertains to issues of social justice. |
Yuanruo Xu
Yuanruo received her B.A. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University in 2019 and is currently a PhD student in the Derner School of Psychology. Her research interests are multicultural psychology and cultural competency in clinical practice, including Asian Americans; global mental health and participation in clinical trials; schizophrenia: influencing factors and cognitive rehabilitation. LinkedIn profile Curriculum vitae |
Former Members
Yiming Yuan M.A., 2021
Usama Bhatti M.A., 2020)