# Alumni ## expand\_more [### Abid Qureshi ](/people/abid-qureshi)Post-Doctoral Fellow Abid was in a post-residency fellowship in Cognitive Neurology at BWH. He received his medical degree from the University of Missouri – Kansas City and completed his Neurology residency at Johns Hopkins University. Abid’s research interests were in the... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_1.05.24_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_1.05.24_pm.png?itok=6-sOMQ7w) [### Anna Riekmann ](/people/anna-riekmann)Post-Doctoral Fellow Anna’s main research interest was in understanding the role of dopamine in human cognition and disease. She used both PET and fMRI to explore whether changes in the integrity of the dopamine system across the adult lifespan contribute to age-related... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.52.07_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.52.07_am.png?itok=SPYJYWpB) [### Arpi Youssoufian ](/people/arpi-youssoufian)Research Assistant Arpi was a Research Assistant in the Buckner Lab. She graduated from Barnard College in 2016 with a BA in Biology, and in 2017 from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with an Ed.M. in Mind, Brain, and Education, focusing on adolescent development... person [### Avram Holmes ](/people/avram-holmes) Asst Professor of Psychology Avram Holmes is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University . Avram’s research program explores the biological pathways that give rise to individual variability in emotional reactivity, with a particular focus on the intersection of emotion... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.18.58_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.18.58_pm.png?itok=JvzxOuOK) [### Aya Hamadeh ](/people/aya-hamadeh) Post Doctoral Fellow Aya completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Buckner lab. She received her medical degree at the American University of Beirut after completing her MSc in Clinical Neuroscience at University College London and then working as a research assistant at... ![screen_shot_2022-02-28_at_10.10.55_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-02-28_at_10.10.55_am.png?itok=o7MiKIHz) [### Constanza (Cony) M. Vidal Bustamante ](/people/constanza-cony-m-vidal-bustamante) Graduate Student Cony is a Ph.D. student in the Cognition, Brain and Behavior program of the Psychology Department. She grew up in Chile, and moved to the United States to complete her undergraduate studies at Harvard College, where she received a B.A. in Psychology. She... ![screen_shot_2022-02-28_at_10.42.13_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-02-28_at_10.42.13_am.png?itok=jjDTz-pM) [### Daisy Wang ](/people/daisy-wang)Instructor of Radiology Daisy’s research focused on individual differences in brain function. She had been studying broad properties of functional specialization of the human cerebral cortex and cerebellum. She also studied functional network structure at the level of the... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.31.15_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.31.15_am.png?itok=p6hfxVbB) [### Daniel Reznik ](/people/daniel-reznik)Post-Doctoral Fellow Daniel received his PhD in Neuroscience from Tel-Aviv University where he examined the relationship between volition and perception. Now he is interested in investigating how healthy and pathological subjects acquire a model of the environment and... person [### Elizabeth Beam ](/people/elizabeth-beam)Research Assistant Elizabeth Beam graduated from Duke University in 2013 with a BS in Neuroscience, a BA in English, and a minor in Chemistry. Her undergraduate research mapped the network structure of neuroanatomical and psychological terms in the literature of cognitive... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.48.18_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.48.18_pm.png?itok=aha0Prad) [### Emily Shaw ](/people/emily-shaw)Research Assistant Emily Shaw was a Research Assistant in both the Buckner Lab and Sperling Lab. She graduated from Rhodes College in 2013 with a B.S. in Neuroscience and a minor in Religious Studies. As a neuroimaging R.A. , she performed scans for the Human Connectome... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.42.18_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.42.18_am.png?itok=zDcr4iAX) [### Emily Iannazzi ](/people/emily-iannazzi) Research Assistant Emily was a Research Assistant in the Buckner Lab. She graduated from Boston College in 2019 with a BA in Psychology and a Clinical Concentration. She worked for several years at Dr. Maureen Ritchey’s Memory Modulation Lab where she studied cognitive and... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_4.05.10_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_4.05.10_pm.png?itok=oaHIB7aY) [### Erin Lee Phlegar ](/people/erin-lee-phlegar)Research Assistant Erin Phlegar was a Research Assistant in the Buckner Lab. She graduated from Middlebury College in 2016 with a BA in Neuroscience. Erin was working on the deep dynamic phenotyping projects. Previously, she worked in Dr. Mark George’s Brain Stimulation... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_1.09.27_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_1.09.27_pm.png?itok=BIs9XMO7) [### Francesca Davy-Falconi ](/people/francesca-davy-falconi) Research Assistant Francesca was a Research Assistant in the Buckner Lab. In 2021, she received her BA in Philosophy & Neuroscience from Boston University. During her undergraduate career, she researched the biological mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease, as well as... ![screen_shot_2022-02-14_at_10.31.12_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-02-14_at_10.31.12_am.png?itok=VaBMrZNr) [### Garth Coombs ](/people/garth-coombs) Graduate Student Garth was a Ph.D. student in the Cognition, Brain, and Behavior program of the Psychology Department. He used a deep individual phenotyping approach to understand how real-world fluctuations in mood, stress, and sleep interact and affect brain function... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.33.47_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.33.47_pm.png?itok=3KavFtwf) [### Hannah Becker ](/people/hannah-becker) [hannah\_becker@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:hannah_becker@fas.harvard.edu)Research Assistant Hannah was a Research Assistant in the Buckner Lab. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 with a BA in the Cognitive Neuroscience track of the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program. She spent the majority of her undergraduate... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.46.45_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.46.45_pm.png?itok=n1CeRid9) [### Heather Kosakowski ](/people/heather-kosakowski) Postdoctoral Fellow Heather was a postdoctoral fellow in the Buckner Lab. Her work in the Buckner Lab was focused on how networks associated with the ventral tegmental area and ventral striatum function and interact with networks that span association cortices. As a Ph.D... ![thumbnail_kosakowski03.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/thumbnail_kosakowski03.png?itok=gvmgFWTh) [### Helen Piltner ](/people/helen-piltner) Undergraduate Student Helen Piltner was an undergraduate student in Adams House concentrating in neuroscience on the honors Mind, Brain, & Behavior track. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of neuroscience, technology, and business. She has worked as a data analyst... ![Helen Piltner Profile Picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/dsc_2533r_crop_2.jpg?itok=QOewq7Cy) [### Hesheng Liu ](/people/hesheng-liu) Asst Professor of Radiology Hesheng Liu is SmartState Chair Professor of Neuroscience at the Medical University of South Carolina and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on developing novel neuroimaging and computational tools to reveal... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_4.07.58_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_4.07.58_pm.png?itok=QHsBv5It) [### Isabella Shaw ](/people/isabella-shaw) Undergraduate Student Isabella was an undergraduate student studying Neurobiology on the Mind, Brain, and Behavior track, with a secondary study in Global Health and Health Policy. Her interests include human memory and neurodegenerative diseases. In the Buckner Lab, she is... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_4.02.42_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_4.02.42_pm.png?itok=1oBGysH7) [### Jared Nielsen ](/people/jared-nielsen) Post-Doctoral Fellow Jared researched the neural correlates of anxiety across psychiatric disorders. He also researched how functional specialization of the cerebral cortex is affected in individuals with a genetic predisposition to autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.11.25_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.11.25_pm.png?itok=rSbZvS4D) [### Jisoo (Lily) Jeong ](/people/jisoo-lily-jeong) Lily was a Data Analyst in the Buckner Lab and the Massachusetts General Hospital. She graduated from Stony Brook University in 2014 with a BSc, and is pursuing a M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. Lily worked with the... person [### Joanna Ladopoulou ](/people/joanna-ladopoulou) Research Assistant Joanna is a Research Assistant in the Buckner Laboratory. She graduated from Harvard College in 2020 with a degree in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. As an undergraduate student, she conducted research on plant evolutionary development and also... ![joanna-photo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/joanna-photo.jpg?itok=Aw276Nm_) [### Jordan Eyassu ](/people/jordan-eyassu) Undergraduate Student Jordan Eyassu was a student at Boston University studying cell and molecular biology with a specialization in genetics. Jordan's fascination with the complexities of women's health has shaped her aspirations to specialize in obstetrics/gynecology someday... ![Jordan Eyassu Profile Picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/eesaphotocropped.jpg?itok=x0v8leY0) [### Jorge Sepulcre ](/people/jorge-sepulcre) Asst Professor of Radiology Jorge Sepulcre was a faculty member at the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. His research focused on brain imaging studies aiming at the understanding of large-scale brain networks... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.47.52_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.47.52_am.png?itok=qIQl1WFu) [### Justin Baker ](/people/justin-baker) Instructor of Psychiatry Justin Baker is a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Research Concentration Program for the MGH / McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program. His research focuses on brain... ![screen_shot_2022-02-28_at_10.50.55_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-02-28_at_10.50.55_am.png?itok=yDRNqz2d) [### Katherine Miclau ](/people/katherine-miclau) Undergraduate Student Katherine was an undergraduate student in the Mind, Brain and Behavior track of Neurobiology. Her interests include how disruption of brain function contributes to disease. In previous work, she studied the influence of traumatic brain injuries on... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.13.52_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_2.13.52_pm.png?itok=RiJrdB-L) [### Kayla Ntoh ](/people/kayla-ntoh-0) Research Assistant Kayla was a research assistant in the Buckner Laboratory. She graduated in 2020 from Amherst College with a B.A. in Psychology. She has worked in a Neuroscience lab where she studied GABA mutations in zebrafish, and she has done Orthopedic research as... ![screen_shot_2022-02-14_at_10.09.17_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-02-14_at_10.09.17_am.png?itok=-CEleKl3) [### Kevin Anderson ](/people/kevin-anderson)Post-Doctoral Fellow Kevin was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Buckner Lab. He is interested in how individual differences in brain organization and function emerge from genetic variation, with a focus on understanding changes across the lifespan. Kevin completed his doctoral... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_4.00.19_pm.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_4.00.19_pm.png?itok=HkC1RoSH) [### Koene Van Dijk ](/people/koene-van-dijk)Instructor of Radiology Koene Van Dijk was an instructor in Radiology at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. He was interested in normal and pathological human brain aging, Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, large scale neuronal networks, white... ![screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.36.27_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum9456/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/cnlbuckner/files/screen_shot_2022-06-29_at_11.36.27_am.png?itok=qjQExs29) [### Laura Farfel ](/people/laura-farfel)Research Assistant Laura was a Research Coordinator in the Buckner Lab and managed research exploring deep phenotyping in individual participants involving in-depth study of real-world behaviors and change of brain states over time in healthy individuals. She also... person [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/alumni/alumni)