People
Principal Investigator
Randy L Buckner
randy_buckner@harvard.eduProfessor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Randy is the Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience at Harvard University affiliated with the Center for Brain Science and Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also on...
Postdoctoral Fellows
Adam Stark
astark3@mgb.orgPsychiatry Resident
Adam is a psychiatry resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He completed an MD at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he had the opportunity to develop experience with structural, functional, and molecular imaging to better characterize...
Anne Billot
abillot@mgh.harvard.eduPostdoctoral Fellow
Anne is a postdoctoral fellow in the Buckner Lab. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from Boston University where she worked with Prof. Swathi Kiran and Prof. Evelina Fedorenko on the neuroplasticity of the language network in people with post-stroke...
Elham el Hallak
elhamelhallak@fas.harvard.eduPostdoctoral Fellow
Elham is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Buckner Lab. She earned her MD from the American University of Beirut and an MSc in Human Tissue Repair from University College London. She’s interested in research focusing on early detection and treatment of...
Jingnan Du
jingnandu@fas.harvard.eduPostdoctoral Fellow
Jingnan is a postdoctoral fellow in the Buckner lab, where he studies how higher-order cognitive functions are organized in the human association cortex. By combining precision neuroimaging with novel computational approaches, he recently explored the...
Setayesh Radkani
Postdoctoral Fellow
Setayesh’s research focuses on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying social learning and decision-making. During her PhD at MIT, she combined behavioral experiments and computational modeling to investigate how adults and children...
Yiren Ren
yiren_ren@fas.harvard.eduPostdoctoral Fellow
Yiren is a postdoctoral fellow in the Buckner Lab. She received her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research uses neuroimaging methods and computational modeling to investigate how the human brain learns and...
Graduate Students
Gabrielle de Weck
gdeweck@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Gabrielle is a PhD student in the Cognition, Brain, and Behavior program of the Psychology Department. She received her B.S. in Biopsychology and B.A. in French from Tufts University in 2021, where she worked with Professor Ayanna Thomas in the Cognitive...
Lin Du
lindu@fas.harvard.eduVisiting Graduate Student
Lin is a visiting Master’s student in the Buckner Lab. He is pursuing a M.Eng. in Computer Science at the State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute at Beijing Normal University, where he works with Dr. Bing Liu. He obtained his B.Eng...
Penghui Du
penghui-du@outlook.comVisiting Graduate Student
Penghui is a visiting master’s student in the Buckner Lab, supported by the Bertarelli Fellowship. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Neuro-X at EPFL, with a strong interest in precision neuroimaging and non-invasive neuromodulation techniques...
Wendy Sun
wen_sun@hms.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Wendy is an MD/PhD student in Biological & Biomedical Sciences at Harvard Medical School, supported by the PD Soros Fellowship. She received her B.S. in Neuroscience from Yale in 2018, where she worked with Dr. Hedy Kober to study food choice and...
Xiangyu (Alaric) Wei
xiangyu_wei@g.harvard.edu Alaric is a Ph.D. student in the Cognition, Brain and Behavior program of the Psychology Department. He received his B.S. in Psychology and B.S. in Machine Learning & Neural Computation from UC San Diego in 2021, where he worked with Dr. Deborah...
Undergraduate Students
Patrick Dinu
Summer Student
I am from Romania and a rising junior at Princeton University, majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in Bioengineering and Global Health, and Health Policy, while following a pre-med track. My interest in medicine comes from my grandmother, who is a...
Theo Tobel
theotobel@college.harvard.eduUndergradate Research Assistant
Theo Tobel is a sophomore in Dunster House concentrating in Philosophy and Neuroscience. He is interested in studying the network-level effects of non-invasive brain stimulation and altered states of consciousness, as well as exploring how the evolution...
Jessica Zhuo
jessicazhuo@college.harvard.eduUndergraduate Student
Jessica Zhuo is a sophomore in Cabot House concentrating in Neuroscience on the Honors Mind, Brain, & Behavior track . Her research interests lie in neurodegeneration, precision medicine, and neuroimaging. She is also passionate about health & educational...
Research Assistants
Antonina Kilian
akilian@fas.harvard.eduResearch Assistant
Antonina is a Research Assistant in the Buckner Laboratory. She graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Biopsychology, Cognition & Neuroscience as well as Classical Archaeology. As an undergraduate, she was a member of the...
Lizzy Kulick
ekulick@fas.harvard.eduResearch Assistant
Lizzy is a Research Assistant in the Buckner Laboratory. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2026 with a B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience and minors in Biology: Neuroscience and Anthropology. In...
Hannah Piccirilli
hpiccirilli@mgh.harvard.eduClinical Research Coordinator
Hannah is a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Eldaief Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and collaborates with the Buckner Lab at Harvard University. She graduated summa cum laude from Westminster College with a B.S. in Neuroscience and a B.A. in...
Kathryn Rodrigues
krodrigues0@mgh.harvard.eduClinical Research Coordinator
Kathryn is a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Eldaief Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and collaborates with the Buckner Lab at Harvard University. She graduated from Yale University in 2024 with a B.S. in Psychology and the History of Science...
Abbey Russell
abigailrussell@fas.harvard.eduResearch Assistant
Abbey is a Research Assistant in the Buckner Laboratory. She graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 2025 with a B.A. in Psychological and Brain Sciences: Cognitive Neuroscience, along with minors in Anthropology: Global...
Siya Saraswat
Ssaraswat@mgh.harvard.eduClinical Research Coordinator
Siya is a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Eldaief Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and collaborates with the Buckner Lab at Harvard University. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2026 with a B.S. in psychology and neuroscience...
Affiliated Investigators
Habiballah Rahimi Eichi
Instructor of Psychiatry
Habib is an Instructor of Psychiatry affiliated with the Buckner lab. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from NC State University. With his background in control systems and big data analysis, he is interested in investigating the correlation...
Mark Eldaief
meldaief@bwh.harvard.eduAsst Professor of Neurology
Mark Eldaief, MD, MMSc is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research involves the use of non-invasive stimulation to modulate intrinsic functional networks. He uses functional...
Noam Saadon-Grosman
sgnoam@gmail.comPostdoctoral Fellow
Noam is a postdoctoral fellow interested in brain functional topographies, mainly of the somatomotor representations. She aims towards their characterization within individual brains. Also, understanding the somatomotor topography as part of the large...
Faculty Support
Whitney Villagran
wvillagran@fas.harvard.eduFaculty Support Specialist
Faculty: Buckner, Gershman, Phelps, Somerville, Ullman
Before joining Harvard, I graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston and double majored in Psychology and English. My past experiences in my career have built a good foundation with strong skills in adaptability, time management, customer...