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Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock
🦚 Professor, Department of Psychology
🦚 Head, Cognition, Perception, and Brain
🦚 Director, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program
🎓 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
🦚 Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Hyojeong Kim
🦚 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
🎓 Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
My research centers on how the brain manipulates information to serve goal-directed behaviors. My projects explore how different cognitive strategies for removing thoughts from mind lead to changes in their memory representations.
🦚 Doctoral Students
Caleb Jerinic-Brodeur
🦚 Ph.D. student, Psychology (Year 4)
🎓 B.S., Arizona State University
I study how we control what we remember (and forget!), especially how emotions impact this process in the brain. Using a mix of brain imaging and behavioral experiments, I explore why memory control sometimes fails and how we can get better at it.
Edward Leung
🦚 Ph.D. student, Neuroscience (Year 4)
🎓 B.S., B.A., University of Washington
I’m intrigued by how the conceptual semantics of information influences working memory. Specifically, I’m exploring how the meaning of information impacts our ability to control what remains in our mind and what we can discard.
I’m fascinated by how visual working memory and attention work together to help us make sense of the ever-changing world around us. I explore how we store, protect, and update visual information in memory, and how this shapes what we remember long-term.
Alex Grattery
🦚 Ph.D. student, Clinical Psychology (Year 2)
Co-mentored by Dr. Sam Cooper
🎓 B.A., New College of Florida
I study how attention to threatening thoughts contributes to state anxiety, using cognitive psychology paradigms such as working memory tasks and eye tracking to manipulate and measure attention. My goal is to develop more effective treatments for anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and related conditions.
🦚 Lab Administration
Amelia Canright
🦚 Lab Manager
Senior, Neuroscience
Cindy Sanders
🦚 Assistant Lab Manager
Junior, Behavioral and Social Data Sciences
🦚 Research Assistants
Research Assistants engage in lab research activities, often earning course credit, through tasks such as data collection and analysis, participation in journal clubs, and attendance at lab meetings. These students receive mentorship from a graduate student or postdoc in the lab and have the opportunity to design their own experiments for senior thesis projects.
Amelia Canright
Senior, Neuroscience
Lab mentor: Caleb
Joined Fall 2023 |🏅2025 URF Fellowship
Claire Chiang
Senior, Neuroscience and Piano Performance
Lab mentor: Edward
Joined Fall 2023 |🏅2025 URF Fellowship
Nicole Kowalchuk
🎓 B.S., Human Biology, UT Austin
Lab mentor: Edward
Joined Fall 2024 |🏅2025 URF Fellowship
Saylor Black
Senior, Neuroscience
Lab mentor: Eva
Joined Spring 2025
Cindy Sanders
Junior, Behavioral and Social Data Sciences
Lab mentor: Caleb
Joined Spring 2025
Mia "Eve" Dominguez
Senior, Neuroscience
Lab mentor: Eva
Joined Fall 2025 |🏅2026 URF Fellowship
Kaeli Kampschmidt
Junior, Neuroscience
Lab mentor: Alex
Joined Fall 2025
Gabriel Garza
Junior, Neuroscience
Lab mentor: Eva
Joined Spring 2026
Sanjana Reddy Eesari
Sophomore, Neuroscience
Lab mentor: Alex
Joined Spring 2026
🦚 Research Interns
Research Interns read literature and participate in lab meetings for a semester to deepen their understanding of our research and gain insights into the lab's operations. At the end of the semester, they have the opportunity to interview for a Research Assistant position.
Niyati Jain
Junior, Psychology
Joined Spring 2026
Ayaan Karim-Ali
Sophomore, Psychology
Joined Spring 2026
🦚 Lab Photos Through the Years
🦚 Alumni: Doctoral Students
Ziyao Zhang, Ph.D. '25
Postdoc
University of California, Berkeley
Zachary Bretton, Ph.D. '24
Data Scientist (Clinical Researcher)
Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders.
Justin Kilmarx, Ph.D. '23
Research ScientistDCS Corporation
Augustin Hennings, Ph.D. '22
PostdocPrinceton University
Remington Mallett, Ph.D. '21
Sleep Research ScientistLeidos
Hyojeong Kim, Ph.D. '20
PostdocUniversity of Texas at Austin
Seth Koslov, Ph.D. '20
Postdoc
University of Pennsylvania
Ethan Oblak, Ph.D. '19
PostdocRIKEN Center for Brain Science
🦚 Alumni: Visiting Students
Chenyu Li, Ph.D.
Lab visit: Fall 2024PostdocUniversity of Zurich
Lea Bartsch, Ph.D.
Lab visit: Spring 2018Academic AssociateUniversity of Zurich
🦚 Alumni: Postdoctoral Researchers
Laura Werner, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Texas State University
Diane Whitmer, Ph.D.
Biomedical Scientist
Inquis Medical, Inc.
Elizabeth Lorenc, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Behavior and Neuroimaging CoreBrown University
Tracy Wang, Ph.D.
Research Program ManagerMicrosoft Azure Engineering
🦚 Alumni: Masters Students
Allison Bruning, M.A. '21
Data Analyst
Sentencing Resource Counsel
Allison Berman, M.S. '18
Scientific Software EngineerGoogle
Mark Hollenbeck, M.S. '16
Associate Director, Enterprise DataExact Sciences
🦚 Alumni: Research Assistants
Swetha Ayinala '25
Ph.D. StudentMontclair State UniversityJeani Fan '25
Research AssociateMonfils Memory Lab at UT AustinRebeka Papanikolaou '25
English Language and Culture AssistantTAPIFIsabella Smillie '24
Research ScientistYuste Lab at ColumbiaNeerul Gupta '24
English Language and Culture AssistantCIEE SpainSabrina Zheng '23
M.D. StudentPaul L. Foster School of MedicinePaige Stetson '23
Imaging Support ScientistBrain Imaging Center at UT AustinAmaris Torres '23
Study CoordinatorUT AustinAshley Humphries '23
Lab ManagerUniversity of Nebraska-LincolnBrandon Bruce '23
M.D. StudentUT SouthwesternReece Walter '22 (J.D.)
Legal FellowVolunteer Lawyers for the ArtsAlexandra Epstein '22
Law StudentSouthern Methodist UniversitySandhya Tiku '22
Co-FounderSinuStimMeghan Mallya '21
M.D. StudentUniversity of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonAanika Dalal '20
Co-FounderARMOR - Alliance for Reducing Microbial ResistanceLandry Bulls '20
Ph.D. StudentDartmouth CollegeRobaa Al-Najar '19 (M.D.)
OBGYN ResidentMcGovern Medical SchoolStephanie Jeanneret '19 (M.S.)
M.D. StudentMcGovern Medical School
Bettina Bustos '18
Ph.D. StudentUniversity of IowaScott Lacritz '19 (M.D.)
General Surgery ResidentUT SouthwesternZean Aaron Evan Luna '19 (M.D.)
Neurosurgery ResidentTufts Medical CenterPritika Paramasivam '18
M.D. StudentUniversity of Texas Medical BranchJiangang Shan '18
Ph.D. StudentUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonSarah Elnozahy '17
Ph.D. StudentUniversity College LondonKatlyn Hedgpeth '17
Associate Product ManagerIndeedEllen Crowe '17 (M.D.)
OBGYN ResidentMcGovern Medical SchoolRochelle Stewart '15 (Ph.D.)
PostdocUniversity of Texas at AustinArjun Mukerji '15 (Ph.D.)
Research ScientistAtropos HealthKaterina Placek '14 (Ph.D.)
Senior Data ScientistTakeda PharmaceuticalsPage updated
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