Lab Director
 | Natalie C. Ebner, PhDCurriculum Vitae natalie.ebner@ufl.edu Dr. Natalie Ebner is Full Professor and the Trish Calvert Endowed Professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Florida. Read more Google Scholar | PubMed |
Research Scientists
 | Tian Lin, PhDCurriculum Vitae lintian0527@ufl.edu Dr. Tian Lin's primary research interest is in cognitive aging. In particular, he is intrigued by how emotional and motivational factors influence cognition across the adulthood. Read more |
 | Marilyn Horta, PhDCurriculum Vitae mhorta09@ufl.edu Dr. Marilyn Horta's research interest is in characterizing developmental trajectories of social cognition and health-related behaviors, which includes identifying potential age-related deficits and ways to optimize function in these domains. Read more Google Scholar | PubMed |
Postdoctoral Researcher
 | Didem Pehlivanoglu, PhDCurriculum Vitae dpehlivanoglu@ufl.edu Dr. Didem Pehlivanoglu's research interests involve investigating the role of emotionally and motivationally relevant information on cognition at basic and applied contexts. Read more Google Scholar | Publons | Twitter |
Graduate Students
 | Rebecca PolkGraduate Research Assistant Curriculum Vitae r.polk@ufl.edu Rebecca Polk's research interests include the neural correlates of social and affective cognition and how they change in the aging brain. Read more Github | Twitter |
 | Alayna ShoenfeltGraduate Research Assistant Curriculum Vitae ashoenfelt@ufl.edu Alayna Shoenfelt’s research interests focus on understanding the underlying cognitive and socioemotional processes used by individuals to perceive and interact with their social environments, and how they change with aging. Read more |
 | Kylie WrightGraduate Research Assistant Curriculum Vitae kyliewright@ufl.edu Kylie Wright's research interests focus on investigating the cognitive, neurological and health impacts of stress at the psychological and biological level and how this process changes with age. Read more |
 | Chun-Che HungGraduate Research Assistant Curriculum Vitae hung.ch@ufl.edu Chun-Che Hung’s research interests focus on exploring the gut dysbiosis in older adults with Alzheimer’s disease continuum and its relationship with structural and functional brain changes using different neuroimaging techniques. Read more Google Scholar |
Lab Managers
Dalia El-Shafie
Dana Arnold
Ryan Faulkner
Lab Alumni
Peiwei Liu, Ph.D
Jillian Rung, PhMD
Ian Frazier, Ph.D
Desiree Lussier, Ph.D
Aylin Tasdemir, Ph.D
Carla Strickland Hughes, Ph.D