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Affiliated Faculty and Lecturers

Affiliated Faculty

 

 Isabel F. Almeida
  Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies
  Specializations: Latina pregnancy, reproductive health, pregnancy anxiety, stress, mental health, health psychology
  iframos@uci.edu
 


Peter John Anderson
Ph.D. The University of Melbourne, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology; Department of Psychology Specializations: acrocephalosyndactylia, beer, child development, cranial sutures, Craniosynostoses, developmental disabilities, Gestational Age, Infant, Extremely Low Birth Weight, Infant, Extremely Premature, infant-newborn, infant-premature, infant-premature-diseases, infant-very low birth weight, premature birth, white matter
 

 


Drew H. Bailey
Professor, School of Education
Specializations: Education, Evolutionary Psychology
dhbailey@uci.edu

 


 Larry Cahill
  Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
  Specializations: Neural mechanisms of emotionally influenced memory, sex differences in brain
  lfcahill@uci.edu

 



 Maritza Salazar Campo
  Assistant Professor of Organization and Management, Paul Merage School of Business
  Specializations: Team Science, Group dynamics and processes, Team-based organizations, Global teams, Impact of culture on work behavior, International management, Management of innovation and learning
  maritza.salazar@uci.edu
 


Belinda Campos
Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies with appointments in School of Medicine, PRIME-LC, and Psychological Science
Specializations: Culture, Relationships, Positive Emotion, Health
bcampos@uci.edu

 


  Gustavo Carlo
   Professor, School of Education
   Research Interests: Prosocial and moral development, cultural mechanisms, personality, parenting, child and adolescent development
   gcarlo@uci.edu
 

 


Nadia Chernyak
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Sciences
Specializations: cognitive development, social cognition, prosocial behavior, moral cognition, agency and free will, conceptual development
nadia.chernyak@uci.edu

 


Greg Duncan
Distinguished Professor, Education
Specializations: Economics of Education, Program Evaluation, Child Development
gduncan@uci.edu
 


 Christine Dunkel Schetter
  Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Psychology UCLA
  Specializations: Stress and coping processes; social support; biopsychosocial processes in pregnancy, preterm delivery, low birth weight and other maternal/infant outcomes; and women’s reproductive health.
  dunkel@psych.ucla.edu

 


Jacquelynne Eccles
Distinguished Professor, Education
Specializations: Academic Motivation and Achievement, School and Family Influences on Adolescent Development, Gender and Ethnicity in STEM Fields
jseccles@uci.edu
 


Michelle A. Fortier
Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Specializations: Pediatric Pain, Pediatric Psycho-oncology, Palliative Care, Health Disparities, Community-Engaged Research Methods, Integrative Health, Health Information Technology, Stress and Health
mfortier@hs.uci.edu


 



Lauren Gyllenhamer
Ph.D. University of Southern California, Assistant Professor in Residence in Pediatrics; Department of Psychology (adiposity, allostasis, ghrelin, glucocorticoids, immunity, intra-abdominal fat, lipopolysaccharides, obesity, omentum, overweight, pediatric obesity, prenatal exposure delayed effects, receptors, glucocorticoid, subcutaneous fat, umbilical cord)


E. Alison Holman
 Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
 Specializations: Acute stress & cardiovascular disease; genetic vulnerability to stress-related mental/physical health problems; cognitive, social and emotional response to trauma.
 aholman@uci.edu


Michael A Hoyt
Professor and Chair, Population Health and Disease Prevention, Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health
Specializations: Cancer Survivorship, Coping, Adjustment to Chronic Illness, Psychoneuroimmunology, Biobehavioral Mechanisms and Interventions, Stress
mahoyt@uci.edu 

 


Jacqueline H.J. Kim
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Department of Psychology,  (Asian American/Immigrant mental and physical health; (advanced/metastatic) cancer survivorship; trauma, stress & coping; internalizing/somatic symptoms; psychosocial interventions; understudied populations)
jhjkim@uci.edu

 


 Judith Kroll
 Distinguished Professor, Language Science, School of Social Sciences
 Specializations:  psycholinguistics, bilingualism, second language acquisition, language production, lexical processing, reading, visual cognition, gender and science
 judith.kroll@uci.edu


 Sarah R. Martin
  Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, School of Medicine
  Research Interests:  pediatric pain, pediatric psychology, healthcare disparities, emergency medicine
  sarahm7@uci.edu

 


Ariel B. Neikrug
 Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior
 School of Medicine
 Specializations:  Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, Physical Activity, Chronic Disease, Mood, Functioning, Quality of Life
 aneikrug@hs.uci.edu
 


Uma Rao
 Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior
 School of Medicine
 Specializations:  Adolescent mood disorders, substance use disorders, obesity and pain
 umar@hs.uci.edu


 Madhu Reddy
  Professor, Department of Informatics
  Specializations: Challenges of using health information technology in clinical settings, Improving the delivery of mental health services
  mcreddy@uci.edu


Stephanie Reich
Professor, Education
Specializations: Child Development, Parenting, Peer Interactions, Media, Program Evaluation
smreich@uci.edu


Sabrina Schuck
Associate Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Specializations: ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Disorders of Reading and Written Language, Human-Animal Intervention, Non-pharmacological treatment of disruptive behavior, Cognitive-Behavioral school-based and family-based interventions
sabrina@uci.edu


Eric Spangenberg
Dean of The Paul Merage School of Business and Professor of Paul Merage School of Business; Psychological Science
Specializations: Sensory cues in the retail environment and the effects of self-prediction on behavior
ers@uci.edu


Mark Steyvers
Professor, Cognitive Sciences
Specializations: Wisdom of Crowds; Aggregating human judgments; Computational models of the mind; Machine Learning and Statistics; Memory and Decision Making
mark.steyvers@uci.edu


 Jane K. Stoever
  Clinical Professor of Law
  Specializations: Domestic violence law, family law, clinical legal theory, feminist legal theory
  jstoever@law.uci.edu

 


Golnaz Tabibnia
 Assistant Researcher, Department of Psychological Science
 Specializations: Affective neuroscience, self-regulation, decision-making, clinical neuroscience, resilience
 tabibnia@uci.edu
 


William Thompson
Professor Emeritus, Criminology, Law & Socieity
Specializations: Forensic Science; Expert Evidence; Human Judgment and Decision Making
wcthomps@uci.edu
 


Deborah Vandell
Professor, School of Education
Specializations: P-20 Education; Longitudinal Studies of Development
dvandell@uci.edu
 


 Mark Warschauer
  Professor of Education and Informatics
  Specializations: Digital Learning; Language and Literacy; STEM; Diversity and Equity
  markw@uci.edu
 


Michael Yassa
Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Specializations: Integrative neuroscience research on learning and memory mechanisms with translational applications to education, technology, and clinical disorders
myassa@uci.edu


Lecturers