Cognitive Development & Neuroimaging Laboratory

Martine graduated from Paul Valéry University of Montpellier with a BS in Clinical Psychology and earned a master’s degree in Social-Organizational Psychology at Teachers College Columbia University. She began volunteering for Dr. Marsh in 2011 and learned neuroimaging techniques. She was then hired as a research assistant and was responsible for project coordination, data organization and collection, and data quality assurance. During that time Martine developed clinical and technical expertise in acquiring imaging data from participants with anxiety disorders. In 2018, she was promoted to her current position as Lab Manager. She has since been supervising the lab’s operations across three research projects. Additionally, she oversees talent acquisition processes in the lab, from screening and interviewing applicants to training and mentoring new hires. As a supervisor, she also fosters organizational changes through developing training material, implementing career development initiatives, and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion strategies. 

Caroline graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019 with a BS in Neurobiology. While at UW-Madison, Caroline worked in a research lab focused on youth with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. After college, she spent two and a half years delivering services based in applied behavior analysis (ABA) to children with autism spectrum disorders. Her current role in Dr. Marsh’s lab involves coordinating pediatric fMRI studies and clinical trials that examine the neural underpinnings of OCD and anxiety. Caroline plans to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology with a focus on children and adolescents.

Diego Álvarez graduated from Columbia University in 2022 with a BA in the joint major of Neuroscience and Behavior. Throughout his college career, Mr. Álvarez worked with the elderly and Latinx populations of NYC by coordinating vaccine appointments and other medical services. Due to this and other experiences he had while living in Puerto Rico, Mr. Álvarez is interested in studying the different factors that influence a person’s access to treatment and care, and the quality of this. This passion of his drew him to Dr. Marsh’s lab and its work in the Covid-19 Mother Baby Outcomes (COMBO) study. Within COMBO, Mr. Álvarez works in close collaboration with Charlotte Quincoses by contacting, coordinating, and conducting fMRIs on the mothers and their infants enrolled in the study. Furthermore, Mr. Álvarez has also played a crucial role in the Notice of Special Interest given to the COMBO study, where he has conducted and is now in the process of analyzing a series of qualitative interviews. In the future, Mr. Álvarez will be enrolling in NYU Long Island School of Medicine to receive his MD, after which he hopes to work directly with underrepresented minority groups either in NYC or back home in Puerto Rico.

Dana Glenn is an NIMH/F31 fellow in the final year of her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at UC Riverside. Dana’s research examines the neural substrates underlying biases in threat processing and cognitive control in childhood anxiety. Dana is currently working as a visiting researcher and she will begin a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in July under the mentorship of Drs. Fitzgerald, Marsh, and Pagliaccio.

Sarah Bennett is a master’s student in Neuroscience & Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and will be obtaining her degree in Spring 2023. Coming from a background in music and arts education, she received her Bachelor’s degree from NYU in Percussion Performance with a minor in Social & Cultural Analysis. Sarah has previously worked with developmental populations in clinical, research, and educational settings. While at Columbia, she has worked as a research assistant at the Developmental Neuroscience Lab under Dr. Nim Tottenham and the Neurocognition of Language Lab under Dr. Karen Froud, where she was involved in data collection and analysis, study coordination and design, and recruitment. At Dr. Marsh's Lab, Sarah is involved in neuroimaging and clinical data collection that is aimed at examining inhibitory control differences in mother-child dyads. Sarah is currently interested in the long-term physiological and psychological impacts of early-life stress and their neural correlates, particularly on adolescents.