Starting July 1st, CoPsy is excited to welcome six new faculty members, Dr. Serra Favila, Dr. David Levari, Dr. Julia Marshall, Dr. Jason Okonofua, Dr. Elizabeth Thompson, and Dr. Jamie Trost. We could not be more excited for them to join our faculty and encourage students to check out each of these new faculty member’s research profiles.
Dr. Serra Favila is starting as an Assistant Professor in CoPsy. She is a computational neuroscientist interested in human memory. She comes to Brown after having completed a postdoc at Columbia University and a PhD at New York University. You can learn more about her research by checking out her personal website: https://sfavila.github.io/
Dr. David Levari is starting as an Assistant Professor in CoPsy. He is a social psychologist who studies how people try to assess and improve the performance of themselves and others. He completed his doctoral degree and his postdoc at Harvard University. You can learn more about his research by checking out his personal website: https://davidlevari.com/
Dr. Julia Marshall is starting as an Assistant Professor in CoPsy. She is a developmental psychologist who studies children’s moral and social cognition. She comes to Brown after having completed her postdoc at Boston College and a PhD at Yale University. At Brown, she will lead the Mind & Morality Lab, which you learn about here: https://sites.brown.edu/mindmoralitylab/
Dr. Jason Okonofua is starting as an Assistant Professor in CoPsy. He is a social psychologist who is interested in science-based strategies to combat inequity in society across many domains, including education and criminal justice. Prior to coming to Brown, he was a professor at University of California-Berkeley. You can learn more about his research at his personal website: https://www.okonofua.org/
Dr. Elizabeth Thompson is starting as an Assistant Professor of the Practice in CoPsy. She is a clinical psychologist whose research focuses on understanding risk factors for psychosis-spectrum disorders in adolescence. She received her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Maryland and completed her clinical internship at Brown University. To learn more about her work, check out her Researchers @ Brown profile: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/ethomps5
Dr. Jamie Trost is a lecturer of statistics in CoPsy whose roots lie in cognitive psychology. While pursuing her doctoral degree studying attention and perception at the University of Notre Dame, Jamie became heavily interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), particularly in regard to teaching quantitative statistics and methodologies. At Brown, Jamie will offer courses in statistics at both undergraduate and graduate levels and will serve as a statistical consultant to graduate students.
