People
Principal Investigator
Nicolas C. Pégard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physical Sciences
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Primary Faculty, Carolina Stress Initiative, UNC Neuroscience Center
Beckman Young Investigator, Sloan Research Fellow in Neurosciences
2014-2018 Postdoc at U.C. Berkeley
2009-2014 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering from Princeton University
2006-2009 B.S. from Ecole Polytechnique
Key Collaborator
Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Applied Physical Sciences
Primary Faculty, Carolina Stress Initiative, UNC Neuroscience Center, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator
2015-2019 Postdoc at UNC-Chapel Hill
2010-2015 PhD in Psychology (Behavioral Neuroscience) from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras
Postdoctoral Scholars
Geronimo Velazquez-Hernandez, PhD
Email: leon_velazquez@med.unc.edu
2021-Present Postdoc in Neuroscience at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
2016-2021 Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Antonio Florido, MSc, PhD
Email: aflorido@email.unc.edu
2023-Present: CPPFD Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
2022-2023: Postdoc at Translational Mechanisms of Fear Lab (UAB), Spain
2017-2022 Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain
2014-2015 MSc in Mental Health at the University of Almeria (UAL), Spain
Graduate Students
Changjia Cai
Email: changjia@live.unc.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/changjia
2020-Present Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University, USA
2017-2019 M.S. in Statistics and Operations Research at UNC Chapel Hill, USA
2013-2017 B.S. in Physics at Fudan University, China
Maria Magdalena Ortiz-Juza
Email: mariamag@unc.edu
2020-Present Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
2013-2018 B.S. Biology (physiology concentration), San Francisco State University, USA
Vincent Curtis
Email: vrcurtis291@unc.edu
2020-Present Ph.D. in Applied Physical Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
2017-2020 B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University, USA
Noah Miller
Email: nmill12@email.unc.edu
2021-Present Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
2015-2019 B.S. in Psychology, B.A. Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
Jovan Tormes-Vaquerano
Email: jovantv@email.unc.edu
2023-Present Ph.D. in Applied Physical Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
2019-2023 B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Research Support
Ellora (Ellie) McTaggart
Email: ellora@live.unc.edu
2019-2023 B.S. in Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering (Minor: Neuroscience) at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University, USA
Jose Rios
Email: josera@live.unc.edu
2019-2023 B.S. in Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering (Minor: Neuroscience) at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University, USA
Ayden Ring
Email: josera@live.unc.edu
2019-2023 B.A. in Biology (Minor: Neuroscience) at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
Undergraduate Students
Micah Baldonado
Email: micahbaldonado@unc.edu
2020-Present B.S. in Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University, USA
Sophia Hegel
Email: sophheg@ad.unc.edu
2020-Present B.S. in Neuroscience (Minors: Chemistry and Spanish for the Health Professions) at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
Sarah Lowe
Email: slowe3@unc.edu
2020-Present B.S. in Neuroscience and B.A. in Music at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
Kayal Udaiyar
Email: kayalru@email.unc.edu
2020-Present B.S. in Neuroscience and Psychology (Minor: Creative Writing) at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
John Boniberger
Email: bjo@unc.edu
2022-Present B.S. in Neuroscience and Biology (Minor: Chemistry) at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
Lab Alumni
Samir Patel
Medical student at Campbell University
Research Assistant and Technician from 2021-2023
Hossein Eybposh, Ph.D.
Current Software engineer at Science, Inc. Alameda, CA.
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
Thesis title: "Deep Learning Methods in Computer Generated Holography"
2015-2018 M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Hannah Baker
2020-Present B.S. Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University, USA
Nicholas Caira, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Applied Physical Sciences
2014-2019 Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering Duke University
2010-2014 B.S. Physics from Boston College
Jiayi Xu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Class of 2022
B.S. Computer Science | B.S. Psychology | Neuroscience Minor
Aram Moossavi
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Class of 2022
B.A. Mathematics
B.S. Statistics and Analytics
Computer Science Minor
Mathew Atisa
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Class of 2023
B.S. Computer Science
Andrew Knudsen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Class of 2021
B.S. Biomedical Engineering | B.A. in Mathematics | Spanish for the Health Professions Minor
Ross Rucho
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Class of 2020
B.S. Biomedical Engineering | B.S. Computer Science
Praneeth Chakravarthula
CS Ph.D. Student
Continued with a Postdoc at Princeton with Prof. Felix Heide
Asha Sata
East Chapel Hill High School,
Current undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill