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Research Program Mentors

Polygence mentors are selected based on their exceptional academic background, teaching experience, and unique ability to inspire the next generation of innovative thinkers and industry leaders.

Cognitive
Chloris

Chloris

MS

Expertise

speech-language pathology, psychology, health, video editing, music composition

Evan

Evan

PhD

Expertise

psychology, neuroscience

Jessica

Jessica

PhD

Expertise

Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, cognitive and behavioral therapy

Macrina

Macrina

PhD

Expertise

Psychology, social psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, political psychology

David

David

PhD

Expertise

neural signal processing, data science and statistics, AI/ML for medical applications

Ana

Ana

MS

Expertise

Biology, Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Neuroepidemiology, Social and Behavioral Epidemiology, Developmental Psychology, Behavioral Psychology

John Aaron

John Aaron

PhD

Expertise

Neuroinflammation, Stroke, Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Inflammation, Mood Disorders

Adrian

Adrian

PhD

Expertise

Science eduation, education, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, learning sciences, educational psychology

Carmen

Carmen

PhD

Expertise

Child health, neuroscience, science writing

Tochukwu

Tochukwu

PhD

Expertise

Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

Dante

Dante

PhD candidate

Expertise

Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, RNA-SEQ, Bioinformatics

Christine

Christine

PhD

Expertise

Computational Biology, Neuroscience, Psychology, Aging

Aya

Aya

PhD candidate

Expertise

Anything in the realm of Psychology

AARTI

AARTI

PhD candidate

Expertise

developmental psychology, cognitive development, STEM education

Chiaki

Chiaki

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Learning & Memory, Biology, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Sleep

Julia

Julia

PhD candidate

Expertise

social, cognitive and language development, developmental psychology

Grace

Grace

PhD

Expertise

research methods, conference presentations, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, basic statistics, basic coding in R, Alzheimer's disease research, concussion research

Brock

Brock

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience of consciousness, applications of machine learning to biomedical research, how do our genetic backgrounds influence our psychology

Edward

Edward

Industry expert

Expertise

Neurobiology, behavior science, psychology

Alexa

Alexa

PhD candidate

Expertise

social psychology, developmental psychology, cognition, morality, moral character, mind perception, cancel culture, speciesism, vegetarianism, nature vs. nurture, intergroup cognition, group decisions, LGBT experiences