Lab Members
Director of Data Science
Lab Coordinators
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
Research Assistants
Lab Alumni
Director of Data Science
Lab Coordinators
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
Research Assistants
Lab Alumni
Michael Mullarkey, Ph.D.
Michael (he/him/his) earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology at University of Texas at Austin. His current lab-related projects include setting up computational infrastructure, developing prediction-focused pipelines to identify which single session interventions work best for whom, and creating open source data science workshops.
E-mail: michael.mullarkey@stonybrook.edu
Links: Website | Resume
Akash Shroff, B.S.
Akash (he/him/his) is a Lab Coordinator for the Lab for Scalable Mental Health. He graduated from Stony Brook University in 2020 with a B.S. in Business Management and a minor in Chemistry. His years of work with children and adolescents at a socio-spiritual organization has led him to be interested in the behaviors and attitudes of young people. He hopes to pursue a MD/PhD program after graduation and aspires to a career in pediatrics and psychology research.
Chantelle Roulston, B.A.
Chantelle (she/her/hers) graduated from Stony Brook University in 2020 with her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology. She is a research fellow with the iSchool Inclusion Institute as well as a member of Psi Chi. She is passionate about working with young adults, having spent three summers as a camp counselor. Chantelle hopes to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology and work with adolescents in the future.
Julia Fassler, B.A.
Julia (she/her/hers) is a Lab Coordinator for the Lab for Scalable Mental Health. She graduated from Hofstra University in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Disability Studies. She is interested in researching scalable interventions for families of adolescents with anxiety. In the future, Julia intends to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
Sharon Chen, B.S.E.
Sharon (she/her/hers) is a Lab Coordinator in the Lab for Scalable Mental Health. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2019 with a B.S.E. in materials science and engineering with a secondary major in Psychology and a minor in Business Management. Her research interests include resilience, anxiety and mood disorders in adolescents, and effective treatment options. She hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
Atina Manvelian, Ph.D.
Atina Manvelian (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Jessica Schleider & Dr. Joanne Davila at Stony Brook University; she is also a Postdoctoral Affiliate at Stanford University for Dr. James Gross’ lab. Sponsored by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Atina earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona. As a relationship researcher, Atina investigates how our social contexts give rise to attachment orientations or emotion regulation capacities that impact our mental health outcomes across the lifespan. As a clinical scientist, she is invested in developing scalable relationship interventions that target transdiagnostic mechanisms of change for disadvantaged youth. Through this work, she hopes to increase healthy relationship functioning and promote more positive views of self/other to improve the trajectory of people’s lives.
E-mail: atinamanvelian@email.arizona.edu
Links: CV | Instagram | Twitter
Mallory Dobias, B.S.
Mallory (she/her/hers) is a second-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Psychology. Her primary research interests include evaluating and improving the treatment of internalizing symptoms in youth, particularly symptoms of self-injury and suicidality. She plans to (1) identify at-risk youth who are less likely to access traditional mental health treatments, (2) develop brief, scalable interventions, and (3) implement these interventions within accessible community settings.
E-mail: mallory.dobias@stonybrook.edu
Links: Website
Jenna Sung, B.A.
Jenna (she/her/hers) is a second-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University. Jenna graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Educational Studies. Her primary research goal is to increase access to mental health treatment by testing and disseminating accessible, scalable interventions that can address multiple level barriers to care. Jenna also aims to maximize the impact of this research by engaging with policy level work.
E-mail: jenna.sung@stonybrook.edu
Links: CV
Jenny Shen, M.A.
Jenny (she/her/hers; they/them/theirs) is a second-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University. They graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.S. in Psychology and received an M.A. in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. Jenny's research interests include (1) elucidating the impact of minority stress on mental health disparities among gender and sexual minorities, racial and ethnic minorities, and their intersections; (2) ameliorating the effects of such minority stressors through accessible, transdiagnostic interventions; and (3) identifying potential implications for policy. Jenny is also a student in Dr. Nick Eaton's lab and is co-mentored by Drs. Schleider and Eaton.
E-mail: jenny.shen@stonybrook.edu
Links: CV
Isaac Ahuvia, B.A.
Isaac (he/him/his) is a first-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University. Isaac graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Sociology in 2016. Since that time, he has worked at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and the University of Chicago Poverty Lab. He is interested in the relationship between individuals' beliefs about mental health and their mental health outcomes, and hopes to identify interventions that leverage mindsets to improve mental health in accessible, scalable ways.
E-mail: isaac.ahuvia@stonybrook.edu
Links: Website
Riley McDanal, B.A.
Riley (she/her/hers) is a first-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Psychology, where she studied idiographic mental health data. Riley is interested in potential data-driven changes in the classification and treatment of mental health problems. Her current research interests include HiTOP, transdiagnostic interventions, and possible connections between the two. Riley is also a student in Dr. Nick Eaton's lab and is co-mentored by Drs. Schleider and Eaton.
E-mail: riley.mcdanal@stonybrook.edu
Links: Website
Katie Cohen, M.A.
Katie (she/her/hers) is an incoming Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University. She received a B.S. in Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 2019 and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University in 2020. Katie is interested in the integration of non-traditional mental health interventions (single session interventions, mental health apps, peer support, etc.) into traditional settings frequented by youth and young adults (schools, primary care, etc.). She is committed to leveraging user-centered design and community-based participatory research methods in her work to ensure that interventions are designed to meet participants’ needs and minimize the research-to-practice gap.
E-mail: katherineacohen15@gmail.com
Links: Website
Dr. Schleider hopes to review applications for a new clinical psychology Ph.D. student for the 2022-2023 academic year. More information about Stony Brook University's clinical psychology doctoral program is available here, and more information about applying to join the Lab for Scalable Mental Health as a Ph.D. student is available here.
M.A. Students
Sakura Ito
Sakura (she/her/hers) graduated from Purdue University with a major in Psychological Sciences under the Research Focused Honors Program in 2020. She is interested in the influence of risk factors on the developmental pathways of depression and anxiety within adolescents and young adults and its translation to intervention outcomes. In the future, Sakura hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
Laura Jans
Laura (she/her/hers) graduated from Stony Brook University with a major in psychology with minors in chemistry and biology. Broadly, she is interested in
the causes of and effective treatments for youth mental health problems. Additional interests include accessibility of mental health resources, risk factors for youth mental health problems, and the roles of family and parenting in a child’s well-being. In the future, she would like to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and hopes to work with children and adolescents.
