Manuel Ramirez (he/they)

Predoctoral Student, Health Psychology

Manuel Ramirez is a third-year student in Health Psychology. He is interested in how identity, stigma, and discrimination intersect to differentially affect health outcomes among minority individuals and especially how these forces affect the health and well-being of sexual and gender minorities who also identify as racial/ethnic minorities.

Enya Daang (she/her)

Predoctoral Student, Health Psychology

Enya Daang is a second-year student in Health Psychology. Her work focuses on emotion regulation and its role in physical and mental health. She studies how early family environments and current relationships shape emotional processes and social behavior to influence health outcomes. She also examines how inflammation impacts and is impacted by social and emotional experiences.

Corinne Meinhausen, M.A. (she/her)

Predoctoral Student, Health Psychology

Corinne Meinhausen is a fifth-year student in Health Psychology. Her research examines the impact of cardiovascular medical events, and how these events influence individual’s psychological health outcomes and quality of life.  She also explores the physiological impact of trauma exposure, with a focus on the biological and behavioral mechanisms involved in healthy and pathological fear learning. Her goal is to eventually design targeted interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder following sudden medical events.

Fran Querdasi, M.A. (she/her)

Preoctoral Student, Developmental Psychology

Fran Querdasi is a fifth-year predoctoral student in Developmental Psychology PhD program minoring in Health Psychology. Her program of research focuses on biopsychosocial mechanisms linking exposure to adversity in childhood with physical and mental health outcomes, particularly internalizing and chronic pain disorders. She has examined how multigenerational adversity exposure influences development of the gut microbiome and characterized gut-microbiome-brain-immune pathways that underlie connections between adversity and health in childhood. This work can inform new interventions for individuals exposed to adversity in early life.

Hugo Sanchez Hernandez (he/him)

Ph.D. in Psychology Science, UC Irvine

Dr. Hugo Sanchez Hernandez is interested in the interplay of culture and socioeconomic status (SES) in influencing the association between emotions and psychological health. He has studied the emotional experiences of status-shifting individuals (first-generation college students) as they bridge their differing SES worlds, specifically family and university environments. His work aims to inform a better understanding of how emotions are managed across the social hierarchy and address questions about the potential health and well-being in ethnic minority students transitioning to higher education.

Benjamin M. Rosenberg (he/him)

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, UCLA

Dr. Ben Rosenberg is interested in translational and clinical research to increase understanding of the development of anxiety, depression, and related mental health concerns, and the mechanisms underlying effective treatment. He utilizes cross-sectional and longitudinal neuroimaging to investigate how neural processes relate to changes in symptoms throughout development or during treatment. Dr. Rosenberg is also interested in novel treatment approaches, including scalable interventions that can increase access to care.