Lab Director
Anna Weinberg, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University, 2014
Canada Research Chair in Clinical Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
anna.weinberg@mcgill.ca
Office: 2001 McGill College, 1407
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Lab: 2001 McGill College, 1450
Lab Coordinators
Anna Walls
Anna completed an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at McGill University in 2025.
She is passionate about exploring how disturbances in cognitive-affective processes may increase one's vulnerability to develop substance use disorders alongside other types of externalizing psychopathology. In the future she hopes to pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology.
Kate Wooliams
Kate graduated from McGill University in 2025 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a double minor in Sociology and Behavioural Science.
Her research interests range from the common underlying mechanisms between internalizing disorders to capturing treatment outcome disparities between minority groups.
She is passionate about expanding access to affordable evidence-based treatment to underserved communities. Kate plans to pursue graduate studies in counselling psychology to achieve this goal.
Maria Houdaifa
Anna completed an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at McGill University in 2025.
She is passionate about exploring how disturbances in cognitive-affective processes may increase one's vulnerability to develop substance use disorders alongside other types of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. In the future she hopes to pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology.
Graduate Students
Lidia Panier
Lidia is a fifth-year PhD student in the lab. She completed her M.A. (Social Sciences: Psychology) at the University of Chicago. She is interested in the effects of stress on reward processing across depression and anxiety, as well as the unique differences between these internalizing disorders.
Funding:
Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives, Graduate Student Fellowship (2021-2022)
FRQ-S Ph.D. Funding (2022-2024)
Grace Allison
Grace is a fourth-year PhD student in the TRAC lab. She completed her B.A. in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in biobehavioral correlates of reward and threat processing, social functioning, and different facets of stress exposure, as they relate to the development and maintenance of internalizing psychopathology and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors.
Funding:
Judith Mappin Fellowship, McGill University (2021)
Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives, Graduate Student Fellowship (2022-2023)
FRQ-SC P.h.D Funding (2023-2027)
Awards:
SSCP Distinguished Contribution Award at APS Student Poster Competition, 2022
APS Student Research Award, 2022
Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH) Student Poster Award, 2023
Corinne Sejourne (co-mentored)
Corinne is a fourth-year PhD student working jointly in the TRAC Lab and Behavioural Medicine Lab. She received her undergraduate degree (B.A., Honors, Human Biology) from Brown University. She is interested in developing treatment interventions to promote healthier stress responses in mothers and caregivers as measured by emotional and physiological markers.
Funding:
Tomlinson Fellowship, McGill University (2021-2023)
FRQ-SC P.h.D Funding (2023-2027)
Awards:
Society for Affective Science, Outstanding Poster Honorable Mention, 2022
Alexandra Argiros
Alex is a third-year PhD student in the TRAC lab. She received her B.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University in 2020 and her M.Ed. in Clinical and Developmental Research from Vanderbilt University in 2023. She is interested in how neural responses to reward, threat, and emotional stimuli interact with social factors and how these factors relate to the development of anxiety and depression.
Funding:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Doctoral Award (2024-2027)
Zhixin (Annie) Zhou
Annie is a third-year PhD student in the lab. She completed her B.S. degree at the Ohio State University (Psychology) and M.A. degree (Clinical Psychology) at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is interested in exploring how maternal psychological distress impacts offspring’s brain development and mental health by probing the neurophysiological correlates of cognitive-affective functions.
Funding:
Tomlinson Fellowship, McGill University (2023-2025)
Josephine Levy
Josephine is a second-year clinical PhD student in the TRAC lab. She completed her B.A. in Psychology at Université Paris Cité and her Masters of Research in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology at University College London and Yale University.
She is interested in exploring biobehavioral markers of anxiety across development, particularly during the transition to parenthood.
Connie Yun
Connie completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at McGill University and was the lab coordinator for the TRAC Lab from 2023 to 2025. She is now pursuing a master’s degree in Experimental Psychology within the same lab.
She is interested in how neighborhood characteristics and real-world experiential diversity may influence vulnerability to internalizing psychopathology, particularly among minoritized groups.
Jay Burns
Jay is a first-year clinical PhD student in the TRAC lab. He completed his BScH in Psychology with a minor in Statistics at Queen's University. He is interested in the environmental and social factors that influence the development of anxiety and depression during adolescence.
Funding
Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2025-2026)
Maddie McGregor
Maddie is a first-year clinical PhD student in the TRAC lab. She completed her B.A. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in how biobehavioral correlates of reward processing in adolescent’s interact with stress exposure and influence social functioning as they relate to the development and maintenance of internalizing psychopathology.
Research Assistants
Alumni
Graduate and Postgraduate Researchers
Helena Renault, Ph. D.: Psychology Resident at Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants | Montreal Children's Hospital
Clara Freeman, Ph. D.: Post-doc at Yale University, School of Medicine
Juhyun Park, Ph. D.: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough
Paige Ethridge, Ph.D.: Clinical Psychologist, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Edmonton
Aislinn Sandre, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario
Iulia Banica, Ph.D.: Clinical Psychologist, Ontario Shores Centre of Mental Health Sciences
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Niru N.
Ryan Freedman
Zheyi Li
Yijae Kim
Aralia Mills
Sophie Touma-Sawaya
Joelle Nesdale-Tucker
Aidan Schottler-Raymond
Alexandru Cebotari
Qifan (Tina) Zhang
Katheryn Tu
Erin Pereira
Keira Gallagher
Maya Ladki (Lab Coordinator, Lydon & CASC Lab, McGill University)
Zoe Bishop (Masters in Counselling, McGill University)
Katherine Li
Elisabeth Irvine
Enqi Wang
Leila Rafai
Brigida Bono
Melissa Shemirani (Experimental Psychology, McGill University)
Marc-Antoine Brosseau
Alyssa Bensoussan
Samantha Villedrouin
Chaimaa El Mouslih (Clinical Psychology, McGill University)
Martin Sellier Silva (Research Assistant, Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health)
Loran Carpentier (Clinical Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal)
Seonwoo Hong (Clinical Psychology, University of British Columbia)
Lidie Silva Andres
Anaïs Mortazavi Zadeh
Lara El-Zein
Arianna McCagg
Zeina Moussa
Mila Goulon
Mica Ostry
Sonya Akberdina
Lunaa Hao
Maya Ahia (Clinical Psychology, University of Toronto)
Joelle Schaffer (Clinical Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University)
Jasmine Kotsiopoulus (Master of Arts in Research and Clinical Training in Psychology, Concordia University)
Ghislaine Niyonkuru (Clinical Psychology, University of Ottawa)
Talia Schroeder (lab coordinator, Dr. Sarah Racine's lab, McGill University)
Lina Badran
Helen Liu
Fiona Sewall
Chloe White (Clinical Psychology, Simon Fraser University)
Viveca Lee (research assistant, Eating Disorders Continuum, Douglas Hospital)
Alexandra MacTavish (graduate student, child clinical psychology, University of Windsor)
Kiki Brabander (graduate student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University)
Ella Christiaans (graduate student, Educational Psychology, McGill University)
Fauzia Saiyed (Counseling Psychology Doctoral Student at Lehigh University)
Claire Punturieri (graduate student, Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin)
Ariel Boyle (graduate student, Clinical Psychology, Concordia University)
Iman Lahouaoula (medical student, UBC)
Erin Matsuba (graduate student, psychology, Syracuse University)
Manlu Liu (graduate student, University of British Columbia)
Jamie Borenstein-Laurie (graduate student, Clinical Psychology, Concordia University)
Emma Stewart (graduate student, Clinical Psychology, University of Western Ontario)
Benazir Hodzic-Santor (medical student, University of Toronto)
Insub Kim (graduate student, Stanford University)
Tiana Corovic (law school, University of Toronto)
Agnessa Karapetian (PhD student in cognitive computational neuroscience, Einstein Center for Neurosciences, Berlin)
Julia Ferrone (graduate student, PsyD in School Psychology, Adelphi University)
Nicole Ledwos (graduate student, integrated program in neuroscience, McGill University)
Hazal Ozlen (project manager, Villeneuve lab, the Douglas)
Anne Baptiste (graduate student, Concordia University)
Emily Snook (medical student, University of Toronto)
Mert Kimyaci (research assistant in the Regulation, Affect and Development Lab, McGill University)
Wendy Wang
Sasha Novozhilova
Seffie Yip
David Figeuroa Perez
Jiaqi Zhao
Erica Di Caprio
Veronica Rusu
Emily Demers
Karin Cinalioglu
Charlene Osei-Afrifa
Ruby Atesoglu
Alison Yang
Sarah Bernier
Emilie Hess
Blair Lavery
Dila Bilal
Catherine Labasi-Sammartino
Christine Koppenaal
Samantha Scholes
Sarah Lefebvre
Margot Kelly-Hedrick
Christine Koppenaal
Charles LaPierre
Shannon Dawe
Sarah Sieur
Kelly Cool
Jennifer Burns
Shona Mistry
Sasha Topilova
Zainab Yahya
Bettina Trabelsi
Rachel Shepherd
Katie Mound
Ellie Basra
Oliver Huang