Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
The University of Georgia
Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | mherzberg@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Infant and Child Development, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Networks, Neuroscience, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
website | shana.adise@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Cognition; Education and Learning; Experimental Methods; Food & Nutrition; Genetics and Epigenetics; Geographic Information Systems; Infant and Child Development; Infant and Maternal Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Neuroscience; Obesity; Physical Health and Well-being; Psychophysiology; STEM; Substance Use and Addiction
Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
website | allan.tate@uga.edu
Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Computational Methods, Diversity, Environment and Ecosystems, Exercise, Food & Nutrition, Immigration, Infant and Child Development, Infant and Maternal Health, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Physical Health and Well-being, Prevention and Implementation Science, Risk Behaviors, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
Associate Professor, Psychology
website | ashley.sanders@uga.edu
Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Diversity, Environment and Ecosystems, Gender, Genetics and Epigenetics, Infant and Child Development, Infant and Maternal Health, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
website | dustin.chacon@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Cognition, Experimental Methods, Infant and Child Development, Neuroscience
Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
website | daehwan@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Experimental Methods, Higher Education, Infant and Child Development, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Organizations, STEM, Work and Occupations
Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | liwei.zhang@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Infant and Child Development, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Violence and Injury
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
website | dangibbs@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Child well-being; Professional decision-making; Foster care; Data science; Social work and the law
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
website | erin.hamel@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Early childhood teaching; Workplace supports; Education quality
Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Science
2023-2025 Grant Development Program Participant
website | niyantri.ravindran@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Parent-child interactions; Emotion socialization; Emotion regulation; Physiological responses to stress; Dynamic methods
