Director
Michelle Voss, PhD
Staff
Emery Styron
Chris Oehler , MS
Olivia Hinklin
Megan Hilliard
Sydney Andersen
Graduate Students
Liam Campbell
Jess Frame
Bryan Madero
Giovanna Novi
Post Doctoral Scholars
Adriana Rivera-Dompenciel, PhD.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Hollie Byrne
Zak Gilliam
Tori Hedley
Ava Hunt
Aadya Karna
Meg Mann
Esha Patel
DeAndre Steger
Allison Stiegel
Jackson Zimmerman
Alumni
Kelsey Baller
Kelsey Baller, former post-baccalaureate research assistant and Biopsychosocial Determinants of Brain Health project manager, is working toward her masters and doctorate degree in the clinical psychology PhD program at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Madison Blevins
Madison, a former post baccalaureate research assistant, is working as a research assistant in Human Auditory Neuroscience Group at the University of Iowa, under Dr. Inyong Choi.
Rachel Clark Cole, PhD
Dr. Clark Cole, a former graduate student and post-doctoral scholar is a research scientist at the University of Minnesota Neuromodulation Research Center, Department of Neurology.
Hayley Chappell
Hayley, a former post baccalaurate research associate BOOST PA exercise specialist, is a first year student at the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine.
Will Daniels
Will, a former EXTEND trial exercise specialist, is a third year student and tutoring associate at the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine.
Chase Hamilton
Chase, a former project manager and undergraduate research assistant, is racquet sports program manager at Lakeshore Sport & Fitness in the Chicago area, where he also serves as senior research coordinator at the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research, program manager at the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Shivangi Jain, PhD
Shivangi, a former post-doctoral scholar, is a senior research scientist in the Neuroscience Division of Advent Health, Orlando, Florida.
Myungjin Jung, PhD
Myungjiin (MJ) Jung, a former post-doctoral scholar, is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation at the University of North Texas in Denton. He continues to research the effects of acute and chronic exercise on cognitive function and mentors master’s and doctoral students interested in studying the relationship between exercise and cognitive function.
James Kent, PhD
James, a former graduate scholar, is a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Iowa in 2019.
Craig Martins
Craig, a former undergraduate research assistant, is pursuing his masters degree at the University of Tennessee's Sport Psychology and Motor Behavior program.
Julia Morrison
Julia is an occupational therapist for Benedictine short-term rehabilitation centers in Minnesota.
Abby O'Deen, MHA, BSN
Abby, former EXTEND trial exercise specialist, is senior associate director, clinical enterprise, University of Iowa Health Care.
Meredith (Hoyland) Palm, PhD
A former HBC Lab manager, Meredith earned her PhD in psychology at Baylor University. Her research focused on risk and protective factors for adolescent substance use. She has been in a teaching track position at Baylor since 2022.
Marco Pipoly, PhD
Marco, a former graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, earned his PhD at Iowa in 2024. He is a post-doctoral scholar with Dr. Gagan Wig at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he continues research focused on the cognitive reserve hypothesis in executive function.
Alei Rehovsky
Alei, a former post baccalaureate research assistant, is working toward her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.
Lauren Riest, PharmD
Lauren, a former BIKE trial exercise specialist, is drug policy manager for University of Iowa Health Care.
Arianna Rigon, PhD
Arianna, a former graduate scholar, is an assistant professor at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, in the Department of Communication Disorders, College of Health Professions. She received an MS in cognitive neuroscience in 2013 from the University of Padua and earned her PhD in neuroscience in 2017 from the University of Iowa. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2019.
Arshaq Saleem
Arshaq is a fourth year student at the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine.
Elaine Schultz, PhD
Elaine, former lab project manager for the PACR and ALERT studies, serves as inpatient neuropsychologist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago. She earned her PhD in clinical neuropsychology at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago.
• Matthew Sodoma, PhD
Dr. Sodoma, a former graduate scholar at the Health, Brain & Cognition Lab, is a data scientist with Vermeer Corporation, an agricultural and industrial equipment manufacturer in Pella, Iowa. He earned his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Iowa in 2023. He did additional research as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Merry Mani in the UI Department of Radiology before joining Vermeer.
Jenna Springer
A former undergraduate then post-baccalaureate research assistant, Jenna is a PhD student and a graduate teaching assistant in the University of Iowa Department of Health, Sport, and Human Physiology. She is also pursuing a certificate in College teaching.
Mathew Sutterer, PhD
Matt, a former University of Iowa graduate research assistant and post-doctoral scholar, serves as a program director at the National Institute of Aging at the National Institutes of Health, based in Washington, DC. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Wisconsin in 2007 and his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Iowa in 2015.
Anna Thompson
Anna, a former undergraduate research assistant, is 5th year graduate student in the Kennedy Neuroimaging of Aging and Cognition Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Tuan Truong
Tuan, a former research assistant and research fellow, is a third year-student at the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine .
Christopher Wendel, PhD
Chris, former b project manager 2015-2017 for the PACR and ALERT clinical trials, is a licensed psychologist specializing in behavioral sleep medicine and behavioral health at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Tim Weng, PhD
Tim, formerly a graduate research assistant , is a research engineering scientist in the Dell Medical School Neurology Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his BS in psychology at the University of Illinois-Urbana in 2011 and completed his PhD at the University of Iowa in 2018, followed by post-doctoral research at the Dell Medical School.
Conner Wharff
Conner, a former undergraduate research assistant, is a clinical/healthcare research specialist and hyperpolarizer lab manager for the Fain Pulmonary Imaging Lab at University of Iowa Health Care. He also serves as research imaging technologist for the Magnetic Resonance Research Facility within the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging.