The Otto Lab
Department of Psychology at McGill University

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The lab will be considering taking on a PhD student in Fall 2024. For information about the Psychology PhD program, consult this page . If you are interested in the possibility of doing postodoctoral work in the lab, please  get in touch. Please do NOT directly email lab members to apply for graduate study or to inquire about paid researcher positions.

Ross Otto, PhD

Principal Investigator

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Aviv Emanuel, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher

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Anna  Jos, MA
PhD Student
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Nathan Mathews
PhD Student

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Maren Sundermeier
PhD Student

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Ziqi Fu
Lab Manager

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Sophie Murray
Undergraduate Researcher


Mélodie Leclerc
Undergraduate Researcher

Maya Bruni
Undergraduate Researcher

Jade Gordon
Undergraduate Researcher

Jennifer Chemaly
Undergraduate Researcher

Emilie Lespinasse
Undergraduate Researcher

Connor Henderson
Undergraduate Researcher

Katherine Bos
Undergraduate Researcher

Clara Liang
Undergraduate Researcher

Dina Furman
Undergraduate Researcher

Mariel Kandalaft
Undergraduate Researcher

Mary Zhang
Undergraduate Researcher


Ashleigh Brown
Undergraduate Researcher

Mira Saad
Undergraduate Researcher

Tom Nguyen
Undergraduate Researcher

Yunuo Sun
Undergraduate Researcher

Ruiying Liu
Undergraduate Researcher

Natalia Segal
Undergraduate Researcher

 Merel Schenk
Visiting Student

Alicia Muñiz Jiménez
Visiting Student

Lab Alumni:

Sean Devine, PhD (Public Health Canada)
Yue Zhu (Southwest Unversity)
Tyler Forgione
Jonah Kimmel
Johana Sava
Sasha Nuttall
Jules van de Bospoort (UBC)
Martin Sellier
Doug Dong
Clara Nadeau
Derrick Zhang 
Vicki Yang (UPenn)
Marin Bergeron
Kevin da Silva Castanheira, PhD (Behavioral scientist at Intact)
Mario Bogdanov, PhD (Postdoc at Harvard Medicine)
Aashiha Babu
Xin Yi Liang
Echo Wang (UPenn)
Sally Nakazawa
Alara Akal
Tyler Dhaliwal
Aditi Singhal
Manon Palmer (UdeM)
Runyi Zou
Alexa Nordine (Clinical Psychology at University of Waterloo)
Stuart Vine
Tianhui Deng
Asikaer Nadila (HEC)
Yiwei Cao
Stephany Dumas
Camille Bouchard
Emma Kiedyk
Sophie Boutin
Iris He
Seffie Yip
Lal Ruby Atesoglu
Sana-Eve Faraji
Winda Hao
Shen Zhang (Bejing Normal University)
Shannon Drakes
Gabriela Rey
Elias German
Amanda Petrogiannis
Sofiia Davtian
Setareh Setayesh
Lillian Yang (Oxford)
Eric Xie
Cassie Peng (University of Pennsylvania)
Elsie Yan (Clincal Psychology at Penn State)
Mahima Gill (Medical School at Midwestern University in Arizona)
Katrina Ocampo (Renfrew Center for Eating Disorders)
Hin Ngai Fu (UBC)
Mikayla Schkolne
Sophia LoParco (IPN student)
Ivey Norton
Ruksana Kazi
Pelin Denecli
Sarah Hammami (James Madison University)
Hugo Moulin (Research Analyst Edelman DXI)
Hanna Davies (Masters of Education at Harvard)
Larissa Ferreira Pedrosa (Graduated Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Ana Eliza Bonilha
Shannon Harrington
Zachary Savelson (Carleton Univesity)
Yun Lu
Deboleena Mazumdar (Data Analyst at TomTom)
Dasha Sandra  (Mastesr of Psychiatry)
David St-Amand (Masters of Neuroscience at McGill)


Current & Past Collaborators:


Micah Goldwater
Catherine Hartley
Ken Norman
Darrell Worthy
Ida Momennejad
Art Markman
Todd Gureckis
Joey Dunsmoor
Brad Doll
Signy Sheldon
Jelena Ristic
Ben Eppinger
Candace Raio
Xavier Noël
Paul Glimcher
Brad Love
Elizabeth Phelps 
Steve Fleming 
Sam Gershman
Claire Gillan
Nathaniel Daw
Oriel  FeldmanHall
Johannes Eichstaedt   Aaron Heller
Brad Knox
Madeleine Sharp
Anna Konova
Rose Bagot






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