qThe 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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Nathan Mathews
PhD Student

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Maren Sundermeier
PhD Student

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Tom Nguyen
Lab Manager

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Connor Henderson
Undergraduate Researcher

Jennifer Chemaly
Undergraduate Researcher

Clara Liang
Undergraduate Researcher

Mariel Kandalaft
Undergraduate Researcher
Fiona Feng 
Undergraduate Researcher

Lia Brahami
Undergraduate Researcher

Maryam Shirichekan
Undergraduate Researcher

Niyati Sareen
Undergraduate Researcher

An Leng
Undergraduate Researcher

Cecily Hoyt
Undergraduate Researcher

Natalia Segal
Undergraduate Researcher

Lab Alumni:

Aviv Emanuel, PhD
Anna  Jos, PhD 
Sean Devine, PhD (Public Health Canada)
Ziqi Fu (UofT)
Ashleigh Brown
Emilie Lespinasse 
Mary Zhang
Katherine Bos
Yunuo Sun
Mira Saad
Ruiying Liu
Yue Zhu (Southwest Unversity)
Tyler Forgione
Jonah Kimmel
Johana Sava
Sasha Nuttall
Jules van de Bospoort (UBC)
Martin Sellier
Doug Dong (PhD Student, Hong Kong University)
Clara Nadeau (PhD Student, UdeM)
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 (University of Waterloo)
Stuart Vine
Tianhui Deng
Asikaer Nadila (HEC)
Yiwei Cao
Stephany Dumas
Camille Bouchard
Emma Kiedyk (University of Victoria)
Sophie Boutin
Iris He
Seffie Yip
Lal Ruby Atesoglu
Sana-Eve Faraji
Winda Hao (MSc, Family Medicine Program, McGill)
Shen Zhang, PhD (German Primate Center)
Shannon Drakes
Gabriela Rey
Merel Schenk (Ghent U)
Alicia Muñiz Jiménez (UNAM)
Dina Furman
Maya Bruni
Jade Gordon
Mélodie Leclerc (UdeM)
Elias German
Amanda Petrogiannis
Sofiia Davtian
Setareh Setayesh
Lillian Yang (Oxford)
Eric Xie (University of Melbourne)
Cassie Peng (University of Pennsylvania)
Elsie Yan (Penn State)
Mahima Gill (Midwestern University in Arizona)
Katrina Ocampo (Renfrew Center for Eating Disorders)
Hin Ngai Fu (UBC)
Mikayla Schkolne
Sophia LoParco (McGill)
Ivey Norton
Ruksana Kazi
Pelin Denecli
Sarah Hammami (James Madison University)
Hugo Moulin (Research Analyst Edelman DXI)
Hanna Davies (Harvard)
Larissa Ferreira Pedrosa (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Ana Eliza Bonilha
Shannon Harrington
Zachary Savelson (Carleton Univesity)
Yun Lu
Deboleena Mazumdar (Data Analyst at TomTom)
Dasha Sandra  (PhD Student, University of Toronto)
David St-Amand (PhD Student, Duke University )


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






Department of Psychology