Alumni
Katherine Damme, PhD
Katherine Damme, PhD, is an Assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas. Her work leverages how risk for psychopathology accumulates over neurodevelopment to identify mechanisms for intervention that promote healthy development. Dr. Damme completed her undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University in psychology and philosophy before completing the Intramural Research Training Award at the National Institutes of Mental Health. She then completed a PhD in psychology: brain, behavior, and cognition at Northwestern University under Robin Nusslock. For her post-doctoral training Dr. Damme worked with Dr. Vijay Mittal as a fellow of the Innovations in Developmental Sciences in the training program ‘Mental Health, Earlier: Transdiagnostic, Transdisciplinary, Translational Training Program in Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms of Psychopathology’.
Paul Eastwick, PhD
Paul Eastwick, PhD (Northwestern, 2009), is currently a Professor of Psychology at UC Davis, where he serves as the head of the Social-Personality Psychology program and the director of the Attraction and Relationships Research Laboratory. His new book, BONDED BY EVOLUTION: The New Science of Love and Connection, is a groundbreaking look at the science of attraction and compatibility, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about how human mating evolved—to demonstrate the real keys to romantic attachment. Paul and Northwestern Psychology Professor Eli Finkel continue to collaborate to this day, primarily on their podcast Love Factually, where they analyze rom-coms and romantic dramas from the perspective of relationship science.
Tina Gupta, PhD
Tina Gupta, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University and her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on understanding the development and maintenance of emotional processes in adolescents at risk for severe mental illnesses (SMI), such as schizophrenia. In addition to examining the processes that contribute to emotional disruptions and increased risk for SMI, she investigates protective factors that promote resilience among vulnerable adolescents and contributes to ongoing projects related to intervention development. Her work is grounded in the context of adolescent development processes, with a strong emphasis on the practical, real-world implications of her findings.