Research Staff

David Bachhuber
Associate Research Specialist
377 Brogden
608-265-4318

I work on MIDUS, a longitudinal study that is examining well-being and its relationship to emotional resilience. My duties include running experimental sessions and assisting with data analysis.

Andy Francis
Associate Research Specialist
A127 Waisman
608-890-0233

I recruit participants and run experimental sessions, as well as assist in data processing on a few different studies.

I am interested in that area explored in research on meditation where the physiological and phenomenological overlap.

Larry Greischar, Ph.D.
Assistant Researcher
371 Brogden
608-262-9944

Larry's website

I research new methods of data analysis and write computer programs to apply them.

Adam Koppenhaver
Associate Research Specialist
377 Brogden
608-265-4318

As an associate research specialist, I recruit participants, run experimental sessions, and help process data for a study that investigates and analyzes the neural mechanisms of deception and for a longitudinal study that examines well-being and its relationship to emotional resilience.

Regina Lapate
Associate Research Specialist
392 Brogden
608-265-4318

My research interest lies in the possibility of reforming the description and assessment of manifestations and disturbances along the spectrum of mental processes. I am attracted to affective neuroscience due to its utilization of a psychophysiological approach to mental disorders as an alternative to an exclusively phenomenological one. Such perspective brings direct implications to the conceptualization and appraisal of health in a broad dimension.

I am especially interested in the relationships between interoceptive abilities, affective chronometry and pain processing. Currently, I am involved in psychophysiological and neuroimaging data acquisition, processing and analysis for the MIDUS (MidLife in the US) and Pain Regulation studies.

Chelsea Riley
Associate Research Specialist
392 Brogden
608-265-4318

As an Associate Research Specialist in the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, I coordinate a psychophysiological study investigating the relation between individual differences in working memory capacity (and other cognitive control measures) with the ability to regulate emotion, pain, and attention. I also run experimental sessions and assist with analyzing data.

Jenna Sheftel
Associate Research Specialist
A125 Waisman
608-265-9118

Drawn to the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience by its unique focus on the connection between the brain and the body, I work primarily on studies concerning meditation practice and its impact, both psychologically and physiologically. Of particular interest to me is the possibility that such research will elucidate mechanisms of resiliency. It is my hope that through rigorous scientific study, these concepts will gain greater acceptance into the Western view of health and healing and facilitate increased well-being. My contribution to this research includes managing research personnel, study coordination and administration, attending study design meetings, data processing and analysis, and recruiting participants.

Prachi Singh
Associate Research Specialist
A128 Waisman
608-265-6564

As an Associate Research Specialist in the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, I am involved with primarily two studies, Wisfam and Cortmr. I help the two projects with running subjects, data collection and processing. I am particularly interested in stress and its role in learning and memory.

Diane Stodola
Associate Research Specialist
T117 Waisman

As an Associate Research Specialist in the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, I am involved with recruiting participants, running subjects, and data processing. I am currently working on studies involving different forms of meditation and their effects on well-being and emotion regulation.

Matt Sutterer
Associate Research Specialist
S117C Waisman
608-263-1069

I assist in preprocessing and collection of medial temporal lobe regions of interest from structural MR images on a variety of developmental, clinical, and cognitive studies. I also help in training others to trace these regions of interest.