Faculty

Diogo Almeida, Associate Professor of Psychology; Global Network Associate Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: diogo@nyu.edu
Education: MSc (DEA) Cognitive Science (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Ecole Normale Superieure)...

Research Interests: Neurolinguistics, Language Processing

Stefan Bode, Visiting Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sb10382@nyu.edu
Education: Dipl .Psychology University Goettingen; PhD University Leipzig

Research Interests: Cognitive psychology; decision-making; information-seeking; volition; behavior change

Olivia Cheung, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Global Network Assistant Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: olivia.cheung@nyu.edu
Education: BSSc Chinese University of Hong Kong; PhD Vanderbilt University

Research Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience, Visual Cognition, Categorization, Perceptual Expertise

Shaalan Farouk, Senior Lecturer of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sf144@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London

Daryl Fougnie, Associate Professor of Psychology; Global Network Associate Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: darylfougnie@nyu.edu
Education: BA Albion College; PhD Vanderbilt University

Research Interests: Perception, Memory

PJ Henry, Associate Professor of Psychology; Global Network Associate Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pj.henry@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Wisconsin; PhD University of California Los Angeles

Research Interests: Gender Roles; Masculinity/Femininity; Sexuality; Social Justice

Anne Maass, Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: anne.maass@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Heidelberg (Germany); MA University of Heidelberg; MA Florida State University; PhD...

Research Interests: language and social cognition; stereotyping; psychology of economic inequality

Angela Maitner, Visiting Professor of Psychology Affiliation: Visiting
Email: angela.maitner@nyu.edu
Education: BA Eckerd College; MA University of California, Santa Barbara; PhD University of California, Santa B...

Research Interests: Social identity, culture, social cognition

David Melcher, Program Head, Psychology; Professor of Psychology; Global Network Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: david.melcher@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Rutgers University

Research Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience, Perception, Attention, Working Memory, Eye Movements

Jaime Napier, Associate Professor of Psychology; Global Network Associate Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jaime.napier@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Texas at Austin; PhD New York University

Research Interests: Gender; Inequality; Heteronormativity

Fiona Newell, Visiting Professor of Psychology Affiliation: Visiting
Email: fn2169@nyu.edu
Education: BA Trinity College Dublin; PhD University of Durham

Research Interests: Human Perception; Multisensory Perception: Face, Object, and Scene Recognition

Bas Rokers, Professor of Psychology; Global Network Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rokers@nyu.edu
Education: BA Utrecht University; MA Rutgers University; PhD University of California - Los Angeles

Research Interests: Visual Perception; Motion Processing; Depth Perception; Neuroimaging; Virtual Reality

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Visiting Associate Professor Affiliation: Visiting
Email: Jennifer.Sheehy.Skeffington@nyu.edu
Education: PhD (Psychology), Harvard University; MSc (Social Psychology), London School of Economics, BSc (Hons...

Research Interests: Social Psychology; Poverty; Social Class; Inequality; Ideology; Prejudice; Political Behaviour

Jon Sprouse, Professor of Psychology; Global Network Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jon.sprouse@nyu.edu
Education: AB in Linguistics from Princeton University; PhD in Linguistics from the University of Maryland

Research Interests: Linguistics, Experimental Syntax

Kartik Sreenivasan, Associate Program Head for Undergraduate Studies of Psychology; Associate Professor of Psychology with an Affiliation in Biology; Global Network Associate Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kks4@nyu.edu
Education: BA Yale University; PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Short-term Memory, Working Memory

Andrea Vial, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Global Network Assistant Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: andrea.vial@nyu.edu
Education: BA CUNY-Hunter College; PhD Yale University

Research Interests: Social Psychology, Gender, Stereotyping, Prejudice, Power, Workplace Culture

Robert Volcic, Associate Professor of Psychology; Global Network Associate Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rv50@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, MSc Università degli Studi di Trieste; PhD Utrecht University

Research Interests: Neuroscience, Cognitive Systems

Antje Von Suchodoletz, Associate Professor of Psychology; Global Network Associate Professor of Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: avs5@nyu.edu
Education: Diploma, PhD (Psychology) University of Konstanz; Certificate of Advanced Studies in Child and Youth...

Research Interests: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Caregiver-Child Interactions

Theodore Waters, Associate Professor of Psychology; Global Network Associate Professor of Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: theo.waters@nyu.edu
Education: Honours BSc University of Toronto; MA Emory University; PhD Emory University

Research Interests: Attachment and autobiographical memory