Amishi P. Jha, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Miami

ajha AT psy.miami.edu

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Amishi Jha Amishi Jha, Lab Director
Research Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention and Working Memory
Neural Effects of Mental Training with mindfulness-based techniques

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
ajha AT psy.miami.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellows

POSTED FALL 2011: Postdoctoral fellowship on the neural effects of Mindfulness Training (Laboratory of Amishi Jha)

Applications are invited for a multi-year fellowship position investigating the Neural Effects of Mindfulness Training in the Laboratory of Amishi Jha at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida. The successful applicant will have an opportunity to play an important role in a funded research project investigating the neural effects (with EEG/ERP/FMRI) of short-form mindfulness training on attention and working memory in adults.

Essential skills include a thorough knowledge of human electrophysiology (EEG/ERP) and/or functional MRI and structural MRI techniques, fantastic organizational and computational abilities, as well as the ability to work well in a research team. While this position requires technical sophistication, it is more suited for someone who is scientifically interested in neuroplasticity and its relation to attention, working memory, and mindfulness training, than someone with a strict methods orientation. The successful applicant will hold a PhD in neuroscience or psychology (cognitive, affective, or social neuroscience emphasis).

Please submit applications by October 15, 2011 with a planned start date of Jan 1, 2012.

Please send applications (via e-mail) including cover letter, CV, the names and addresses of three referees, in one pdf file, to the Principal Investigator, Dr Amishi P. Jha (ajha @ psy.miami.edu).

Graduate Students

Devika Jutagir Devika Jutagir
Research Interests: Mechanisms by which stress impacts mental and physical health outcomes; cognitive neuroscience of working memory and resilience.
d.jutagir AT umiami.edu

POSTED FALL 2011: Call for new graduate students in the Jha Lab

Dr. Jha will be accepting 1-2 stellar graduate students to join the lab in the Fall of 2012. Candidates who have superb academic records, prior experience in cognitive neuroscience research, and an interest in receiving their graduate training in topics involving the neural bases of resilience, attention, working memory, and mindfulness should apply to the Dept. of Psychology at the University of Miami in the 2011-2012 application cycle.

 

Research Assistants

Nina Rostrup Nina Rostrup
Research Interests: How mindfulness meditation affects cognitive control and emotional regulation.
n.rostrup AT miami.edu

Justin Dainer-Best Justin Dainer-Best
Research Interests: Attentional control of working memory and the effect of resilience on attention. Psychophysiological and ERP correlates of attention, emotion, and stress. Sustained attention; statistical modeling.
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
j.dainerbest AT miami.edu

Cristina Garcia Cristina García, UM ’11
Research Interests: Neural mechanisms of conflict adaptation and mindfulness training.
cristinag AT miami.edu

Suzanne Parker Suzanne Parker
Research Interests: The neural effects of mindfulness practice, especially regarding interpersonal attunement.
sparker AT psy.miami.edu

 

Undergraduate Students

Merissa Goolsarran Merissa Goolsarran, UM ’13
Research Interests: Neural correlates of stress, attention, and resilience in relation to military psychology.
Major: Neuroscience.
Zachary Kornblum Zachary Kornblum, UM ’13
Research Interests: Seeing how mindfulness meditation affects emotional regulation and resiliency.
Major: Neuroscience/Neuropsychology.
Christina Robinson Christina Robinson, UM ’13
Research Interests: I’m interested in the impact of mindfulness on cognitive functioning and emotion regulation as well as the correlates of working memory and intelligence.
Major: Neuroscience.
Adam Burton Adam Burton, UM ’14
Research Interests: The neural effects of mindfulness training on cognitive functioning, particularly in relation to working memory and executive function.
Major: Neuroscience.
Emily Brudner Emily Brudner, UM ’15
Research Interests: I’m interested in how the biological functions of the brain shape and affect human behavior, specifically in terms of neurological disorders. Also, I’m interested in exploring the effect of mindfulness and meditation on attention, specifically in relation to education.
Major: Undeclared Arts & Sciences Pre-Med interested in Neuroscience.
Phillip Chan Phillip Chan, UM ’15
Research Interests: Neural effects of stress and daily stimuli and how to counteract it through meditation and mindfulness practice. How events of daily life effect neurobiology, thoughts, attention, and emotions.
Major: Neuroscience.

 

Lab Alumni

Toby Elliman Toby Elliman
Anastasia Kiyonaga Anastasia Kiyonaga
Graduate student, Egner Lab, Duke University
Brian Lakey Brian Lakey

Amanda Codd Amanda Codd
Clinical Writer, ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA
Alicia Hayes Alicia Hayes
Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania Counseling Psychology program
Pauline Baniqued Pauline Baniqued
Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prithi Chandra Prithi Chandra
Undergraduate, New York University
Brandon Chen Brandon Chen, Bioengineering Independent Study Student
Research Interests: Investigating if mind-wandering can be reduced with mental training.

bchen4 AT seas.upenn.edu

Katrina Fincher Katrina Fincher
Research Assistant to Dr. Paul Rozin, University of Pennsylvania
Charvi Ganatra Charvi Ganatra
Undergraduate, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Goldstein Jonathan Goldstein
Medical Student, University of Connecticut
Dan Greif Dan Greif
Mental health counselor, Boston, MA
Nina Hsu Nina Hsu
Nina graduated from Duke University in 2006. While in Amishi’s lab, she piloted a project on the effects of mood on working memory. Now a Neuroscience graduate student in Sharon Thompson-Schill’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania, she is using behavioral and fMRI methods to investigate the storage and organization of semantic memory in the brain.
Eranda R. Jayawickreme Eranda R. Jayawickreme, M.A.
Eranda is a Psychology graduate student in Dr. Martin Seligman’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Eranda’s first-year master’s thesis, which was co-supervised by Dr. Jha, examined the effects of positive stimuli on attention and working memory.
Jennifer Katz Jennifer Katz
J.D., University of California Los Angeles
Jason Krompinger Jason Krompinger
Jason is currently a graduate student in the University of Delaware clinical Psychology program. He uses ERPs to study cognition and emotion. He is specifically interested in attentional biases in mood disorders as reflected in ERPs that index motivated attention and error processing. Visit Website
Minjoo Kweon Minjoo Kweon, Psychology Student
Research Interests: Influence of mindfulness training on attention.

minjoo AT sas.upenn.edu

Audrey Lustig Audrey Lustig
Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Lauren Mancuso Lauren Mancuso
Research Assistant to Dr. David Wolk, University of Pennsylvania
Anish Mehta Anish Mehta
Medical Student, Case Western Reserve University
Zev Rosen Zev Rosen
Graduate Student, Neuroscience at Columbia
Deepak Sambhara Deepak Sambhara
Research Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline
Gopal Shah Gopal Shah
Project manager, Epic systems, Madison, WI
Danielle Spiegel Danielle Spiegel
Law student, New York University
Kartik Sreenivasan Kartik Sreenivasan
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Curriculum Vitae – PDF
Alice Tang Alice Tang
Medical student, University of Vermont
Ling Wong Ling Wong
Graduate Student, Neuroscience at UC-Davis