Our Team
Full-Time Staff
Lauren Holley, CCLS M.S.
Child life SpecialistChild and Family Data Collection Specialistlmstier@uga.edu |CV| LinkedInPhD Graduate Assistants
Morgan Munoz, Ph.D.
2nd-year PhD Student in Human Development & Family ScienceStudent coordinatormorgan.munoz@uga.edu
Accelerated Program Research Assistants
Kaitlyn Lopes, Double Dawg Student
4th-year Double Dawg Student in Psychology (B.S.) and Human Development and Family Science (M.S.)kal100034@uga.eduUndergraduate Research Assistants
Principal Investigators
Dr. Charles Geier
Lab Co-Director & Principal InvestigatorDr. Geier is a professor of Human Development & Family Science at UGA. His area of research includes understanding the neurodevelopment of brain systems underlying goal-directed and habitual behaviors, and how these systems interact across contexts to impact health and disease.
Co-Investigators
Dr. Kogan is a professor of Human Development & Family Science at UGA. His areas of research includes African American men’s sexual health and substance use in emerging adulthood, as well as evaluating family-centered alcohol prevention programs for rural African American youth.
smkogan@uga.edu | CV
Dr. Koss is the Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at UGA. Her primary research interest is to understand the interplay between social environments and biology to answer the question of how adversity ‘gets under the skin’ to shape mental health during childhood and adolescence.
kalsea.koss@uga.edu | CV
Dr. Sweet is the Gary R. Sperduto Professor in Clinical Psychology in the UGA Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program.
sweet@uga.edu | CV