Andrew defensed his PhD dissertation titled "A Multi-method Assessment of the Impact of Stress on Families’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic" in 2023. He completed his Pre-Doctoral residency with the Northern Ontario Psychology Internship Consortium (NORPIC) in Thunder Bay. He received his Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Biology for Health Science at the University of Toronto before obtaining his M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology at Western.  His research interests broadly include biomarkers of stress (e.g., cortisol, telomere lengths) and sex differences as indicators of risk for psychopathology in a developmental context.

Ola defended her PhD dissertation titled “Childhood Irritability: A developmental psychopathology perspective” in 2023. She completed her Pre-Doctoral residency at the St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. Ola’s research interests include understanding interactions between children’s developing temperament/personality and the early caregiving environment to shaping later outcomes, with a specific focus on childhood irritability. She has a particular interest in applying her developmental psychopathology training in youth mental health. She now holds a temporary position as a Psychologist in Supervised Practice at the Rob Joyce Children’s Health Center in Hamilton, Ontario, after which she plans to complete a clinical Post-doctoral fellowship at Stoney Brook University, New York.

Matt defended his PhD thesis "Neuroimaging Depression Risk in a Sample of Never-Depressed Children" in 2021. He completed his Pre-Doctoral residency with the London Clinical Psychology Residency Consortium. With a background in cell & molecular biology, counselling psychology, and psychosis research, Matt used his doctoral training to merge his interests in biology and psychopathology. Specifically, Matt is interested in understanding neurobiological vulnerabilities to psychopathology. In addition to interests in temperament/personality, internalizing disorders, and traumatic stress, he has increasingly applied modern neuroimaging techniques to answer questions regarding the mechanisms which may lead to psychopathology. Matthew is now working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Queen's University

Jennifer joined the lab as an M.Sc. student in Clinical Psychology in 2019. In 2021, she successfully defended her thesis "Validating an Observational Coding System for the Dominance Behavioural System (DBS) in Childhood". 

Pan joined the lab in 2017 as a postdoctoral fellow with the support of Western Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fund. After receiving her PhD degree in social cognitive neuroscience from McGill University in 2015, she completed a two-year postdoctoral training at the Child Study Centre at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interest is centred on the developmental mechanism of psychopathology, with a particular focus on how temperament, cognitive processes, and familial environment contribute to the development of internalizing problems. ​Pan now holds a faculty position at the University of Alberta.

Christina joined the lab in 2018 as a BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellow. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Notre Dame, and completed her clinical internship at the Charleston Consortium in South Carolina. Her research examines mechanisms at multiple levels of analysis that promote socio-emotional functioning in the contexts of neurodevelopmental disorders (autism spectrum disorder) and child maltreatment. More broadly, her research seeks to reduce disparities in the identification and treatment of individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families. In 2019, Christina left the lab to take up a faculty position in the psychology department at Virginia Tech.

Sarah successfully defended her doctoral thesis in 2017. Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Vulnerability to Depression in Middle Childhood: The Role of Pubertal Development and Cortisol Reactivity in Risk for Depression".

Yuliya successfully defended her doctoral thesis in June 2016, and completed her predoctoral residency at IWK Health Centre in Halifax, NS (child and adolescent clinical psychology track). She then took a position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Advanced Measurement of Personality and Psychopathology, University of Notre Dame. Her doctoral research focused on developmental psychopathology of depression by examining pathways from the early vulnerability factors to emerging depressive symptoms via intermediary mechanisms. Studies of the nature and structure of child temperament using multi-method and multi-informant approaches were also a part of her doctoral research program. Her post-doctoral research focused on expanding the alternative approach to conceptualizing personality disorders from the perspective of impairments in personality functioning and pathological personality traits. Yuliya now holds a faculty position at the University of Alberta.

Katie Kryski successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled ''Biological and contextual correlates of cortisol reactivity in early childhood" at Western in 2014. She completed her Psychology Residency at the Alberta Children's Hospital., and has since founded a private practice psychology clinic in British Columbia.

Haroon successfully defended his Ph.D entitled ''Molecular genetics of HPA axis reactivity'' in 2014. He later took on a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa's Department of Psychiatry, and was awarded a prestigious CIHR Fellowship to support his project entitled "Identification of rare de novo mutations in bipolar disorder: A whole-exome sequencing study."  Haroon then secured a faculty position at Forman Christian College in Pakistan.