People

Raquel Aguilar

raguilar@fas.harvard.edu

Research Assistant, Psychology Department

Raquel Aguilar graduated from the University of Tampa in 2024 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Criminal Justice. Prior to joining the Nock Lab, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Memory Lab and the Orban Lab, conducting...

Amy Ahn

yahn@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Research Director, Nock Lab

Dr. Amy Ahn is an Associate Research Director in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She received a B.S. in Human Development from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Miami. She is interested...

Chelsea Boccagno, PhD

cboccagno@g.harvard.edu

Post-Doc, Harvard Psychology

Chelsea Boccagno is a T32 post-doctoral researcher working in the Nock Lab, CAUSALab (Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), and Dauten Family Center for Bipolar Treatment Innovation (Department of Psychiatry...

Mary Buntrock

mbuntrock@fas.harvard.edu

Faculty Support Specialist, Department of Psychology

Mary is a faculty support specialist in the Psychology Department. She helps in the administrative duties related to the lab's research. Her background is primarily in a mix of English and Mathematics. Outside of work she enjoys reading and scuba diving.

Franchesca (Franckie) Castro-Ramirez, M.A.

framirez@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Student, Department of Psychology

Franckie is a doctoral candidate of clinical science at Harvard with a background in systems neural science. The central theme of her research is on how violence exposure might lead people to harmful coping behavior. Using theory and tools from...

Alexis Christie

achristie@fas.harvard.edu

Research Assistant, Department of Psychology

Alexis is a research assistant in the Nock Lab who graduated from Stonehill College in 2021 with a B.A. in Psychology and Elementary Education. She previously worked as an undergraduate research assistant studying ACE’s, retention, and dropout rates at...

Shauna Contreras

scontreras@fas.harvard.edu

Research Assistant, Psychology Department

Shauna graduated from Princeton University in 2026 with a B.A. in Psychology and minors in Cognitive Science. Prior to joining the Nock Lab, her undergraduate research focused on investigating the cultural transmission of emotion regulation strategies via...

Christian Cortes

ccortes@fas.harvard.edu

Research Assistant, Psychology Department

Christian earned his B.S. in Psychology with a specialization in Clinical Psychology from UC San Diego, where he was selected as a STARTneuro Scholar. In Dr. Risbrough's Lab, he contributed to research examining posttraumatic stress among military service...

Becky Fortgang, Ph.D.

Instructor, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Research Associate, Department of Psychology

Becky's research program focuses on transdiagnostic processes of self-control and effort. In one line of research, she investigates the heritability and structure of these traits and their prevalence and relationships across genetically related disorders...

Katie Gebbia

kgebbia@fas.harvard.edu

Research Assistant, Psychology Department

Katie Gebbia graduated from Vassar College in 2024 with a B.A. in Psychological Science and English. Prior to joining the Nock Lab, she was involved with social and developmental research regarding negotiation during play, barriers to help-seeking in...

Justice Herrera

justiceherrera@fas.harvard.edu

Research Assistant, Psychology Department

Justice Herrera graduated from San Diego State University in 2024 with a B.A. in Psychology. Before joining the Nock lab, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant at SDSU, focusing on body image and its impact on health behaviors such as eating...

Felipe Herrmann

Graduate Student, Department of Psychology

Felipe Herrmann is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, advised by Dr. Matthew Nock. Before Harvard, he spent a year in Madrid, Spain, as a Fulbright Research Scholar at Fundación Jiménez Díaz and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His research...