Phil Baldwin is trained in theoretical physics and applied mathematics and has been interacting with HNL since 2003. Phil has collaborated on various projects at HNL, including dopamine release, financial math and functional MRI. Phil received an undergraduate degree in Physics from Princeton and MS and Ph.D in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Meghana Bhatt came to the HNL in 2007. She is primarily interested in neuroeconomics, particularly pertaining to the neural basis of belief formation in social and strategic contexts. She graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in Math in 2000 and worked briefly as a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank. She then received her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in Social Science where she began using neuroscience to study the problems of belief formation and perception in strategic games as well as in response to cultural cues such as advertising.
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Kimberlee D'Ardenne joined the HNL in June 2008 and is interested in studying reward processing in humans by using functional MRI to image the brainstem dopamine system. Kim graduated from Davidson College in Davidson, NC, with a B.S. in Chemistry. She then moved up north to Princeton University where she completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Neuroscience with Dr. Jonathan D. Cohen.
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Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez became a member of the HNL in August of 2007. He is interested in modern neuroimaging techniques including integrating computational neuroscience models into imaging experiment analysis. Before coming to the lab, Manuel graduated from the Universidad de Guadalajara with a Licenciatura (B.S. equivalent degree) in physics. Later on, he received a Ph.D. in optics from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester, that included thesis work for more than three years as a visiting graduate student at Oxford University. His doctorate work dealt with optimized quantum state tomography for photonic qubits.
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Ken Kishida joined the HNL in August of 2006 and is interested in studying the neural mechanisms that give rise to our sense of autonomous agency and phenomenal experience. Furthermore, he is interested in understanding the neurobehavioral consequences of 1st person, conscious experience during complex social interactions; for instance, how two individuals can can have the same sensory stimulation and yet come away with polar-opposite perceptions and behavioral reactions. Ken received his Ph.D. from the department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine where his thesis entailed the investigation of cellular sources of reactive oxygen species required during hippocampal signal transduction, synaptic plasticity and hippocampus-dependent memory. He received his B.S. in genetics from the University of California, in Davis.
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Terry Lohrenz came to the HNL in November 2003. Terry is currently working on neuroeconomic experiments, and computational neuroscience modeling. After graduating from Harvard with an A.B. in Physics, he received a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Mathematics. Following a G.C. Evans Instructorship of Mathematics at Rice University, Terry held several positions at Duke Energy and Enron Corporation, and is a principal in a quantitative hedge-fund.
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Brandi Mattson joined the HNL in December 2007. She is primarily interested in the role of dopamine in higher order cognitive processes, learning and memory, and decision-making, and currently working on human imaging studies of neurological disorders and a collaborative project investigating rodent behavioral paradigms with neurochemical and electrophysiological assays. Brandi earned a BA in Psychology at University of Southern Colorado and subsequently a PhD in Neuroscience from the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University where she created rodent decision-making behavioral paradigm utilizing competing reinforcing stimuli. Prior to joining the lab, she completed additional post-doctoral training at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Dr Lane Strathearn is a developmental pediatrician who received his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He did a fellowship in child protection and neurodevelopment at the Mater Children's Hospital in Brisbane before coming to Baylor College of Medicine in 2001 for a fellowship in developmental pediatrics. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Research Fellow at the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory.

Dr Strathearn's research interest is in the neurobiology of mother-infant attachment, and neurodevelopmental disabilities such as autism. He is supported by a K23 grant from National Institute of Health (K23 HD043097), and a grant from the Child Health Research Center: Pediatrics Mentored Research Program (K12 HD41648).
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