Phil Baldwin (CV) 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. His current projects include imaging small midbrain structures and developing frameworks for analyzing social exchanges. Phil received an undergraduate degree in Physics from Princeton and MS and Ph.D in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has spent time working in a corporate environment at Schlumberger Doll research and the former Bell Laboratories.

Meghana Bhatt (CV) 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.

Kimberlee D'Ardenne (CV) 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.

Jonathan Downar (CV) came to the HNL in October of 2008. He is interested in taking behavioral tasks from neuroeconomics and social cognitive neuroscience and adapting them for clinical use. He hopes to use these tasks to discover new indications for existing psychiatric medications. He received his Ph.D. in functional neuroimaging at the University of Toronto, then completed his M.D. at the University of Calgary before returning to the University of Toronto for residency training in psychiatry, which he will complete in 2010. He is also involved in public science education and was a screenwriter and scientific advisor on the recent IMAX film "Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France".

Ulrich Kirk (CV) became a member of the HNL in September 2008. He is interested in studying the neural effects of cognitive variables on valuation and decision-making particular in relation to aesthetic experience. Furthermore he is interested in studying the pathologies surrounding valuation and choice such as anhedonia. Prior to becoming a member of the lab, Ulrich graduated from University of Aarhus, Denmark with a MA in literature and aesthetics. An interest in the neural underpinnings of aesthetics enabled him to receive his Ph.D. at the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London, where he studied the modularity of aesthetic processing and perception using fMRI.

Ken Kishida (CV) 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.

Terry Lohrenz (CV) 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.

Dr Lane Strathearn (CV) 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).