Meet the PERL Lab Team

Amy Roy
Amy Roy is a Professor of Psychology and the director of the Pediatric Emotion Regulation Lab. Dr. Roy received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Temple University. She completed her Pre-Doctoral Clinical Internship at NYU School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital in the Child Track and remained at NYU as a post-doctoral fellow at the Child Study Center. In 2005, Dr. Roy became an Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU Langone School of Medicine where she remained until she came to Fordham in June of 2011. Dr. Roy’s primary research interests are in the neurobiological underpinnings of emotion regulation in children and adolescents.

Molly Barrett

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Maggie Benda
Maggie joined the lab in 2021 and is in the clinical psychology doctoral program. She graduated from George Washington University in 2018 with a BA in Psychology and English. After graduation she worked as a Project Coordinator at the Lab of Developmental Neuroscience at Penn State University. Maggie is interested in researching neurocognitive mechanisms underlying pediatric mental health disorders, such as anxiety and irritability. She is particularly interested in working with adolescents and understanding the development of affective processes (e.g. emotion perception, emotion regulation). Similar to her research interests, Maggie is interested in clinical work with pediatric populations, anxiety disorders, and OCD.

Alex Drury

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Allison Eisenberg

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Ava Moore

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Victoria Mulligan

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Violeta Pekar

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Meryl Rueppel 

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Julia Trexler

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Previous Lab Members