Lab Members
Lab Director
Evan Kleiman, Ph.D.
Evan Kleiman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy in the School of Public Health. Prior to coming to Rutgers, Dr. Kleiman was a Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2017) and Research Associate at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at George Mason University (2014), completed his clinical psychology internship at Temple University (2014), and received his BA in Psychology from Temple University (2008).
Dr. Kleiman’s work focuses on understanding the everyday occurrence of factors of interest to clinical psychological scientists. He has a specific focus on the everyday lives of individuals at risk for suicide using smartphone and wearable monitoring technology. His work has been published in over 140 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is currently funded by several NIMH grants.
More info: CV (9/2023) | Research Gate | Google Scholar
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Betsy Edershile, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Edershile (Betsy) is a postdoctoral research associate who joined the lab in summer 2023. Betsy is interested in better capturing and understanding interpersonal and affective dynamic patterns that give rise to expressions of psychopathology. For example, some of her work has explored the affective and interpersonal processes associated with narcissistic symptom expression. She is also interested in understanding how affective variability associates with risk for suicide. Betsy leverages multiple techniques in her research, including ecological momentary assessment and experimental methods.
Graduate Students
Kai Kellerman
Kai is a fifth-year graduate student in the clinical psychology program. His primary research interests focus on proximal suicide risk factors and the cognitive mechanisms by which they contribute to increases in suicidal thoughts over short time frames. Additionally, he is interested in the development of suicide risk factors among vulnerable adolescent populations, including sexual and gender minority youth.
Annabelle Mournet
Annabelle is a third-year graduate student in the clinical psychology program. Her primary research interests focus on the use of ecological momentary assessment to investigate suicide risk and protective factors among autistic adults. Additionally, she has a particular interest in the role of social connection as a protective factor against suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
Ellen Wittler
Ellen is a second-year graduate student in the clinical psychology program.
Roscoe Garner
Roscoe is a first-year graduate student in the clinical psychology program. His primary research interests focus on the use of technology-based interventions for suicide risk among adults. Additionally, he is interested in investigating why certain individuals experience suicidal ideation, while others go on to ultimately attempt suicide.
Clinical Psychology Residents
Mariah Hawes-Sousa
Mariah is a clinical psychology resident in the Rutgers UBHC Clinical Psychology Internship Program, doing her minor clinical and research rotations with the lab.
Research Coordinators
Kaileigh Conti
Kaileigh received her B.A. from Boston College in 2020 and her M.A. from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2022. Her research interests include severe mental illness and emotion dysregulation in children and adolescents, as well as treatment methods for this population. She hopes to one day obtain a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and continue to conduct research.
Olivia Lozy
With a dual background in media and psychology, Olivia is interested in the intersection between psychology and technology. She aims to pursue further research in to advance scientific understanding of human interaction with technology and elucidate ways in which modern technology can be engineered to make positive widespread impact. Olivia graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in May 2020.
Hannah Krall
Hannah received her B.A. in Psychology from Skidmore College and after graduating, served as a Research Assistant in the Cognition, Emotion, and Life Experiences (CEL) lab at Butler Hospital/Brown University. Her research interests include identifying acute risk factors for suicidal ideation/behavior and reducing stigma and other barriers to increase access to treatment. In the future, Hannah hopes to pursue her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
Lab Alumni
April Yeager
April Yeager was formerly our lab manager and is now in the PsyD program at Rutgers’ Graduate School of Applied Professional Psychology. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Rutgers University (2017). Prior to joining the lab, April most recently worked as a research assistant for Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and for the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Clinic at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology.
Madison Taylor
Madison joined the lab in the summer of 2020 as a research assistant. She was the primary research coordinator for the E-Manage study and the COVID Skills Study and is currently a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at UC Irvine.
Jeremy Grove, Ph.D.
Jer joined the lab in fall of 2019 as our first postdoctoral associate. He is now an Assistant Professor at Duke University Medical School.