Our Team
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David J. Barker PhD
Dr. Barker received his BS in psychology at Arizona State University in 2008. He subsequently received his MS and PhD in Psychology from Rutgers University before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute on Drug Abuse under the supervision of Marisela Morales. Dr. Barker Joined the Department of Psychology at Rutgers in 2019 as an Assistant Professor. He is also a Core Member of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute and the Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RARC) and an associate member of the graduate faculty for the Program in Neuroscience and Molecular Biosciences.
Graduate Students
Olivia DePasquale- Graduate Student (Fall 2023)
Megan Lyttle- Graduate Student (Fall 2025)
Research Assistants
Allison Bernstein
Annamaria George
Maksim Chupakhin
Rithikaa Rajendran
Daniel Soler
Kamila Sayed
Bianca Kurani
“CJ” Chirantan Joshi
Chris Sebastian-Rubio
Graduate Alumni
Svetlana Bryant- Graduate Student (Fall 2019)
Chris O’Brien- Graduate Student (Fall 2018)
Jennifer Mejaes- Graduate Student (Fall 2019)
Pavan Yecham- Master’s Student (Fall 2020)
Lab Alumni
Rachel Koshy
Juju Ha
Justin Gusovius
Dhruvi Desai
Dasia Johnson
Dylan Durand
Ashley Crawley
Carissa Bruno
Yewon Yang
Harshvir Kaur
Jenna Mariotti
Simrun Sobti
Brooke Tenet
Jessica Opher
Sri Guttikonda
Audrey Terrany
Leah Guerrera
Alan Santhosh
Brandon Martin
China Dix
Brenda Lee
Julia Glace
Bay Gordon
Kelsie Baker
Roshni Vemireddy
Emma Steinbuchel
Carina Pizzano
Samantha Rozatio
Vanshika Bhatia
Uzma Mohammad
Meera Krishnan