We are excited to officially congratulate Andrea on the successful defense of her dissertation on behavioral and labor economics. She has done amazing work over the years and we are so proud of her! We wish you the very best as you take up your new role, Dr. Andrea Kiss!
The Huettel lab is proud to announce that Alex Breslav has successfully defended his dissertation!! This comes after years of hard work and collaboration with the Zucker lab among other collaborators. Congratulations to him and we wish him the very best in his future endeavors. Shout out to Dr. Alex Breslav!!!
Abby presenter her research on curiosity at the 2021 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Virtual Conference. She used a novel paradigm to show that states of high curiosity prioritize the process of information gathering over immediate uncertainty resolution. Congrats to Abby!
After five years of incredibly hard work and scholarship, Kelsey finally defends her dissertation and shall now and forevermore be known as Dr. Kelsey!! A huge congratulations to you and we wish you all the best in your future endeavors!
Congratulations to Mel for winning a best poster award (2nd place) at the 2019 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Decision Neuroscience (ISDN) conference! The poster was titled Oversampling of minority categories drives misestimation of group compositions, and co-authors included Miruna Cotet (soon to be in graduate school at Ohio State!), Rachel Kranton, and Scott Huettel.
Derrick is a graduate student with the Duke Bioethics and Science Policy program under the Duke Graduate School and the current Lab Manager for the Huettel Laboratory.
Before Duke, he was a Neuroscience major at Michigan State University under the Mastercard Foundation Scholars program. His pastimes involve Non-profit work, cooking, and photography.
Graduate student Abby Hsiung successfully defends her Major Area Paper, a milestone in pursuit of the doctoral degree. The Huettel Lab and the Adcock Lab celebrate her achievements!
Last week we said goodbye to Miruna Cotet. Miruna was conducting research in the Huettel Lab as a visiting Master’s student from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Miruna completed her thesis and is beginning her Ph.D. studies, working with Dr. Ian Krajbich, at the University of Ohio in the Fall.
Good luck Miruna!
The lab celebrated many accomplishments at a BBQ in Duke Forest. Several lab members will be leaving for new positions: Nikki Sullivan (Asst. Prof, London School Econ.), Libby Jenke (Asst. Prof., U. Houston), Dianna Amasino (Post-Doc, U. Amsterdam), Samyukta Dore (med school, Cleveland Clinic), and Miruna Cotet (grad school, Ohio State). Congrats to all!
Kelsey’s new paper on modeling dynamic choice behavior has been published in Nature Communications! Congratulations to Kelsey on her first paper, which reflects a collaboration between the Huettel and Pearson laboratories.